Other forms: razors
A razor is the sharp blade used for shaving. A safety razor, razor blade, sharp as a razor.
The safety razor made shaving a domestic act rather than a barber's job, and the business model of selling cheap handles and expensive blades is named after its maker. Occam's razor is the principle of preferring the simplest explanation — a razor because it shaves off unnecessary assumptions.
1nounrazorA sharp blade used for shaving.
“He cut his chin with a razor and had to stick a bit of tissue on it.”
razor is a blade.
Old French rasour comes from raser, to scrape or shave, from Latin radere. Erase and raze come from the same scraping.
Old French
rasour
Middle English
rasour
English, today
razor
Built 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 sċierseax.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA