[
  {
    "word": "scissors",
    "phonetic": "/\u02c8s\u026az\u0259z/",
    "phonetics": [
      {
        "text": "/\u02c8s\u026az\u0259z/",
        "audio": "https://api.dictionaryapi.dev/media/pronunciations/en/scissors-uk.mp3",
        "sourceUrl": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=9027380",
        "license": {
          "name": "BY 3.0 US",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us"
        }
      },
      {
        "text": "/\u02c8s\u026az\u025az/",
        "audio": "https://api.dictionaryapi.dev/media/pronunciations/en/scissors-us.mp3",
        "sourceUrl": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1157605",
        "license": {
          "name": "BY-SA 3.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"
        }
      }
    ],
    "meanings": [
      {
        "partOfSpeech": "noun",
        "definitions": [
          {
            "definition": "One blade on a pair of scissors.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "Scissors.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "(noun adjunct) Used in certain noun phrases to denote a thing resembling the action of scissors, as scissor kick, scissor hold (wrestling), scissor jack.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          }
        ],
        "synonyms": [],
        "antonyms": []
      },
      {
        "partOfSpeech": "verb",
        "definitions": [
          {
            "definition": "To cut using, or as if using, scissors.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "To excise or expunge something from a text.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "The erroneous testimony was scissored from the record."
          },
          {
            "definition": "To reproduce (text) as an excerpt, copy.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "To move something like a pair of scissors, especially the legs.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "The runner scissored over the hurdles."
          },
          {
            "definition": "(sex) To engage in scissoring (tribadism), a sexual act in which two women intertwine their legs and rub their vulvas against each other.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "To skate with one foot significantly in front of the other.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          }
        ],
        "synonyms": [],
        "antonyms": []
      },
      {
        "partOfSpeech": "noun",
        "definitions": [
          {
            "definition": "(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 are closed.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "Scissors are used to cut the flowers."
          },
          {
            "definition": "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 side.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "They executed a perfect scissors."
          },
          {
            "definition": "A method of skating with one foot significantly in front of the other.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "An exercise in which the legs are switched back and forth, suggesting the motion of scissors.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "A scissors hold.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "(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-lizard-Spock.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          }
        ],
        "synonyms": [
          "switch",
          "pair of scissors",
          "shears"
        ],
        "antonyms": []
      }
    ],
    "license": {
      "name": "CC BY-SA 3.0",
      "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"
    },
    "sourceUrls": [
      "https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/scissor",
      "https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/scissors"
    ]
  }
]