To separate muscles, organs, and so on without cutting into them or disrupting their architecture.
To analyze an idea in detail by separating it into its parts.
To study an animal's anatomy by cutting it apart; to perform a necropsy or an autopsy.
Of an infection or foreign material, following the fascia separating muscles or other organs.
To study a plant or other organism's anatomy similarly.
To move something like a pair of scissors, especially the legs.
To cut using, or as if using, scissors.
To engage in scissoring (tribadism), a sexual act in which two women intertwine their legs and rub their vulvas against each other.
To skate with one foot significantly in front of the other.
To excise or expunge something from a text.
One blade on a pair of scissors.
Scissors.
Used in certain noun phrases to denote a thing resembling the action of scissors, as scissor kick, scissor hold (wrestling), scissor jack.