razor

名词 n. 动词 v.
/ˈɹeɪzə/    /ˈɹeɪzɚ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A keen-edged knife of peculiar shape, used in shaving the hair from the face or other parts of the body.
  2. Any tool or instrument designed for shaving.
    — 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.
  3. The sharp tusk of a wild boar.
  4. A conceptual device that allows one to shave away unlikely explanations for a phenomenon.
    — Occam's razor, Hanlon's razor
动词 v.
  1. To shave with a razor. transitive
    — He thought likewise, that what with razoring and tanning, and the change of his clothes, he was not likely to be recognised.

词形变化

razors plural razour alternative,obsolete razors present,singular,third-person razoring participle,present razored participle,past razored past razour alternative,obsolete

词源

词源 1
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”).
词源 2
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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