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   Saw

   /sô/

   

   noun

   • 1. a hand tool for cutting wood or other materials, typically with a long, thin serrated steel blade and operated using a backward and forward movement.
   • ▪ a mechanical power-driven tool for cutting, typically with a toothed rotating disk or moving band.
   • ▪ a serrated organ or part, such as the toothed snout of a sawfish.

   verb

   • 1. cut (something) using a saw: "the top of each post is sawed off at railing height"
   • ▪ make or form (something) using a saw: "the seats are sawn from well-seasoned elm planks"
   • ▪ cut (something) as if with a saw, especially roughly or so as to leave rough or unfinished edges: "the woman sawed off all my lovely hair"
   • 2. make rapid to-and-fro motions in cutting something or in playing a stringed instrument: "he was sawing away energetically at the loaf"

   Word Origin Old Englishsaga, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch zaag.

   Derivatives

   • 1. sawlike adjective

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   What is a saw blade used for?

   • : a hand or power tool or a machine used to cut hard material (such as wood, metal, or bone) and equipped usually with a toothed blade or disk : maxim, proverb Verb He sawed the boards in half. This blade is too dull for sawing. Noun it's an old saw that a red sunset presages fair skies the next day

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   What is the meaning of saw?

   • 1. To cut or divide with a saw. 2. To produce or shape with a saw: sawed a hole in the board. 3. To make back-and-forth motions through or on: a speaker who saws the air with his arms. 1. To use a saw: sawing along the chalk line. 2. To undergo cutting with a saw: Pine wood saws easily.

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   What do you mean by cutting with a saw?

   • 1. a tool or device for cutting, typically a thin blade of metal with a series of sharp teeth. 2. any similar tool or device, as a rotating disk, in which a sharp continuous edge replaces the teeth. 3. to cut or divide with a saw. 4. to form by cutting with a saw. 5. to make cutting motions as if using a saw: to saw the air with one's hands.

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   How do you use a saw in a sentence?

   • A saw is a tool for cutting wood, which has a blade with sharp teeth along one edge. Some saws are pushed backwards and forwards by hand, and others are powered by electricity . 3. See also chain saw If you saw something, you cut it with a saw. He escaped by sawing through the bars of his cell. [VERB preposition/adverb] Your father is sawing wood.

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   Saw is a verb that means to cut with a saw or to move something backwards and forwards as if using a saw. Saw is also a noun that means a tool with a blade or a short sentence that states something true or useful.

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   Saw can be a verb meaning to cut with a tool, or a noun meaning a tool with a blade. It can also be a past tense of see, or an old-fashioned saying. Learn more with examples and pronunciation.

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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.

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   A saw is a tool that's used to cut wood. It can be a hand tool or a power tool, and it usually has either a blade or a disk with a jagged cutting edge.

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