saw

Meaning

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

• Verb
• Intj
• Noun
• Noun

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Synonyms

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

Translations

scie

Säge

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sega

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sierra

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scier

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zaag

🪚

serra

🪚

serra

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πριόνι

sägen

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zagen

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serrucho

testere

segare

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Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈsɔː/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: sawe

Inherited from Old English: saga

Cognate with Western Frisian: seage

Cognate with Dutch: zaag

Cognate with German: Säge

Cognate with Danish: sav

Cognate with Swedish: såg

Cognate with Icelandic: sög

Cognate with Latin: secō

Cognate with Italian: sega

Inherited from 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.

Sentences

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 .