saw

(Engels)

Noun

1. A tool with a toothed blade used for cutting hard substances, in particular wood or metal.
2. A tool with a toothed blade used for cutting hard substances, in particular wood or metal.
3. A musical saw.
4. A sawtooth wave.
5. The situation where two partners agree to trump a suit alternately, playing that suit to each other for the express purpose.

Verb

1. (transitive) To cut (something) with a saw.
2. (intransitive) To make a motion back and forth similar to cutting something with a saw.
3. (intransitive) To be cut with a saw.
4. (transitive) To form or produce (something) by cutting with a saw.

Verb

1. (form-of, past) simple past of see
2. (colloquial, form-of, nonstandard, participle, past) past participle of see

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see

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• Intj
• Noun
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Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/ˈsɔː/

Etimologie (Engels)

Geërf van Middle English: sawe

Geërf van Old English: saga

Verwante met Fries: seage

Verwante met Nederlands: zaag

Verwante met Duits: Säge

Verwante met Deens: sav

Verwante met Sweeds: såg

Verwante met Yslands: sög

Verwante met Latyn: secō

Verwante met Italiaans: sega

Geërf van Middle English: sawen

In summary

The noun from Middle English sawe, sawgh, from Old English saga, sagu (“saw”), from Proto-West Germanic *sagu, from Proto-Germanic *sagô, *sagō (“saw”), from Proto-Indo-European *sek- (“to cut”).
Cognate with West Frisian seage (“saw”), Dutch zaag (“saw”), German Säge (“saw”), Danish sav (“saw”), Swedish såg (“saw”), Icelandic sög (“saw”), and through Indo-European, with Latin secō (“cut”) and Italian sega (“saw”).
The verb from Middle English sawen, from the noun above.

Sinonieme

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saying

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cut

slice

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cut out

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Sinne

I never saw this thing before in my life .

I saw what was at the bottom of all this .

I really liked the film we saw last week .

As soon as he saw me among the crowd , he called to me to come down .

I saw it just inches away before it hit me .

The boy saw a man appear behind the counter .