Scissors vs Snips - What's the difference?
scissors | snips |
(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.
shears; hand tools used to cut sheet metal and other tough webs
(snip)
As nouns the difference between scissors and snips
is that scissors is 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 snips is plural of lang=en.As verbs the difference between scissors and snips
is that scissors is third-person singular of scissor while snips is third-person singular of snip.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 .
