Scissor vs Tweezer - What's the difference?
scissor | tweezer |
(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 .
To cut using, or as if using scissors.
To excise or expunge something from a text.
To move something like a pair of scissors, especially the legs.
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.
Of, pertaining to, or relating to, tweezers.
(US) A pair of tweezers, tweezers.
to use tweezers
* 2011 , William deBuys, A Great Aridness: Climate Change and the Future of the American Southwest
*:Sadler has already wrapped an ace bandage around a badly sprained wrist (sustained in a fall on a desert trail), tweezered out a few cactus spines, moleskinned some blisters, and doled out all the pastillas de dolor —painkillers...
As nouns the difference between scissor and tweezer
is that scissor is (rare) one blade on a pair of scissors while tweezer is (us) a pair of tweezers, tweezers.As verbs the difference between scissor and tweezer
is that scissor is to cut using, or as if using scissors while tweezer is to use tweezers.As an adjective tweezer is
of, pertaining to, or relating to, tweezers.scissor
English
Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* scissor kick * scissor sister * scissor tackle * scissorbill * scissorlike * scissorwiseVerb
(en verb)- The erroneous testimony was scissored from the record.
- ''The runner scissored over the hurdles.
