Scissor vs. Knife — What's the Difference?

To cut or clip with scissors or shears.

A knife (plural knives; from Old Norse knifr 'knife, dirk') is a tool or weapon with a cutting edge or blade, often attached to a handle or hilt. One of the earliest tools used by humanity, knives appeared at least 2.5 million years ago, as evidenced by the Oldowan tools.

Scissors (used with a sing. or pl. verb) A cutting implement consisting of two blades joined by a swivel pin that allows the cutting edges to be opened and closed.

A cutting instrument consisting of a sharp blade attached to a handle.

Any of various gymnastic exercises or jumps in which the movement of the legs suggests the opening and closing of scissors.

A cutting edge; a blade.

A scissors hold.

To use a knife on, especially to stab; wound with a knife.

(rare) One blade on a pair of scissors.

(Informal) To betray or attempt to defeat by underhand means.

(India) Scissors.

To cut or slash a way through something with or as if with a knife

(noun adjunct) Used in certain noun phrases to denote a thing resembling the action of scissors, as scissor kick, scissor hold (wrestling), scissor jack.

A utensil or a tool designed for cutting, consisting of a flat piece of hard material, usually steel or other metal (the blade), usually sharpened on one edge, attached to a handle. The blade may be pointed for piercing.

(transitive) To cut using, or as if using, scissors.

A weapon designed with the aforementioned specifications intended for slashing and/or stabbing and too short to be called a sword. A dagger.

(transitive) To excise or expunge something from a text.

Any blade-like part in a tool or a machine designed for cutting, such as that of a chipper.

To reproduce (text) as an excerpt, copy.

(transitive) To cut with a knife.

To move something like a pair of scissors, especially the legs.

(transitive) To use a knife to injure or kill by stabbing, slashing, or otherwise using the sharp edge of the knife as a weapon.

To engage in scissoring (tribadism), a sexual act in which two women intertwine their legs and rub their vulvas against each other.

(intransitive) To cut through as if with a knife.

(skating) To skate with one foot significantly in front of the other.

(transitive) To betray, especially in the context of a political slate.

To cut with scissors or shears; to prepare with the aid of scissors.

(transitive) To positively ignore, especially in order to denigrate; compare cut.

Cut with or as if with scissors

An instrument consisting of a thin blade, usually of steel and having a sharp edge for cutting, fastened to a handle, but of many different forms and names for different uses; as, table knife, drawing knife, putty knife, pallet knife, pocketknife, penknife, chopping knife, etc..

A sword or dagger.

To prune with the knife.

To cut or stab with a knife.

Fig.: To stab in the back; to try to defeat by underhand means, esp. in politics; to vote or work secretly against (a candidate of one's own party).

Edge tool used as a cutting instrument; has a pointed blade with a sharp edge and a handle

A weapon with a handle and blade with a sharp point

Any long thin projection that is transient;

Use a knife on;