razor
Noun · VerbOpen English WordNet
Noun (1)razors
- edge tool used in shavingType of edge toolKinds shaver, straight razor, safety razorParts razorblade
Verb (1)razors
- shave with a razorMore general shave
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Translations
Noun shaving knife
- Spanish
- navaja de afeitar
- French
- rasoir
- German
- Rasiermesser
- Italian
- rasoio
- Portuguese
- navalha
- Turkish
- ustura
- Russian
- бри́тва brítva
- Arabic
- مُوسَى حِلَاقَة mūsā ḥilāqa
- Chinese
- 剃刀 tìdāo
- Japanese
- カミソリ kamisori
34 more languages
- Dutch
- scheermes
- Polish
- brzytwa
- Swedish
- rakkniv
- Greek
- ξυράφι xyráfi
- Korean
- 면도칼 myeondokal
- Indonesian
- pisau cukur
- Vietnamese
- dao cạo
- Hungarian
- borotva
- Portuguese (PT)
- navalha
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 刮鬍刀 guāhúdāo
- Albanian
- brisk
- Breton
- aotenn
- Catalan
- navalla d'afaitar
- Czech
- břitva
- Danish
- barberkniv
- Esperanto
- razilo
- Estonian
- habemenuga
- Finnish
- partaveitsi
- Georgian
- სამართებელი samartebeli
- Hebrew
- תַּעַר tá'ar
- Icelandic
- rakvél
- Kurdish
- gûzan
- Latvian
- skuveklis
- Lithuanian
- skustuvas
- Norwegian
- barberhøvel
- Romanian
- brici
- Scottish Gaelic
- ealtainn
- Serbo-Croatian
- brijač
- Slovak
- britva
- Slovenian
- britev
- Swahili
- wembe
- Walloon
- raezoe
- Welsh
- rasel
- Yiddish
- גאָלמעסער golmeser
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: OE. rasour, OF. rasur, LL. rasor: cf. F. rasoir, LL. rasorium. See Raze, transitive verb, Rase, transitive verb
1. A keen-edged knife of peculiar shape, used in shaving the hair from the face or the head; also called a straight razor. “Take thee a barber's razor.” Ezek. v. 1.
2. a device used for shaving, having a replaceable blade with a very sharp edge; also called safety razor. Also a similar device, made of plastic, in which the blade is neither replaceable nor can be sharpened, intended to be discarded after the blade dulls — called a disposable razor.
3. Zoology A tusk of a wild boar.
Razor fish. Zoology (a) A small Mediterranean fish (Coryphaena novacula), prized for the table. (b) The razor shell. — Razor grass Botany, a West Indian plant (Scleria scindens), the triangular stem and the leaves of which are edged with minute sharp teeth. — Razor grinder Zoology, the European goat-sucker. — Razor shell Zoology, any marine bivalve shell belonging to Solen and allied genera, especially Solen ensis (or Ensatella ensis), and Solen Americana, which have a long, narrow, somewhat curved shell, resembling a razor handle in shape. Called also razor clam, razor fish, knife handle. — Razor stone. Same as Novaculite. — Razor strap, or razor strop, a strap or strop used in sharpening razors.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54 · with additions: GCIDE editors