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noun

a tool or device for cutting, typically a thin blade of metal with a series of sharp teeth.

any similar tool or device, as a rotating disk, in which a sharp continuous edge replaces the teeth.

verb (used with object)

to cut or divide with a saw.

to form by cutting with a saw.

to make cutting motions as if using a saw: to saw the air with one's hands.

to work (something) from side to side like a saw.

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verb (used without object)

to use a saw.

to cut with or as if with a saw.

to cut as a saw does.

Idiom

10.

saw wood, Informal. to snore loudly while sleeping.

Origin:
before 1000; (noun) Middle English sawe, Old English saga, *sagu; cognate with Dutch zaag, Old Norse sǫg; akin to German Säge saw, Latin secāre to cut (see section), Old English seax knife, sax²; (v.) Middle English sawen, derivative of the noun

Related forms

saw·er, noun

saw·like, adjective

Example Sentences

For instance, they saw a bright future for e-textbooks.

Those unlucky enough to live through the bear markets saw their savings turn to dust.

They saw lots of activity in upper parts of the brain when dieters exercised restraint.

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For instance, they saw a bright future for e-textbooks.

Those unlucky enough to live through the bear markets saw their savings turn to dust.

They saw lots of activity in upper parts of the brain when dieters exercised restraint.

She saw psychologists and began meditating, embarking on a nine-year psychological journey.

While he was thus inflamed, he saw a seraph with six shining, fiery wings descend from heaven.

We went down under the red crags where it's really shady and saw bighorn sheep.

After his birth he was sold away and never saw his mother again.

Each of those three great bear markets saw enormous global problems-world wars, depressions and stagflation.

Trophy hunters may seek out sawfish to collect the impressive saw.

When they saw the squares again paired with shocks up to a year later, they were slow to relearn their fear of the squares.

From the moment he first saw it, he knew the place was extraordinary.

The unusual pattern is easy to create with a saber saw.

She saw nothing wrong with sending the e-mail, which was clearly inflammatory.

The upshot was that those who saw the eyes rated both misdemeanours as more serious than those who saw the flowers.

We saw this one that runs on a rail to film athletes running around the track.

My guess is that you saw a man-made satellite trail.

The month saw only scattered military action as generals on both sides deliberated their next move.

If that is not possible, use a circular saw equipped with a masonry blade to cut a channel that you can slide the lintel into.

Some critics saw his project as a sort of suicide, and he did not altogether dispute that.

On their third day, at the entrance to a small and moist cave, the scientists first saw one of the tiny lizards skitter past.

Later the volunteers saw the individual scenes again and had to pick the matching faces.

What he saw was that brewery energetics could be applied to solve the robot power problem.

Clamp or tack a saw guide to the posts to ensure a safe and accurate cut with a circular saw.

We saw many of them on safari, mostly in shrubbery by the side of the road.

They saw that the cells frequently engulfed the tubes-almost always tip-first.

By comparison, the dinosaur era saw no glaciers and was relatively moderate pole to pole.

In actuality, from orbit the astronauts saw it differently.

Radioactivity limits the potential for recycling, except for one infamous particle smasher that never saw the light of day.

The poor man, she said, was so idle that she saw him staring at an ant heap for a whole hour.

Basically, your brain will tell you whether an item is a threat even before you know you saw it.

When he came to, he saw that the driver was seriously injured.

He began to pay closer attention to the lyrics and saw a connection with the footage he had captured.

They also boosted yields and saw better health, a new study says.

Submarine with a chain saw for eco-friendly logging.

She saw all the usual sights, but her favorite story was about riding in the same elevator with.

We saw that exponential improvements in computer capabilities would make great software quite valuable.

Many private colleges saw declines in endowment values in recent years, but those were essentially paper losses, the report says.

She saw a hotel as the modern equivalent of a caravanserai, an inn where a traveller.

The saw blade bites into the hardwood and spits out yellow sawdust and rivulets of foul-smelling sap the color of blood.

Radioactivity limits the potential for recycling, except for one infamous particle smasher that never saw the light of.

He saw himself as the steward-not the owner-of the.

The military doctors he saw blamed his smoking habit:.

Though she felt she had pulled even with him, he never saw her that way or gave her writing equal space with his pictures.

Looking into her eyes i saw the pain of an untold story of her future.

The marks effectively masked the cue so that no subject ever consciously saw this quartet.

Their names were well known to the people who commissioned artworks and often to the people who saw them.

When she saw a storage device for nursery pots and other small.

The country he saw after he was freed bore no resemblance to the one he knew before his confinement.

The swinging sixties also saw the advent of containerisation in shipping.

We also saw a huge tree filled with lots of monkeys.

She happened to wake up while the tooth was being exchanged for money and saw exactly who was making the switch: her father.

When he saw or heard something that pleased him, his face would light up with an impish smile.

Europe saw the fifth monthly rise in a row, with more openings in production and manufacturing.

The little sister, however, was dreadfully frightened when she saw that her fawn was hurt.

As he watched a family stop to take a picture of the figure, he saw his future.

But several countries saw a spurt in people applying for refuge.

None of the mini-subs ever saw their mother ships again.

The inspiration was the old saw that no two snowflakes are alike.

Use a butcher's knife or pruning saw to cut the clump into quarters.

Several partygoers saw the murder and dozens more watched as the killer fled.

We saw a caiman and two capybaras on the way there.

Many of the rest are alumni who knew a good thing when they saw it and found reason to stay.

Where two walls adjoin, use a circular saw with a masonry blade to.

Both men saw themselves as improvers of the lot of man and woman, and so they were.

Early settlers saw the continent's forested wildlands as a fearful challenge.

Then they saw an unrelated picture and had to describe.

They saw a homeless man leaving a shop and started to bully him.

We saw babies playing and male elephants pretending to fight.

The shark flashed a jagged smile of ivory saw teeth and then slipped back into the sea.

Linnaeus sought to reveal what he saw as the divine order of the natural world so that it might be exploited for human benefit.

The sky grew new colors, shades of orange that a sunset never saw.

Hedges saw that the number of flaws increased over time.

Ask them whether they saw an animal and they consider themselves to be making a futile guess.

Freud saw how anthropocentric tendencies in humans were consistently clobbered as the frontiers of science moved outward.

They saw that it consisted of a package of complex biochemicals.

As a small child when anyone saw me handle my spoon or fork with my left hand, it was immediately corrected to my right hand.

They also saw that those that disagreed tended to disappear or die.

Victims who saw and suffered enormous losses from the storm had new acute mental health needs.

To get the major components out of the dome, workers used a diamond saw.

Faced with a deadline, volunteers saw difficult and complex tasks as looming all too close.

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verb

simple past tense of see¹.

noun

a sententious saying; maxim; proverb: He could muster an old saw for every occasion.

Origin:
before 950; Middle English; Old English sagu; cognate with German Sage, Old Norse saga saga; akin to say¹

verb (used with object)

to perceive with the eyes; look at.

to view; visit or attend as a spectator: to see a play.

to perceive by means of computer vision.

to scan or view, especially by electronic means: The satellite can see the entire southern half of the country.

to perceive (things) mentally; discern; understand: to see the point of an argument.

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to construct a mental image of; visualize: He still saw his father as he was 25 years ago.

to accept or imagine or suppose as acceptable: I can't see him as president.

to be cognizant of; recognize: to see the good in others; to see where the mistake is.

to foresee: He could see war ahead.

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to ascertain, learn, or find out: See who is at the door.

11.

to have knowledge or experience of: to see service in the foreign corps.

12.

to make sure: See that the work is done.

13.

to meet and converse with: Are you seeing her at lunch today?

14.

to receive as a visitor: The ambassador finally saw him.

15.

to visit: He's gone to see his aunt.

16.

to court, keep company with, or date frequently: They've been seeing each other for a long time.

17.

to provide aid or assistance to; take care of: He's seeing his brother through college.

18.

to attend or escort: to see someone home.

19.

Cards. to match (a bet) or match the bet of (a bettor) by staking an equal sum; call: I'll see your five and raise you five more.

20.

to prefer (someone or something) to be as indicated (usually used as a mild oath): I'll see you in hell before I sell you this house. He'll see the business fail before he admits he's wrong.

21.

to read or read about: I saw it in the newspaper.

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verb (used without object)

22.

to have the power of sight.

23.

to be capable of perceiving by means of computer vision.

24.

to understand intellectually or spiritually; have insight: Philosophy teaches us to see.

25.

to give attention or care: See, there it goes.

26.

to find out; make inquiry: Go and see for yourself.

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27.

to consider; think; deliberate: Let me see, how does that song go?

28.

to look about; observe: They heard the noise and came out to see.

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Verb phrases

29.

see about,

to investigate; inquire about.

to turn one's attention to; take care of: He said he would see about getting the license plates.

30.

see after, to attend to; take care of: Will you please see after my plants while I'm away?

31.

see off, to take leave of someone setting out on a journey; accompany to the place of departure: I went to the airport to see them off.

32.

see out, to remain with (a task, project, etc.) until its completion: We decided to see it out, even if it meant another year.

33.

see through,

to penetrate to the true nature of; comprehend; detect: He quickly saw through my story.

to stay with to the end or until completion; persevere: to see a difficult situation through.

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34.

see to, to take care of; be responsible for: I'll see to the theater tickets.

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Origin:
before 900; Middle English seen, Old English sēon; cognate with Dutch zien, German sehen, Old Norse sjā, Gothic saihwan

Related forms

see·a·ble, adjective

see·a·ble·ness, noun

un·see·a·ble, adjective

Synonyms
1. observe, notice, distinguish, discern, behold, regard. See watch. 5. comprehend, penetrate. 10. determine. 11. know, undergo. 18. accompany.

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World English Dictionary

saw¹ (sɔː)

—n
1.	any of various hand tools for cutting wood, metal, etc, having a blade with teeth along one edge
2.	any of various machines or devices for cutting by use of a toothed blade, such as a power-driven circular toothed wheel or toothed band of metal

—vb , saws, sawing, sawed, sawed, sawn
3.	to cut with a saw
4.	to form by sawing
5.	to cut as if wielding a saw: to saw the air
6.	to move (an object) from side to side as if moving a saw

[Old English sagu; related to Old Norse sog, Old High German saga, Latin secāre to cut, secūris axe]

'sawer¹

—n

'sawlike¹

—*adj*

saw² (sɔː)

—vb
	the past tense of see

saw³ (sɔː)

—n
	a wise saying, maxim, or proverb

[Old English sagu a saying; related to saga]

SAW

—*abbreviation for*
	surface acoustic wave

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Word Origin & History

saw

"cutting tool," O.E. sagu, from P.Gmc. *sago "a cutting tool" (cf. O.E. seax "knife," O.N. sõg, Norw. sag, Dan. sav, M.Du. saghe, Du. zaag, O.H.G. saga, Ger. Säge "saw"), from PIE base *sak-/*sek- "to cut" (cf. L. secare "to cut," Rus. sech' "to cut;" see

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section). The verb is attested from early 13c.; strong conjugation began 15c. on model of draw, etc. Sawbones "surgeon" is 1837 slang; sawdust is 1520s; sawhorse recorded from 1778; sawfish first attested 1660s. The personal name Sawyer is attested from mid-13c. (cf. lawyer). Sawed-off "short, cut short" is attested 1887 of persons, 1898 of shotguns.

saw

"proverb," O.E. sagu "saying, discourse, speech," from P.Gmc. *saga-, *sagon- (cf. M.L.G., M.Du. sage, zage, Ger. sage "legend, fable, saga, myth, tradition," O.N. saga "story, tale, saga") from the root of O.E. secgan "say" (see say).

see

"position of a bishop," c.1300, from O.Fr. sied, sed, from L. sedem (nom. sedes) "seat, abode," related to sedere "to sit" (see sedentary).

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Slang Dictionary

see definition

tv.
to equal someone's bet in poker. : I see your five and raise you ten.

Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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