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saw
1[saw]
noun
a tool or device for cutting, typically a thin blade of metal with a series of sharp teeth.
any similar tool or device, as a rotating disk, in which a sharp continuous edge replaces the teeth.
verb (used with object)
to cut or divide with a saw.
to form by cutting with a saw.
to make cutting motions as if using a saw.
to saw the air with one's hands.
to work (something) from side to side like a saw.
verb (used without object)
to use a saw.
to cut with or as if with a saw.
to cut as a saw does.
saw
2[saw]
verb
simple past tense of see.
saw
1/ sɔː /
noun
any of various hand tools for cutting wood, metal, etc, having a blade with teeth along one edge
any of various machines or devices for cutting by use of a toothed blade, such as a power-driven circular toothed wheel or toothed band of metal
verb
to cut with a saw
to form by sawing
to cut as if wielding a saw
to saw the air
to move (an object) from side to side as if moving a saw
SAW
2abbreviation
surface acoustic wave
saw
3/ sɔː /
verb
the past tense of see 1
saw
4/ sɔː /
noun
a wise saying, maxim, or proverb
Other Word Forms
- sawer noun
- sawlike adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of saw1
Word History and Origins
Origin of saw1
Origin of saw2
Example Sentences
The Liberal Democrats saw a significant boost in membership in the run-up to Brexit in 2020, when the party was campaigning for a second referendum.
My family had sold it long ago, but I visited Verkhnya Krynytsya at least once a year before it was occupied, and saw the house sitting apparently abandoned, its garden overgrown.
"I saw displaced children just spending their time in queues for food and water - not having a childhood, and I wanted to do something, for them," she says.
“If we saw evidence of smoke or heat, then we would provide resources to that. So that, I know that’s a common practice, and it’s just, it’s a very difficult fire burning underground.”
He said he first met the parents in 1995, before Rinderknecht was born, but watched him grow up to a teenager, which was about the last time he saw him.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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