different between scissors vs blade

English

Alternative forms

• cizars, cizers (both obsolete)
• scissars (archaic)
• sissors (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English sisours, sisoures (attested since 1350–1400), from Old French cisoires, from Vulgar Latin *c?s?ria, plural of Late Latin c?s?rium (“cutting tool”) (compare chisel); from Latin word root -c?sus (compare excise) or caesus, past participle of caed? (“to cut”). Partially displaced native Old English s??ara (“scissors, shears”), whence shears.

• The current spelling, from the 16th century, is due to association with Medieval Latin scissor (“tailor”), from Latin carrying the meaning “carver, cutter”, from scindere (“to split”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?s?z?z/
• (US) enPR: s?z??rz, IPA^(key): /?s?z?z/
• Rhymes: -?z?(r)z

Noun

scissors (plural scissors)

1. (countable, usually construed as plural) 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.
2. (uncountable, aviation, military, with the) A type of defensive maneuver in dogfighting, involving repeatedly turning one's aircraft towards that of the attacker in order to force them to overshoot.
3. (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.

4. (countable, skating) A method of skating with one foot significantly in front of the other.
5. (countable, gymnastics) An exercise in which the legs are switched back and forth, suggesting the motion of scissors.
6. (countable, wrestling) A scissors hold.
7. (rock paper scissors) A hand with the index and middle fingers open (a handshape resembling scissors), that beats paper and loses to rock. It beats lizard and loses to Spock in rock-paper-scissors-lizard-Spock.

scissors

1. (rare) plural of scissor

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

• scissor (India)
• (tool used for cutting): pair of scissors; shears
• (rugby): switch

Hyponyms

• (dogfight maneuver): flat scissors, rolling scissors

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

scissors (third-person singular simple present scissorses, present participle scissorsing, simple past and past participle scissorsed)

1. (transitive) Rare form of scissor (“To cut using, or as if using, scissors.”).

Verb

scissors

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of scissor

Further reading

• Scissors on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Etymology

From Middle English blade, blad, from Old English blæd (“leaf”), from Proto-West Germanic *blad, from Proto-Germanic *blad?, from Proto-Indo-European *b?l?h?-o-to-m, from *b?leh?- (“to thrive, bloom”)

See also West Frisian bled, Dutch blad, German Blatt, Danish blad, Irish bláth (“flower”), Welsh blodyn (“flower”), Tocharian A pält, Tocharian B pilta (“leaf”), Albanian fletë (“leaf”). Similar usage in German Sägeblatt (“saw blade”, literally “saw leaf”). Doublet of blat. More at blow.

Pronunciation

• enPR: bl?d, IPA^(key): /ble?d/
• Rhymes: -e?d

Noun

blade (plural blades)

2. The sharp cutting edge of a knife, chisel, or other tool, a razor blade/sword.
3. The flat functional end of a propeller, oar, hockey stick, screwdriver, skate, etc.
4. The narrow leaf of a grass or cereal.
5. (botany) The thin, flat part of a plant leaf, attached to a stem (petiole). The lamina.
6. A flat bone, especially the shoulder blade.
7. A cut of beef from near the shoulder blade (part of the chuck).
8. (chiefly phonetics, phonology) The part of the tongue just behind the tip, used to make laminal consonants.
9. (poetic) A sword or knife.
10. (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.
11. (ultimate frisbee) A throw characterized by a tight parabolic trajectory due to a steep lateral attitude.
12. (sailing) The rudder, daggerboard, or centerboard of a vessel.
13. A bulldozer or surface-grading machine with mechanically adjustable blade that is nominally perpendicular to the forward motion of the vehicle.
14. (dated) A dashing young man.
    • 2009, Amanda Vickery, Behind Closed Doors, Yale University Press, p. 77:

      Young blades were expected to kick over the traces and skirt disaster, before they graduated to matrimonial housekeeping.

15. (slang, chiefly US) A homosexual, usually male.
16. Thin plate, foil.
17. (photography) One of a series of small plates that make up the aperture or the shutter of a camera.
18. (architecture, in the plural) The principal rafters of a roof.
19. 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.

    (Can we find and add a quotation of De Colange to this entry?)

20. Airfoil in windmills and windturbines.
21. (computing) A blade server.
22. (climbing) Synonym of knifeblade
23. (mathematics) An exterior product of vectors. (The product may have more than two factors. Also, a scalar counts as a 0-blade, a vector as a 1-blade; an exterior product of k vectors may be called a k-blade.)

    Holonym: multivector

24. The part of a key that is inserted into the lock.

    Coordinate term: bow

Derived terms

Translations

References

• Creswell Crags

Verb

blade (third-person singular simple present blades, present participle blading, simple past and past participle bladed)

1. (informal) To skate on rollerblades.

2. (transitive) To furnish with a blade.
3. (intransitive, poetic) To put forth or have a blade.
   • 1633, Phineas Fletcher, "Elisa", in Piscatorie Eclogues and other Poetical Miscellanies

     As sweet a plant, as fair a flower, is faded / As ever in the Muses' garden bladed.

4. (transitive) To stab with a blade

5. (transitive, professional wrestling, slang) To cut (a person) so as to provoke bleeding.

Derived terms

• hydroblade

Translations

References

Anagrams

• Balde, abled, albed, baled, blead

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English blade, from Middle English blade. Doublet of blad.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ble?d/
• Hyphenation: blade

Noun

blade m (plural blades)

1. (sports, chiefly plural) A running blade (prosthetic limb used for running).

Middle English

Alternative forms

• blad, blaad, bladd, blayde, blayd

Etymology

From Old English blæd, from Proto-West Germanic *blad, from Proto-Germanic *blad?, from Proto-Indo-European *b?l?h?otom.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bla?d/, /blad/

Noun

blade (plural blades or bladdys)

1. A leaf or blade; a piece foliage in general.
2. A blade (sharp edge of a weapon).
3. Any sharp-bladed slashing or stabbing weapon.
4. (rare) A wooden tile or chip for roofing.
5. (rare) Anything close in appearance or form to a blade.

Derived terms

• bladyn
• blader

Descendants

• English: blade
• Scots: blad, blade, blaud, blaid

References

• “bl??d(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-29.

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bla.d?/

Adjective

blade

1. inflection of blady:
   1. neuter nominative/accusative/vocative singular
   2. nonvirile nominative/accusative/vocative plural