Definition/Meaning of saw

• English - Noun: saw (plural saws) (usually) A tool used for cutting hard substance s, in particular wood or metal .: Such a tool with a toothed blade . Meronyms: sawtooth < sawblade (sometimes) Such a tool with an abrasive coating instead of teeth . A musical saw . A sawtooth wave . The situation where two partner s agree to trump a suit alternately, playing that suit to each other for the express purpose. saw…
• English - Verb: saw (third-person singular simple present saws, present participle sawing, simple past sawed, past participle sawed or sawn) (transitive) To cut (something) with a saw. 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Hebrews 11:37: They were stoned, they were sawen asunder, were tempted, were slaine with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskinnes, and…
• English - Anagrams: ASW was
• English - Etymology: Etymology 1. 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”), Faroese , Norwegian Bokmål , and Norwegian Nynorsk sag (“saw”), Swedish såg (“saw”),…
• English - Pronunciation: (Northern England, Received Pronunciation, Wales) IPA: /sɔː/ (Australia, British, New Zealand, Southern, Standard) IPA: /soː/ (General American) IPA: /sɔ/ , [sɔɹ] (General American, cot caught merger) IPA: /sɑ/ (Canada) IPA: /sɒ/ (Scotland) IPA: /sɔ/ IPA: /sɑl/ Rhymes: -ɔː Homophone: soar Homophone: sore (non-rhotic, horse–hoarse merger) Homophone: soar Homophone: sore (non-rhotic, horse–hoarse…