What do you call these snips/shears? The tool on the left is a Wezsnip. They call it an easy snip utility shear. Almost identical tools on the web are called...
Craft snip, Multi snip, Garden tools scissors.
Very similar ones are called...
Hardware snip, Shop snip.
I would like to use a non-trade name to describe them uniquely. Any ideas?
The tool on the right is a Tullen work cutter. A similar tool is called a multi use shear. What is the difference, if any, between shear and snip?

The following picture shows what my father refered to as tin snips. No good for craft work.
I know these as Tin Snips, or Tinner(')s Snips, and are identifiable as such because of the symmetry of the handles and blades, the wide aperture between the blades, and that the handles are longer than the blades.

The difference between snips &amp; shears? 


  Snips are shears that are used for cutting metal.


So a snip is a type of shear. And a shear?


  Is a cutting instrument in which two blades move past each other, like scissors but typically larger