Scissors vs Blade - What's the difference?
scissors | blade |
(countable, plural in form, usually, with a plural verb) A tool used for cutting thin material, consisting of two crossing blades attached at a pivot point in such a way that the blades slide across each other when the handles are closed.
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(countable, rugby) An attacking move conducted by two players; the player without the ball runs from one side of the ball carrier, behind the ball carrier, and receives a pass from the ball carrier on the other side.
(countable, skating) A method of skating with one foot significantly in front of the other.
(countable, gymnastics) An exercise in which the legs are switched back and forth, suggesting the motion of scissors.
(countable, wrestling) A scissors hold.
The sharp cutting edge of a knife, chisel, or other tool, a razor blade.
The flat functional end of a propeller, oar, hockey stick, screwdriver, skate, etc.
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(botany) The thin, flat part of a plant leaf, attached to a stem (petiole). The lamina.
A flat bone, especially the shoulder blade.
A cut of beef from near the shoulder blade (part of the chuck).
The flat part of the tongue.
(poetic) A sword or knife.
(archaeology) A piece of prepared, sharp-edged stone, often flint, at least twice as long as it is wide; a long flake of ground-edge stone or knapped vitreous stone.
(ultimate frisbee) A throw characterized by a tight parabolic trajectory due to a steep lateral attitude.
(sailing) The rudder, daggerboard, or centerboard of a vessel.
A bulldozer or surface-grading machine with mechanically adjustable blade that is nominally perpendicular to the forward motion of the vehicle.
(dated) A dashing young man.
* Coleridge
(slang, chiefly, US) A homosexual, usually male.
Thin plate, foil.
(architecture, in the plural) The principal rafters of a roof.
The four large shell plates on the sides, and the five large ones of the middle, of the carapace of the sea turtle, which yield the best tortoise shell.
Airfoil]] in windmills and [[w:windturbine, windturbines.
(informal) To skate on rollerblades.
To furnish with a blade.
(poetic) To put forth or have a blade.
* P. Fletcher
As nouns the difference between scissors and blade
is that scissors is (countable|plural in form|usually|with a plural verb) a tool used for cutting thin material, consisting of two crossing blades attached at a pivot point in such a way that the blades slide across each other when the handles are closed while blade is (soccer) someone connected with , as a fan, player, coach etc.As a verb scissors
is (scissor).scissors
English
Noun
(en-plural noun)- Those scissors are sharp. (indicating singular or plural scissors)
- That scissors is sharp. (less commonly to indicate singular scissors)
- Scissors are used to cut the flowers.
- Use a scissors to cut them if you don't have proper shears.
- They executed a perfect scissors .
Usage notes
* "A pair of scissors" is preferred to "a scissors" by about a four-to-one margin in the US (COCA). * "The scissors" is preferred to "the scissor" by about a thirty-to-one margin in the US (COCA).Synonyms
* (tool used for cutting) pair of scissors * (rugby) switchDerived terms
blade
English
Noun
(wikipedia blade) (en noun)Lee S. Langston, magazine=(American Scientist)
The Adaptable Gas Turbine, passage=Turbines have been around for a long time—windmills and water wheels are early examples. The name comes from the Latin turbo'', meaning ''vortex , and thus the defining property of a turbine is that a fluid or gas turns the blades of a rotor, which is attached to a shaft that can perform useful work.}}
- He saw a turnkey in a trice / Fetter a troublesome blade .
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Derived terms
* axeblade * blade of grass * blade sharpener * bladeless * bladelet * bladelike * bladesmith * doctor blade * gay blade * microblade * oar blade * razor blade, razor-blade, razorblade * rollerblade * shoulder blade, shoulderblade, shoulder-blade * snowblade * switchblade * twaybladeReferences
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Verb
- As sweet a plant, as fair a flower, is faded / As ever in the Muses' garden bladed .