As the name suggests, multi-purpose scissors, also called general purpose scissors or universal scissors, are a single pair of scissors engineered to complete and excel at multiple cutting tasks in the home, office, garden or workshop. The main uses for kitchen shears are the most obvious ones: snipping herbs, cutting open food packaging, and breaking down poultry.
Opening packages and letters, cutting out recipes, cutting thread and cord, making clothes, slipcovers and home accessories, cutting cuticle, trimming nails, hair cutting, picking flowers, darning, cutting samples, patching, cutting out paper dolls, metal work, and upholstery are just a few of the familiar, everyday.
In Modern English, scissors has no singular form. A pair of pairs of scissors. Scissors is an example of a plurale tantum, or an English word that only has a plural form that represents a singular object.
