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| scissors | |
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| 2. 3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs 'scissor' | |
| 3. Substantiv: | |
| 4. [1] die Schere | |
| [1] You need special scissors to cut leather. | |
| Du brauchst besondere Scheren um Leder zu schneiden. | |
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| Englisch > Englisch | |
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| scissors | |
| 1. subst. (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 |  |
| 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. | |
| 2. subst. (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 | |
| They executed a perfect scissors. | |
| 3. subst. (skating) A method of skating with one foot significantly in front of the other. | |
| 4. subst. (gymnastics) An exercise in which the legs are switched back and forth, suggesting the motion of scissors. | |
| 5. subst. (wrestling) A scissors hold. | |
| 6. subst. (rock paper scissors) A hand with the index and middle fingers open (a handshape resembling scissors), that beats paper and is loses to rock. It beats lizard and loses to Spock in rock-paper-scissors- | |
| 7. subst. (rare) plural of scissor | |
| Deutsch > Englisch | |
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| Schere | |
| 1. n-f. a pair of scissors, shears | |
| Kann ich mir eben deine Schere ausleihen? - Can I borrow your scissors for a minute? | |
| 2. n-f. (zoology) a pair of pincers (on a crab) | |
| 3. n-f. (figuratively) a gap, especially a widening one | |
| die Schere zwischen Arm und Reich - the (widening) gap between the poor and rich | |
