EnglishEdit
Alternative formsEdit
- razour (obsolete)
EtymologyEdit
From Old French rasour, from raser (“to scrape, to shave”).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
razor (plural razors)
- A keen-edged knife of peculiar shape, used in shaving the hair from the face or other parts of the body.
- Any tool or instrument designed for shaving.
- The sharp tusk of a wild boar.
- (philosophy) A conceptual device that allows one to shave away unlikely explanations for a phenomenon.
Derived termsEdit
Terms derived from razor (noun)
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TranslationsEdit
shaving knife
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shaving instrument
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tusk of wild boar
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VerbEdit
razor (third-person singular simple present razors, present participle razoring, simple past and past participle razored)
- (transitive) To cut with a razor.
- 2008 April 13, Sara Corbett, “Can the Cellphone Help End Global Poverty?”, New York Times:
- He might be busy examining the advertisements for prostitutes stuck up in a São Paulo phone booth, or maybe getting his ear hairs razored off at a barber shop in Vietnam.
- 2008 April 13, Sara Corbett, “Can the Cellphone Help End Global Poverty?”, New York Times:
ReferencesEdit
- “razor” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary (2001).