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Scissor vs Cutter - What's the difference?

scissor | cutter |

As nouns the difference between scissor and cutter

is that scissor is (rare) one blade on a pair of scissors while cutter is a person or device that cuts (in various senses).

As a verb scissor

is to cut using, or as if using scissors.

scissor

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (rare) One blade on a pair of scissors.
  • (noun adjunct) Used in certain noun phrases to denote a thing resembling the action of scissors, as scissor kick'', ''scissor hold'' (wrestling), ''scissor jack .

    • Derived terms

    * scissor kick * scissor sister * scissor tackle * scissorbill * scissorlike * scissorwise

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To cut using, or as if using scissors.
  • To excise or expunge something from a text.
    • The erroneous testimony was scissored from the record.
  • To move something like a pair of scissors, especially the legs.
    • ''The runner scissored over the hurdles.
  • To engage in scissoring (tribadism), a sexual act in which two women intertwine their legs and rub their vulvas against each other.
  • (skating) To skate with one foot significantly in front of the other.

    • cutter

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person or device that cuts (in various senses).
    • a stone cutter'''; a die '''cutter
  • * 1988 , Jorge Amado, Home is the Sailor (page 55)
    • Chico Pacheco kept repeating the phrase between clenched teeth, lamenting the wasted days of his youth; he had been a notorious cutter of classes.
  • (nautical) A single-masted, fore-and-aft rigged, sailing vessel with at least two headsails, and a mast set further aft than that of a sloop.
  • A foretooth; an incisor.
    • (Ray)
  • A heavy-duty motor boat for official use.
    • a coastguard cutter .
  • (nautical) A ship's boat, used for transport ship-to-ship or ship-to-shore.
  • (cricket) A ball that moves sideways in the air, or off the pitch, because it has been cut.
  • (baseball) A cut fastball.
  • (slang) A ten-pence piece. So named because it is the coin most often sharpened by prison inmates to use as a weapon.
  • (slang) A person who practices self-injury.
  • (obsolete) An officer in the exchequer who notes by cutting on the tallies the sums paid.
  • (obsolete) A ruffian; a bravo; a destroyer.
  • (obsolete) A kind of soft yellow brick, easily cut, and used for facework.
  • A light sleigh drawn by one horse.
  • * 2007 , Carrie A. Meyer, Days on the Family Farm , U of Minnesota Press, page 55 [http://books.google.com/books?id=IaJGWqZk7fYC&pg=RA1-PA55&dq=cutter+snow+horse]:
    • Throughout much of the winter, the sled or the cutter' was the vehicle of choice. Emily and Joseph had a ' cutter , for traveling in style in snow.

    Derived terms

    * glass cutter * wire cutters