razor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹeɪzə/
ipa: /ˈɹeɪzɚ/
rhymes: -eɪzə(ɹ)
Forms: form: razors
form: razour
Etymology: From Middle English rasour, from Old French rasour, from raser (“to scrape, to shave”). More at rat. By surface analysis, raze + -or. Displaced the native Old English sċierseax (literally “shaving knife”).
Senses: glosses: A keen-edged knife of peculiar shape, used in shaving the hair from the face or other parts of the body.
examples: text: These are fellows who shun the three-, four- and five-blade contraptions and canned goops for an older mode of shaving that they insist remains the ideal: a straight razor or a safety razor with a double-edged blade, and a fine English cream lathered and applied with a badger-hair brush.
ref: 2007 July 1, Jake Mooney, “For Aficionados of Shaving, la Crème de la Crème”, in The New York Times:
text: The box was jam packed full o' gifts for each manjack of us: razors, aftershave, toothbrushes, an' books.
ref: 2013, Robert L. Buyer, Ursula T. Coute, Following the North Star, page 26:
glosses: Any tool or instrument designed for shaving.
glosses: The sharp tusk of a wild boar.
examples: text: Occam's razor, Hanlon's razor
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A conceptual device that allows one to shave away unlikely explanations for a phenomenon.
Derived terms: sense: Terms derived from razor (noun)
word: Alder's razor
sense: Terms derived from razor (noun)
word: Blore's razor
sense: Terms derived from razor (noun)
word: cutthroat razor
sense: Terms derived from razor (noun)
word: cut-throat razor
sense: Terms derived from razor (noun)
word: disposable razor
sense: Terms derived from razor (noun)
word: dry razor
sense: Terms derived from razor (noun)
word: electric razor
sense: Terms derived from razor (noun)
word: Gould's razor shell
sense: Terms derived from razor (noun)
word: Hanlon's razor
sense: Terms derived from razor (noun)
word: Hitchens' razor
sense: Terms derived from razor (noun)
word: Hitchens's razor
sense: Terms derived from razor (noun)
word: Occam's razor
sense: Terms derived from razor (noun)
word: open razor
sense: Terms derived from razor (noun)
word: razor and blades
sense: Terms derived from razor (noun)
word: razor-backed
sense: Terms derived from razor (noun)
word: razor-billed auk
sense: Terms derived from razor (noun)
word: razor-billed curassow
sense: Terms derived from razor (noun)
word: razor blade
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word: razor bump
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word: razor burn
sense: Terms derived from razor (noun)
word: razor clam
sense: Terms derived from razor (noun)
word: razor comb
sense: Terms derived from razor (noun)
word: razor cream
sense: Terms derived from razor (noun)
word: razor edge
sense: Terms derived from razor (noun)
word: razor eye
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word: razor grass
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word: razor grinder
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word: razorlike
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word: razor paste
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word: razor's edge
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word: razor sharp
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word: razor-sharp
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word: razor shell
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word: razor strap
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word: razor strop
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word: razor thin
sense: Terms derived from razor (noun)
word: razor-thin
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word: razor wire
sense: Terms derived from razor (noun)
word: razor-wired
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word: razory
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word: safety razor
sense: Terms derived from razor (noun)
word: stepping razor
sense: Terms derived from razor (noun)
word: straight razor
Related terms: raze
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