- a sharp-edged cutting instrument for shaving off or cutting hair
- shaver (sense )
Origin of razor
Middle English rasour from Old French from raser: see razerazor
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razor
noun
- A sharp-edged cutting instrument used especially for shaving or cutting hair, especially from the face or legs.
- See safety razor.
- An electric device with vibrating or rotating blades used for shaving or cutting hair close to the skin.
transitive verb
ra·zored, ra·zor·ing, ra·zorsTo shave, cut, or remove with a razor or similar cutting implement: razored off the mustache; razored pages from a rare book.
Origin of razor
Middle English rasor from Old French from raser to scrape ; see raze .THE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FIFTH EDITION by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Copyright © 2016, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Noun
(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.
Verb
(third-person singular simple present razors, present participle razoring, simple past and past participle razored)
- To cut with a razor.
Origin
From Old French rasour, from raser (“to scrape, to shave").
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Sentence Examples
- He tucked the razor in his shirt pocket.
- Calculating the actual, societal costs of fatty foods, alcohol, cars, pet ownership, mercury thermometers, air conditioning, solar panels, razor blades, jogging shoes, and ten thousand other things, and incorporating those costs in the prices as taxes would lead to a vastly more efficient allocation of resources.
- After breakfast Keaton retrieved a portable razor from his car.
- By other methods of treatment, known to the ancient Egyptians, Greeks and others, but now forgotten, it could be hardened and formed into knife and razor edges of the utmost keenness.
- One can imagine the interest and astonishment with which the great Greek would have been filled had some unduly precocious disciple shown to him the red-blood-system of the marine terrestrial Annelids; the red blood of Planorbis, of Apus cancriformis, and of the Mediterranean razor shell, Solen legumen.
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