saw

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See also: Saw, SAW, sAw, and s'aw

English

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Pronunciation

Etymology 1

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The noun from Middle English sawe, sawgh, from Old English saga, sagu (“saw”), 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.

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.
  3. A sawtooth wave.
Derived terms
Terms derived from saw (noun)

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Descendants
  • Sranan Tongo: sa
Translations
musical saw — see musical saw
sawtooth wave — see sawtooth

Verb

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.
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    They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented;
  2. (intransitive) To make a motion back and forth similar to cutting something with a saw.
    The fiddler sawed away at his instrument.
  3. (intransitive) To be cut with a saw.
    The timber saws smoothly.
  4. (transitive) To form or produce (something) by cutting with a saw.
    to saw boards or planks (i.e. to saw logs or timber into boards or planks)
    to saw shingles; to saw out a panel
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Etymology 2

From Middle English sawe, from Old English sagu, saga (“story, tale, saying, statement, report, narrative, tradition”), from Proto-West Germanic *sagā, from Proto-Germanic *sagō, *sagǭ (“saying, story”), from Proto-Indo-European *sekʷe-, *skʷē-, from *sekʷ- (“to follow”). Cognate with Dutch sage (“saga”), German Sage (“legend, saga, tale, fable”), Danish sagn (“legend”), Norwegian soga (“story”), Icelandic saga (“story, tale, history”). More at saga, say.

Noun

saw (plural saws)

  1. (obsolete) Something spoken; speech, discourse.
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      And for thy trew sawys, and I may lyve many wynters, there was never no knyght better rewardid […].
      And for your true discourses, and I may live many winters, there was never no knight better rewarded […].
  2. A saying or proverb.
    old saw
    • 1599, William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act II Scene VII, lines 152-5.
      And then the justice, / In fair round belly with good capon lined, / With eyes severe and beard of formal cut, / Full of wise saws and modern instances.
    • 1902, Charles Robert Ashbee, Masque of the Edwards of England, page 8.
      At his crowning […] the priest in his honour preached on the saw, 'Vox populi, vox Dei.'
    • 2017, Andrew Marantz, "Becoming Steve Bannon's Bannon", The New Yorker, Feb 13&20 ed.
      There’s an old saw about Washington, D.C., that staffers in their twenties know more about the minutiae of government than their bosses do.
  3. (obsolete) Opinion, idea, belief.
    by thy saw ― in your opinion
    commune saw ― common opinion/knowledge
    on no saw ― by no means
    • (Can we date this quote by Polychronicon Ranulphi Higden and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      Þe more comoun sawe is þat Remus was i-slawe for he leep ouer þe newe walles of Rome.
      The more common opinion is that Remus was slain for he lept over the new walls of Rome.
  4. (obsolete) Proposal, suggestion; possibility.
    • (Can we date this quote by Earl of Toulouse and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      All they assentyd to the sawe; They thoght he spake reson and lawe.
  5. (obsolete) Dictate; command; decree.
    • (Can we date this quote by Spenser and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      [Love] rules the creatures by his powerful saw.
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Etymology 3

Verb

saw

  1. simple past of see

Interjection

saw

  1. (slang) What's up (either as a greeting or actual question).
    — Saw, dude?
    — Not much.

Anagrams

Atong (India)

Pronunciation

Adjective

saw

  1. rotten

Khasi

Khasi cardinal numbers
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    Cardinal : saw

Numeral

saw

  1. four

Kurdish

Noun

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  1. terror
  2. horror

Scots

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

Verb

saw

  1. (South Scots) simple past tense of sei
  2. (Northern and Central) simple past tense of see

Etymology 2

Noun

saw (plural saws)

  1. A salve.

Zhuang

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Proto-Tai *sɯːᴬ (“writing; book”), from Middle Chinese 書 (MC syo, “writing; book”). Cognate with Lao ສື (sư̄, “letter, writing symbols”), Thai สือ (sʉ̌ʉ).

Noun

saw (1957–1982 spelling səɯ)

  1. written language; writing; script
  2. (Chinese) character
  3. word
  4. book
  5. teaching material
  6. receipt; voucher
Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Proto-Tai *saɰᴬ (“clear; clean”). Cogante with Thai ใส (sǎi, “clear; transparent”).

Adjective

saw (1957–1982 spelling səɯ)

  1. clean
  2. (of transparent objects, water, etc.) clear
  3. (of liquids other than water) watery; thin

Etymology 3

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “from 輸?”)

Verb

saw (1957–1982 spelling səɯ)

  1. to lose
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