| inglês > português |
| scissors |
| 1. tesoura |
| scissor |
| inglês > inglês |
| scissors |
| 1. n. (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. n. (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. n. (skating) A method of skating with one foot significantly in front of the other. |
| 4. n. (gymnastics) An exercise in which the legs are switched back and forth, suggesting the motion of scissors. |
| 5. n. (wrestling) A scissors hold. |
| 6. n. (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. n. (rare) plural of scissor |
| português > inglês |
| tesoura |
| 1. n-f. scissors (tool used for cutting) |
| 2. n-f. (architecture) a type of truss (framework of beams forming a rigid structure) used in rooves |
| 3. n-f. scissor-tailed flycatcher (a species of bird) |
| 4. n-f. earwig (any insect of the order Dermaptera) |
| 5. n-f. fiddler crab |
| 6. n-f. (football) a form of sliding tackle where the player performing the tackle has his legs wide open |
| 7. n-f. (martial arts) scissor kick (a kick where the attacker attempts to grabs his opponent’s neck with his legs) |
| 8. v. verb form of tesourar |