saw

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Pronunciation 1.2 Etymology 1 1.2.1 Noun 1.2.1.1 Derived terms 1.2.1.2 Translations 1.2.2 Verb 1.2.2.1 Related terms 1.2.2.2 Translations 1.3 Etymology 2 1.3.1 Noun 1.3.1.1 Synonyms 1.3.1.2 Translations 1.4 Etymology 3 1.4.1 Verb 1.5 Anagrams 2 Kurdish 2.1 Noun 3 Scots 3.1 Pronunciation 3.2 Verb

[edit] English

Wikipedia

[edit] Pronunciation

• (RP) enPR: sô, IPA: /sɔː/, SAMPA: /sO:/

  Homophones: (in some non-rhotic accents): soar, sore

• (GenAm, cot–caught merger) enPR: sô, IPA: /sɑː/, SAMPA: /sA:/

  (idiosyncratic, past tense of 'see') IPA: /sɑːl/

• (US) enPR: sô, IPA: /sɔ/, SAMPA: /sO/

   Audio (US)^{help, file}

• Rhymes: -ɔː

[edit] Etymology 1

Old English saga. Cognate with Dutch zaag.

[edit] Noun

saw (plural saws)

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

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to saw (third-person singular simple present saws, present participle sawing, simple past sawed, past participle sawed or sawn)

1. (transitive) To cut (something) with a saw.
2. (intransitive) To make a motion back and forth similar to cutting something with a saw.

   The fiddler sawed away at his instrument.

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• saw wood

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[edit] Etymology 2

Old English sagu. Cognate with German Sage. Compare saga.

[edit] Noun

saw (plural saws)

1. (obsolete) Something spoken; speech, discourse.
   • 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 [...].

2. (often old saw) A saying or proverb.

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• See also Wikisaurus:saying

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[edit] Etymology 3

See see.

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saw

1. Simple past of see.

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• Alphagram: ASW
• was

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[edit] Noun

saw

1. terror
2. horror

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[edit] Scots

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /sa/ (Doric & most Southern Scots dialects)
• IPA: /sɔ/ (Central & some Southern Scots dialects)

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saw

1. (South Scots) Simple past of sei.
2. (N. & C. Scots) Simple past of see.