Scissors

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Scissors are used for sewing, in the kitchen, and for paper.

Scissors are a tool used for cutting thin material like:

• paper
• cardboard
• metal foil
• thin plastic
• food
• cloth
• rope
• wire
• hair
• nail

Knives are better than scissors for some uses. Unlike a knife, scissors have two sharp edges. Some types of scissors, like children's scissors, are not very sharp. Children's scissors are often protected with plastic. These are called "Safety Scissors".

Scissors can be made for left-handed or right-handed people. Using scissors made for the wrong hand is very hard for most people.

There are many kinds of scissors used for cutting different materials and shapes.

Scissors Media

• A pair of standard scissors

• Aerra's Films of the Ordinary IV -- Scissors Cutting Card Stock.webm

  A video showing scissors being used to cut a piece of card stock

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  中国刀剪剑博物馆藏。

• Shears MET 29I E08R4.jpg

  These shears are thought to date to the 2nd century AD and come from a Roman settlement in Trabzon, Turkey. The style of the "Egyptianizing" metal inlay designs suggests that they were made to imitate actual Egyptian art. When closed, the dog and cat figures at the tips come face to face.

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  Classic Italian-style kitchen scissors, often used to cut food. The two halves can be detached in order to be cleaned.

• RH-LH sidebents.jpg

  Left-handed (left) and right-handed (right) sidebent scissors

• Taille haie.jpg

  hedge clippers, manual hedge trimmer

• Gardena-Grasschere klassisch.jpg

  Gardena-Grasschere klassisch

• Averruncator.png

  An averruncator from United States Patent Application 877220.

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  Open secator - Secateur ouvert