razor

noun
/ˈɹeɪzə/UK/ˈɹeɪzɚ/US

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”).

  1. derived from rasour
  2. inherited from rasour

Definitions

  1. A keen-edged knife of peculiar shape, used in shaving the hair from the face or other…

    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.

    • The box was jam packed full o' gifts for each manjack of us: razors, aftershave, toothbrushes, an' books.
  3. The sharp tusk of a wild boar.

  4. + 3 more definitions
    1. A conceptual device that allows one to shave away unlikely explanations for a phenomenon.

      • Occam's razor, Hanlon's razor
    2. To shave with a razor.

      • He thought likewise, that what with razoring and tanning, and the change of his clothes, he was not likely to be recognised.
      • Lord Tywin did not believe in half measures. He razored his lip and chin as well, but kept his side-whiskers, two great thickets of wiry golden hair that covered most of his cheeks from ear to jaw.
      • He might be busy examining the advertisements for prostitutes stuck up in a São Paulo phone booth, or maybe getting his ear hairs razored off at a barber shop in Vietnam.
    3. A surname.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at razor. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at razor. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

5 hops · closes at razor

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA