if scissors is a plural word...wat is the singular form?

Question

always wondered this...please help

Answer 1

It's both!

scissors // n.pl.
1 (also pair of scissors sing.) an instrument for cutting fabric, paper, hair, etc., having two pivoted blades with finger and thumb holes in the handles, operating by closing on the material to be cut.
2 (treated as sing.) a a method of high jump with a forward and backward movement of the legs. b a hold in wrestling in which the opponent's body or esp. head is gripped between the legs.
scissorwise adv.
[Middle English sisoures via Old French cisoires from Late Latin cisoria, pl. of cisorium ‘cutting instrument’ (as chisel): associated with Latin scindere sciss- ‘to cut’]

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Answer 2

Scissors.

Answer 3

Since one blade is not longer the same tool, a single is called a pair of scissors. Unless, of course, you are talking about a scissor jack, a scissor cut, or a scissor kick. A broken half of a pair of scissors would be a scissor blade.

Answer 4

Scissors is both the singular and the plural.

Answer 5

Would you call less than two and more than zero pants a pant or a pair of pants? it's a plural, but there is no proper singular. For the singular, you say a pair of scissors.

Answer 6

Scissor but like the word people, some people only use the word people, when the plural is peoples.

Answer 7

Scissors refers to the TWO blades on a scissor pair. So one "scissor" would just be one blade. Do you get my point?

Answer 8

scissors are always referred to in the plral sense, because ethere are two blades, which makes up a pair of scissors

Answer 9

Good question. I'm not entirely sure, but you can study the etymology of words. It's likely because the English word for lice has a different origin from the word rice.

Answer 10

scissor