Saw

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Any of various tools, either hand-operated or power-driven, having a thin metal blade or disk with a sharp, usually toothed edge, used for cutting wood, metal, or other hard materials.
  • v. To cut or divide with a saw.
  • v. To produce or shape with a saw: sawed a hole in the board.
  • v. To make back-and-forth motions through or on: a speaker who saws the air with his arms.
  • verb-intransitive. To use a saw: sawing along the chalk line.
  • verb-intransitive. To undergo cutting with a saw: Pine wood saws easily.
  • n. A familiar saying, especially one that has become trite through repetition. See Synonyms at saying.
  • v. Past tense of see1.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A tool with a toothed blade used for cutting hard substances, in particular wood or metal
  • n. A musical saw.
  • n. A sawtooth wave.
  • v. To cut (something) with a saw.
  • v. To make a motion back and forth similar to cutting something with a saw.
  • v. To be cut with a saw.
  • n. Something spoken; speech, discourse.
  • n. A saying or proverb.
  • n. opinion, idea, belief; by thy ~, in your opinion; commune ~, common opinion; common knowledge; on no ~, by no means.
  • n. proposal, suggestion; possibility.
  • v. Simple past of see.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • imp. of see.
  • n. Something said; speech; discourse.
  • n. A saying; a proverb; a maxim.
  • n. Dictate; command; decree.
  • n. An instrument for cutting or dividing substances, as wood, iron, etc., consisting of a thin blade, or plate, of steel, with a series of sharp teeth on the edge, which remove successive portions of the material by cutting and tearing.
  • v. To cut with a saw; to separate with a saw.
  • v. To form by cutting with a saw.
  • v. Also used figuratively.
  • verb-intransitive. To use a saw; to practice sawing.
  • verb-intransitive. To cut, as a saw.
  • verb-intransitive. To be cut with a saw.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A cutting-tool consisting of a metal blade, band, or plate with the edge armed with cutting teeth, worked either by a reciprocating movement, as in a hand-saw, or by a continuous motion in one direction, as in a circular saw, a band-saw, and an annular saw.
  • n. A saw-blade together with the handles or frame to which the blade is attached, as a hand-saw, wood-saw, or hack-saw.
  • n. In zoology and comparative anatomy, a serrated formation or organ, or a serrated arrangement of parts of formations or organs.
  • n. A sawing-machine, as a scroll-saw or jig-saw.
  • n. The act of sawing or see-sawing; specifically, in whist [U. S.], same as see-saw, 3 .
  • n. In surgery, a trephine.
  • n. Particularly, a saw used by lumbermen for cutting logs from tree-trunks, having an edge slightly convex in the cutting-plane, a handle at each end projecting from and at right angles with the back in the plane of the blade, and teeth filed so that the saw cuts when drawn in either direction. It is operated by two workmen, one at each handle.
  • n. (See also back-saw, band-saw, belt-saw, buzz-saw, center-saw, chain-saw, fret-saw, gang-saw, gig-saw, ice-saw, jig-saw, rabbet-saw, ring-saw, etc.)
  • To cut or divide with a saw; cut in pieces with a saw.
  • To form by cutting with a saw: as, to saw boards or planks (that is, to saw timber into boards or planks).
  • To cut or cleave as with the motion of a saw.
  • In bookbinding, to score or cut lightly through the folded edges of, as the gathered sections of a book, in four or five equidistant spaces.
  • To use a saw; practise the use of a saw; cut with a saw.
  • To be cut with a saw: as, the timber saws smoothly.
  • n. A saying; speech; discourse; word.
  • n. A proverbial saying; maxim; proverb.
  • n. A tale; story; recital. Compare saga.
  • n. A decree.
  • n. Synonyms Axiom, Maxim, etc. See aphorism.
  • n. Preterit of see.
  • n. A Scotch form of salve.
  • n. A keyhole saw; a saw which has a very narrow, thin blade, so that it can turn comers.
  • n. A circular saw turning in a vertical plane or with its shaft horizontal.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people
  • v. cut with a saw
  • n. hand tool having a toothed blade for cutting
  • n. a power tool for cutting wood
  • Equivalent
    Verb Form
    sawed    sawing    sawn    saws   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    expression    saying    locution   
    Variant
    sawn    see   
    Form
    sawed    sawn    sawing   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    speech    discourse    saying    proverb    maxim    dictate    command    decree   
    Verb Stem
    see   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Baugh    Gaw    Haw    Law    Shaw    Straw    Waugh    aw    awe    bashaw   
    Unknown
    Pets    Travel   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    chisel    shovel    lathe    tongs    winch    hammer    cutter    hatchet    screw-driver    scissor