razor.
A keen-edged knife of peculiar shape, used in shaving the hair from the face or other parts of the body.
Meaning & usage
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.
A conceptual device that allows one to shave away unlikely explanations for a phenomenon.
Occam's razor, Hanlon's razor
Where this word comes from
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”).
To shave with a razor.
Where this word comes from
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”).
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