Saw

Noun

 * 1) A tool with a toothed blade used for cutting hard substances, in particular wood or metal
 * 2) A musical saw.

Derived terms

 * backsaw
 * band saw
 * chainsaw
 * chop saw
 * circular saw
 * coping saw
 * crosscut saw


 * hacksaw
 * handsaw
 * hole saw
 * Japanese-style handsaw
 * jigsaw
 * miter saw, mitre saw
 * power saw


 * razor-tooth saw
 * reciprocating saw
 * rip saw
 * sawbones
 * sawtooth
 * scroll saw
 * table saw

Verb

 * 1)  To cut (something) with a saw.
 * 2)  To make a motion back and forth similar to cutting something with a saw.
 * The fiddler sawed away at his instrument.

Related terms

 * saw wood

Noun

 * 1)  Something spoken; speech, discourse.
 * 2) * 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book V:
 * And for thy trew sawys, and I may lyve many wynters, there was never no knyght better rewardid [...].
 * 1) (often old saw) A saying or proverb.

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:saying

Verb
saw



Thesaurus
Vandyke edge, adage, amputate, ana, analects, aphorism, apothegm, ax, axiom, backsaw, band saw, belt saw, bisect, bow, bow saw, bucksaw, butcher, buzz saw, byword, carve, catchword, chain saw, chop, circular saw, cleave, cockscomb, collected sayings, compass saw, coping saw, cordwood saw, crenation, crenelation, crenulation, crest, crosscut saw, current saying, cut, cut away, cut in two, cut off, deckle edge, denticulation, dentil, dentil band, diamond saw, dichotomize, dictate, dictum, dissever, distich, dogtooth, double-cut saw, dovetail saw, epigram, excise, expression, fiddle, fissure, frame saw, fretsaw, gash, gnome, golden saying, hack, hacksaw, halve, handsaw, helicoidal saw, hew, incise, jigsaw, keyhole saw, lance, maxim, meat saw, mill saw, moral, mot, motto, notching, oracle, panel saw, pare, phrase, pit saw, pithy saying, play violin, portable saw, power saw, precept, prescript, proverb, proverbial saying, proverbs, prune, pruning saw, rend, rickrack, ripsaw, rive, rock saw, saw knife, saw machine, saw teeth, saying, scallop, scissor, scrape, scribe saw, scroll saw, sentence, sententious expression, serration, sever, slash, slice, slit, sloka, snip, split, splitsaw, stock saying, sunder, sutra, table saw, teaching, tear, text, two-handed saw, verse, vertical saw, whipsaw, whittle, wire saw, wisdom, wisdom literature, wise saying, witticism, wood saw, word, words of wisdom

Pronunciation

 * Homophones: (in some non-rhotic accents): soar, sore
 * (idiosyncratic, past tense of 'see')
 * (idiosyncratic, past tense of 'see')
 * (idiosyncratic, past tense of 'see')
 * (idiosyncratic, past tense of 'see')
 * (idiosyncratic, past tense of 'see')

Etymology 1
saga. Cognate with Dutch zaag.

Etymology 2
From sawe:, from  sagu:, saga:, from, from. Cognate with sage:,  Sage:,  sagn:,  soga:,  saga:. More at,.

Etymology 3
See see.

Noun

 * Arabic:
 * Armenian: սղոց (sġoc')
 * Bosnian:, ,
 * Catalan: serra
 * Chinese: 鋸子, 锯子 (jùzǐ)
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: Säge
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: מסור
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 鋸 (のこぎり, nokogiri)
 * Korean: 톱 (top)
 * Kurdish:


 * Latin:
 * Latvian: zāģis
 * Lithuanian: pjūklas
 * Macedonian:
 * Maltese: serrieq, sega
 * Persian: (arreh)
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:, serrote
 * Romanian: ferăstrău
 * Russian:
 * Sicilian:
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: రంపము (raMpamu)
 * Thai: เลื่อย
 * Turkmen: byçgy
 * West Frisian: seage

Verb

 * American Sign Language:
 * Arabic: نشر
 * Bosnian: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: segi
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek: πριονίζω
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 挽く,


 * Korean: 켜다 (kyeoda), 썰다 (sseolda)
 * Kurdish: mişar kirin, bi mişarê birrîn
 * Latin:
 * Latvian: zāģēt
 * Macedonian:
 * Persian: (arreh kardan)
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: пилить
 * Scottish Gaelic: sàbh
 * Sicilian:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:


 * Finnish:
 * Greek: πριονίζω


 * Korean: 켜다 (kyeoda) (e.g.: violin)
 * Swahili:

Noun

 * Dutch: gezegde, spreuk, spreekwoord
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Greek: απόφθεγμα, ρήση
 * Indonesian: amsal, peri bahasa, petitih
 * Italian:
 * Kurdish: pend, gotina pêşiyan


 * Macedonian:, ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:

Anagrams

 * ASW
 * was

Noun

 * 1) terror
 * 2) horror

Verb
saw


 * 1) (N. & C. Scots)
 * 1) (N. & C. Scots)

Pronunciation

 * (Doric & most Southern Scots dialects)
 * (Central & some Southern Scots dialects)