saw

Signification (Anglais)

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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Concepts

scie

scier

🪚

proverbe

sentence

vu

adage

scie à main

scierie

sierra

couper

virent

dicton

lime

vit

Synonymes

propeller

bow

🙇

winch

thruster

televisor

thruster machinery compartment

shackle

thrust propeller

rudder

maneuvering device

proverb

drill

adage

saying

byword

cut

slice

split

dictum

slit

power saw

motto

maxim

sawing machine

cut up

chop

cut out

cut throat

hack

hew

slaughter

handsaw

hash

#️⃣

axe

🪓

jag

lop

mangle

flitch

moral

file

musical saw

mutilate

nagger

oration

fell

disk saw

disfigure

pull

push

rasp

Traductions

Säge

🪚

sega

🪚

sierra

🪚

zaag

🪚

serra

🪚

serra

🪚

πριόνι

sägen

🪚

serrucho

testere

zagen

🪚

segare

🪚

πριονίζω

serrar

🪚

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ˈsɔː/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: sawe

Hérité de ancien anglais: saga

Appartenant à frison occidental: seage

Appartenant à néerlandais: zaag

Appartenant à allemand: Säge

Appartenant à danois: sav

Appartenant à suédois: såg

Appartenant à islandais: sög

Appartenant à latin: secō

Appartenant à italien: sega

Hérité de moyen anglais: 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.

Phrases

I never saw this thing before in my life .

Je n'ai jamais vu cette chose auparavant dans ma vie.

I saw what was at the bottom of all this .

J'ai vu ce qui était au bas de tout cela.

I really liked the film we saw last week .

J'ai vraiment aimé le film que nous avons vu la semaine dernière.

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

Dès qu'il m'a vu parmi la foule, il m'a appelé à descendre.

I saw it just inches away before it hit me .

The boy saw a man appear behind the counter .

Le garçon a vu un homme apparaître derrière le comptoir.