razor
See also: Razor
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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)
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 shave with a razor.
- 1868, George MacDonald, Guild Court, London: Hurst & Blackett, Volume 3, Chapter 6, p. 137,[1]
- He thought likewise, that what with razoring and tanning, and the change of his clothes, he was not likely to be recognised.
- 1996, George R. R. Martin, A Game of Thrones, New York: Bantam, 2016, “Tyrion,” p. 641,[2]
- Lord Tywin did not believe in half measures. He razored his lip and chin as well, but kept his side-whiskers, two great thickets of wiry golden hair that covered most of his cheeks from ear to jaw.
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2008 April 13, Sara Corbett, “Can the Cellphone Help End Global Poverty?”, in New York Times[3]:
- 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.
- 1868, George MacDonald, Guild Court, London: Hurst & Blackett, Volume 3, Chapter 6, p. 137,[1]
Derived termsEdit
- razorable (obsolete)
ReferencesEdit
- “razor” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary, 2001–2018.