different between scissors vs chair

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

Alternative forms

• chur (Bermuda)

Etymology

From Middle English chayer, chaire, chaiere, chaere, chayre, chayere, from Old French chaiere, chaere, from Latin cathedra (“seat”), from Ancient Greek ??????? (kathédra), from ???? (katá, “down”) + ???? (hédra, “seat”). Displaced native stool and settle, which now have more specialised senses. Doublet of cathedra and chaise.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /t????(?)/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /t?????/
• Rhymes: -??(?)
• Homophone: chare

Noun

chair (plural chairs)

1. An item of furniture used to sit on or in, comprising a seat, legs, back, and sometimes arm rests, for use by one person. Compare stool, couch, sofa, settee, loveseat and bench.

2. Clipping of chairperson.
3. (music) The seating position of a particular musician in an orchestra.

4. (rail transport) An iron block used on railways to support the rails and secure them to the sleepers, and similar devices.
5. (chemistry) One of two possible conformers of cyclohexane rings (the other being boat), shaped roughly like a chair.
6. (slang, with the) Ellipsis of electric chair (the execution device).

7. (education) A distinguished professorship at a university.
8. A vehicle for one person; either a sedan borne upon poles, or a two-wheeled carriage drawn by one horse; a gig.
9. The seat or office of a person in authority, such as a judge or bishop.

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Assamese: ?????? (sear)
• ? Bengali: ?????? (cear), ????? (cêr)
• ? Oriya: ????? (cear), ?????? (ciyar), ???? (ciarô)

Translations

Verb

chair (third-person singular simple present chairs, present participle chairing, simple past and past participle chaired)

1. (transitive) To act as chairperson at; to preside over.
2. (transitive) To carry in a seated position upon one's shoulders, especially in celebration or victory.
   • 1896, A. E. Houseman, "To An Athlete Dying Young," in A Shropshire Lad

     The time you won your town the race

     We chaired you through the marketplace.

3. (transitive, Wales, Britain) To award a chair to (a winning poet) at a Welsh eisteddfod.

Translations

Anagrams

• Archi, Chira, archi-

French

Etymology

From Middle French chair, char, from Old French char, charn (earlier carn), from Latin carnem, accusative of car?, from Proto-Italic *kar?, from Proto-Indo-European *ker-, *(s)ker-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???/
• Homophones: chaire, chaires, chairs, cher, chers, chère, chères, cherres
• Rhymes: -??

Noun

chair f (plural chairs)

1. flesh

Derived terms

• bien en chair
• chair à canon
• chair de poule
• en chair et en os
• ni chair ni poisson

Related terms

Further reading

• “chair” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Gallo

Etymology

From Old French cheoir, from Latin cado, cognate with French choir.

Verb

chair

1. to fall
2. to crash

Manx

Adjective

chair

1. Lenited form of cair.

Noun

chair f

1. Lenited form of cair.

Mutation

Middle French

Alternative forms

• char

Etymology

From Old French char, charn, from Latin carnem, accusative singular of car?.

Noun

chair f (plural chairs)

1. flesh

Descendants

• French: chair

Old French

Verb

chair

1. alternative infinitive of cheoir.

Conjugation

This verb conjugates as a third-group verb. This verb has a stressed present stem chié distinct from the unstressed stem che, as well as other irregularities. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.