Saw

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  • intransitive verb. undefined
  • noun. A familiar saying, especially one that has become trite through repetition. synonym: saying.
  • noun. 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.
  • intransitive verb. To cut or divide with a saw.
  • intransitive verb. To produce or shape with a saw.
  • intransitive verb. To make back-and-forth motions through or on.
  • intransitive verb. To use a saw.
  • intransitive verb. To undergo cutting with a saw.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • 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.
  • noun. A saying; speech; discourse; word.
  • noun. A proverbial saying; maxim; proverb.
  • noun. A tale; story; recital. Compare saga.
  • noun. A decree.
  • noun. Synonyms Axiom, Maxim, etc. See aphorism.
  • noun. Preterit of see.
  • noun. A Scotch form of salve.
  • noun. A keyhole saw; a saw which has a very narrow, thin blade, so that it can turn comers.
  • noun. A circular saw turning in a vertical plane or with its shaft horizontal.
  • noun. 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.
  • noun. A saw-blade together with the handles or frame to which the blade is attached, as a hand-saw, wood-saw, or hack-saw.
  • noun. In zoology and comparative anatomy, a serrated formation or organ, or a serrated arrangement of parts of formations or organs.
  • noun. A sawing-machine, as a scroll-saw or jig-saw.
  • noun. The act of sawing or see-sawing; specifically, in whist [U. S.], same as see-saw, 3 .
  • noun. In surgery, a trephine.
  • noun. 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.
  • noun. (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.)
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • imp. of see.
  • noun. Something said; speech; discourse.
  • noun. A saying; a proverb; a maxim.
  • noun. Dictate; command; decree.
  • intransitive verb. To use a saw; to practice sawing.
  • intransitive verb. To cut, as a saw.
  • intransitive verb. To be cut with a saw.
  • transitive verb. To cut with a saw; to separate with a saw.
  • transitive verb. To form by cutting with a saw.
  • transitive verb. Also used figuratively.
  • noun. 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.
  • noun. See under Band, Crosscut, etc.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. a disk of steel with saw teeth upon its periphery, and revolved on an arbor.
  • noun. a bench or table with a flat top for for sawing, especially with a circular saw which projects above the table.
  • noun. a three-cornered file, such as is used for sharpening saw teeth.
  • noun. the frame or sash in a sawmill, in which the saw, or gang of saws, is held.
  • noun. a saw frame.
  • noun. the form of cotton gin invented by Eli Whitney, in which the cotton fibers are drawn, by the teeth of a set of revolving circular saws, through a wire grating which is too fine for the seeds to pass.
  • Word Usage
    "I saw them on Idol last night and planned to check them out today..saw them on iTunes, but didn't check amazon yet."
    Equivalent
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    sawed  sawing  sawn  
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    Pets  Travel  
    Hypernym
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    Rhyme
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    Baugh  Gaw  Haw  Law  Shaw  
    Same Context
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    axe  chisel  crowbar  cutter  drill  
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    sawn  see  
    verb-form
    sawed  sawing  sawn  saws  
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    see