saw

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/sɑ/

noun 14verb 4name 2intj 1

Collocations

ADJ.

above, far, old, red, strange

I saw a strange bird in our garden that I'd never noticed before.

VERB + SAW

happened, say, train

I saw what happened when the old train derailed near the station yesterday.

SAW + NOUN

fridge, friend, ghost, incidents, man, nothing, people, plane

I saw my friend at the grocery store yesterday and we grabbed coffee together.

PREP.

in, off, with

I saw off my old friend at the train station yesterday afternoon.

ADV.

hardly

I hardly saw him during the entire conference because he kept avoiding eye contact.

Definitions

noun

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

A musical saw.

A sawtooth wave.

The situation where two partners agree to trump a suit alternately, playing that suit to each other for the express purpose.

verb

To cut (something) with a saw.

They were stoned, they were sawen asunder, were tempted, were slaine with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskinnes, and goat skins, being destitute, afflicted, tormented.

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

He said he was sometimes whistling a tune to himself — for, like me, he sawed a good deal on the fiddle; […]

To be cut with a saw.

The timber saws smoothly.

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

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

to saw shingles

noun

Something spoken; speech, discourse.

And for thy trew sawys, and I may lyve many wynters, there was never no knyght better rewardid[…]. And for your true discourses, and I may live many winters, there was never no knight better rewarded[…].

A saying or proverb.

old saw

And then the justice, / In fair round belly with good capon lined, / With eyes severe and beard of formal cut, / Full of wise saws and modern instances.

Opinion, idea, belief.

by thy saw

commune saw

Proposal, suggestion; possibility.

c. 1350-1400, unknown, The Erl of Toulous All they assentyd to the sawe; They thoght he spake reson and lawe.

Dictate; command; decree.

[Love] rules the creatures by his powerful saw.

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Synonyms

noun — a condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fa

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

old saw

A cliché, saying, or overused expression, especially a proverb or maxim.

He's full of old saws, but he's not much for original advice.

saw wood

To snore loudly.

Monsignor Charles Kekumano, 78, was snoring loudly in his bed. Every so often, he would stop sawing wood—and break into the delightfully mischievous grin that made him so famous.

Example Bank

They were stoned, they were sawen asunder, were tempted, were slaine with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskinnes, and goat skins, being destitute, afflicted, tormented.

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He said he was sometimes whistling a tune to himself — for, like me, he sawed a good deal on the fiddle; […]

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The timber saws smoothly.

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old saw

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And then the justice, / In fair round belly with good capon lined, / With eyes severe and beard of formal cut, / Full of wise saws and modern instances.

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Usage Notes

i Register

In some senses, saw is marked as obsolete, archaic, slang, US. Watch for register when choosing this word.

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