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Meaning of saw

Source language: EnglishDictionary language: English

saw

Pronunciation:/sɔː//sɔ/

noun

Definitions

  1. A tool with a toothed blade used for cutting hard substances, in particular wood or metal

  2. A musical saw.

  3. A sawtooth wave.

verb

Definitions

  1. To cut (something) with a saw.

    Example: They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented;

  2. To make a motion back and forth similar to cutting something with a saw.

    Example: The fiddler sawed away at his instrument.

  3. To be cut with a saw.

    Example: The timber saws smoothly.

  4. To form or produce (something) by cutting with a saw.

    Example: to saw boards or planks (i.e. to saw logs or timber into boards or planks)

saw

Pronunciation:/sɔː//sɔ/

noun

Definitions

  1. Something spoken; speech, discourse.

  2. A saying or proverb.

    Example: old saw

  3. Opinion, idea, belief.

    Example: by thy saw

  4. Proposal, suggestion; possibility.

saw

Pronunciation:/sɔː//sɔ/

interjection

Definitions

  1. What's up (either as a greeting or actual question).

    Example: — Saw, dude? — Not much.

verb

Definitions

  1. (stative) To perceive or detect with the eyes, or as if by sight.

  2. To form a mental picture of.

  3. (social) To meet, to visit.

  4. To be the setting or time of.

    Example: 1999 saw the release of many great films.