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Definition: Saw |
SawNoun1. A condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people. 2. Hand tool having a toothed blade for cutting. 3. A power tool for cutting wood. Verb1. Cut with a saw; "saw wood for the fireplace". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "saw" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Satire | SAW, n. A trite popular saying, or proverb. (Figurative and colloquial.) So called because it makes its way into a wooden head. Following are examples of old saws fitted with new teeth. A penny saved is a penny to squander. A man is known by the company that he organizes. A bad workman quarrels with the man who calls him that. A bird in the hand is worth what it will bring. Better late than before anybody has invited you. Example is better than following it. Half a loaf is better than a whole one if there is much else. Think twice before you speak to a friend in need. What is worth doing is worth the trouble of asking somebody to do it. Least said is soonest disavowed. He laughs best who laughs least. Speak of the Devil and he will hear about it. Of two evils choose to be the least. Strike while your employer has a big contract. Where there's a will there's a won't. Source: Devil's Dictionary. |
Dream Interpretation | To dream that you use a hand-saw, indicates an energetic and busy time, and cheerful home life. To see big saws in machinery, foretells that you will superintend a big enterprise, and the same will yield fair returns. For a woman, this dream denotes that she will be esteemed, and her counsels will be heeded. To dream of rusty or broken saws, denotes failure and accidents. To lose a saw, you will engage in affairs which will culminate in disaster. To hear the buzz of a saw, indicates thrift and prosperity. To find a rusty saw, denotes that you will probably restore your fortune. To carry a saw on your back, foretells that you will carry large, but profitable, responsibilities. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Literature | Saw In Christian art an attribute of St. Simon and St. James the Less, in allusion to the tradition of their being sawn to death in martyrdom. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Slang in 1811 | SAW. An old saw; an ancient proverbial saying. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A saw is a tool for cutting wood or other material, consisting of a blade with the edge dentated or toothed and worked either by hand or by steam, water, electric or other power.
According to Greek mythology, the saw was invented by Talos, the nephew of Daedalos.
Types of Saws
- Ripsaw - for cutting along the grain
- Circular saw - machine-driven for industrial sawing of logs and beams
- Chainsaw - motor-driven, for felling trees
- Band saw - with motor-driven continuous band
- Bow saw - thin blade pulled taut by a twisted cord
- Coping saw - thin blade tensioned by a metal frame
- Floorboard saw - with curved blade
- Padsaw or Keyhole saw - with narrow pointed blade
- Hacksaw - for cutting metal
- Tenon saw - with blade stiffened for accurate cuts
- Jigsaw - narrow blade for cutting irregular shapes
- Log saw or bucksaw - for fast, rough cutting
- Two-man saw - for cutting large logs
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Saw."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A squad assault weapon, (abbrev. SAW) is a light machine gun, usually using a 7.62mm calibre or 5.56mm calibre rifle bullet. It provides fire support for a squad of infantrymen, a small group of four to ten soldiers.The basic use of this weapon is to force the enemy to go to ground during an assault. This permits an assault to overrun the enemy position with less hazard.
Therefore, a SAW must be light enough for an individual soldier to carry.
A SAW can also be used to defend against a massed assault. It is less effective in this role, because it lacks the heavy water cooled barrels of heavy defensive machine guns. Many SAWs (such as the RPK74 and M249) are "stretch" versions of assault rifles. They therefore fire from closed bolts and can cook-off rounds if they get too hot. In heavy defense, a SAW may overheat.
Most SAWs in current operation are derived from only three basic patterns: Kalashnikov (Either RPK or RPK74), the Stoner Weapons System, or FN-FAL M249.
Doctrine
The SAW is a response to problems caused by equipping troops with a simple assault rifle. Classical assault rifles provided a machine gun function, but troops too often became excited in combat, and wasted large amounts of ammunition. Therefore, in many modern armies, military doctrine requires the average soldier to avoid using his weapon's fully automatic mode unless defending against a mass assault or an ambush.
This doctrine greatly reduces logistics loads, including combat pack weights, and aerial resupply and fuel requirements. It reduces training requirements and expense. It also extends patrol time for a typical soldier.
The problem is that this doctrine provides no fire support during an assault. The SAW was invented so that a machine gun could be carried on assaults. It is a specialist weapon to avoid unnecessary use of ammunition, and reduce both the training and combat pack loads of of a squad.
When applied to civil or irregular militia, this doctrine makes private purchase of ammunition affordable, and allows militia to train and operate with standard military doctrines using non-military repeating rifles. In war time, such lightly-equipped civil militia can be easily upgraded by distributing relatively few SAWs, one per squad, and training.
Further benefits:
See also weapon, assault rifle, rifle. M249 and RPK74
- Training is reduced. Fully automatic rifles require large amounts of expensive fully automatic live-fire training before troops learn to actually hit targets. SAW doctrine reduces training costs by limiting this training to a few picked specialists, usually the men who carry the weapon and its spare ammunition.
- Effectiveness is better. Automatic fire is more difficult to aim. It is therefore less likely to hit an incapacitating part of the enemy's anatomy. A SAW usually shoots heavier bullets, or higher speeds than an army's standard assault rifle. This makes it more effective than an assault rifle with automatic fire.
- The equipment is more reliable. A practical assault rifle also needs to be very light weight, and is therefore prone to overheat or wear under the hard duty of fully-automatic fire. Because it's carried by a specialist, with a specialized pack load, a SAW can have a heavier barrel, and a sturdier action without unduly burdening the squad.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Squad assault weapon."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
SAW | Dutch | Akoestische oppervlaktegolf | Physics |
SAW | English | Solid Active Waste | Nuclear Energy & Physics |
SAW | Italian | Onda acustica superficiale Sono stati introdotti nel mercato filtri ad onda acustica superficiale(SAW)destinati ai telefoni cellulari a stan-dard statunitensi.Realizzati su substrato monocristallino in contenitore ceramico con impedenza di 50 W....... | Abbreviation |
SAW | Spanish | Onda acústica de superficie | Physics |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: SawSynonyms: adage (n), byword (n), power saw (n), proverb (n), sawing machine (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Disjunction | Sunder, divide, subdivide, sever, dissever, abscind; circumcise; cut; incide, incise; saw, snip, nib, nip, cleave, rive, rend, slit, split, splinter, chip, crack, snap, break, tear, burst; rend; rend asunder, rend in twain; wrench, rupture, shiver, cranch, crunch, craunch, chop; cut up, rip up; hack, hew, slash; whittle; haggle, hackle, discind, lacerate, scamble, mangle, gash, hash, slice. |
Dissection anatomy; decomposition; cutting instrument; (sharpness); buzzsaw, circular saw, rip saw. | |
Indication | Make a sign; n. signalize; underscore; give a signal, hang out a signal; beckon; nod; wink, glance, leer, nudge, shrug, tip the wink; gesticulate; raise the finger, hold up the finger, raise the hand, hold up the hand; saw the air, "suit the action to the word". |
Maxim | Noun: maxim, aphorism; apothegm, apophthegm; dictum, saying, adage, saw, proverb; sentence, mot, motto, word, byword, moral, phylactery, protasis. |
Notch | Embrasure, battlement, machicolation; saw, tooth, crenelle, scallop, scollop, vandyke; depression; jag. |
Unconformity | I could hardly believe it; I saw it, but I didn't believe it. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | That's right, the same plants and flowers that saw you crawl from the primordial soup will reclaim the planet (Batman & Robin; writing credit: Akiva Goldsman) Every time you've heard someone say they saw a ghost, or an angel (The Matrix Reloaded; writing credit: Andy Wachowski; Larry Wachowski) Suppose somebody saw you coming (Sleuth; writing credit: Anthony Shaffer) Even with a chain saw! (The Addams Family; writing credit: Caroline Thompson) We came, we saw, we kicked its ass (Ghostbusters; writing credit: Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis.) | |
Lyrics | I saw you first (Key West Intermezzo (I Saw You First); performing artist: John Mellencamp; writing credit: John Mellencamp and George Green) When they saw you kneeling (Goody Two Shoes; performing artist: Adam Ant) I just saw a picture, from the lost and found (When I Say; performing artist: Air Supply) That I saw your smiling face (I'll Never Break Your Heart; performing artist: Backstreet Boys) I saw some kid on Newbury Route (One Voice; performing artist: Billy Gilman) | |
Clever | I didn't like the play, but then I saw it under adverse conditions - the curtain was up. (references; author: Groucho Marx) Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . . . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime. (references; author: Mark Twain) Saw It... Wanted It... Had A Fit... Got It! (references; author: unknown) I saw Elvis. He sat between me and Bigfoot on the UFO. (references; author: unknown) Veni, Vedi, Visa: I came. I saw. I did a little shopping. (references; author: unknown) | |
Tongue Twisters | I saw Esau kissing Kate. I saw Esau, he saw me, and she saw I saw Esau. (references; author: unknown) Sarah saw a shot-silk sash shop full of shot-silk sashes as the sunshine shone on the side of the shot-silk sash shop. (references; author: unknown) The sawingest saw I ever saw saw was the saw I saw saw in Arkansas. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus (2001) The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) I Saw What You Did (1965) What Mozart Saw on Mulberry Street (1956) The Last Time I Saw Paris (1954) | |
Song Titles | Key West Intermezzo (I Saw You First) (performing artist: John Mellencamp) I Saw Her Again (performing artist: The Mamas And The Papas) Ride My See Saw (performing artist: The Moody Blues) First Time Ever I Saw Your Face (performing artist: Roberta Flack) THE FIRST TIME EVER I SAW YOUR FACE (performing artist: Roberta Flack ) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Boy, does it get foggy around here. I think I saw a cruise ship out there somewhere!. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | Hammerhead shark passing bow of ALBATROSS IV while ship underway Apparently a hammerhead migration as ship saw hundreds of hammerheads swimming to northeast during the day. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
 | A salty dog if I ever saw one plays the harmonica on a warm Kodiak day. Credit: Fisheries. |  | A close up of two workers notching the dam. The saw sprays water around the work area. This image was used in the NOAA Restoration Center brochure. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
 | Rogue River - Cross cut saw. Credit: Unknown. |  | [Knives and saw for amputations]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | USS Pawnee (Hospital Ship) : Starboard view. Saw combat service in Civil War, commissioned as hospital ship in 1870. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Photographed in 1898. This Boston ferryboat was converted to a gunboat during the Spanish-American war. Damaged by a severe storm off the U.S. east coast in July 1898, she saw no service in the combat zone. Note 5"/40 gun on her low forecastle deck. Credit: NAVY. |
 | The boy saw Nelly and the cat. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Ecco, signor Pug! the execution : Pug looked down and saw the firing squad beneath him. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Chop Saw 1" by Dan Mulligan Commentary: "Close up of Dewalt compound miter saw." | "Rusted saw teeth 01" by Jason Krieger Commentary: "Here is a close up of a huge earth saw that was across the street." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Play | Caption | Play | Caption |
 | Manual hand saw cutting wood. | | Sawing with a hand saw. |
| Reverberation after a saw is plucked. | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Author | Quotation |
Benjamin Franklin | Avarice and happiness never saw each other, how then should they become acquainted? |
George Eliot | Our impartiality is kept for abstract merit and demerit, which none of us ever saw. |
Jay | I saw one excellency within my reach -- it was brevity, and I determined to obtain it. |
John Bunyan | I saw a man clothed with rags... a book in his hand, and a great burden upon his back. |
John Webster | I saw him now going the way of all flesh. |
Julius Caesar | I came, I saw, I conquered. |
Michel de Montaigne | Whoever saw old age that did not applaud the past and condemn the present? |
Moliere | I saw him, I say, saw him with my own eyes. |
Seneca | So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you. |
Sir Walter Raleigh | Methought I saw the grave where Laura lay. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | They saw, that to live by one man's will, became the cause of all men's misery. (Second Treatise of Government) |
Communist Manifesto | 1848 | But the people, so often as it joined them, saw on their hindquarters the old feudal coats of arms, and deserted with loud and irreverent laughter. (reference) |
Winston S. Churchill | 1946 | Last time I saw it all coming and cried aloud to my own fellow-countrymen and to the world, but no one paid any attention. ("Iron Curtain" Speech) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Emma | Austen, Jane | He saw no fault in the room, he would acknowledge none which they suggested |
Sylvie and Bruno Concluded | Carroll, Lewis | However, almost the first face I saw there was that of a friend |
A Christmas Carol | Dickens, Charles | It was with great astonishment, and with a strange, inexplicable dread, that as he looked, he saw this bell begin to swing |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | She saw her own face, glowing with girlish beauty, and illuminating all the interior of the dusky mirror in which she had been wont to gaze at it. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Monsieur Madeleine turned and saw Javert |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | He saw her approach him in a lull of the talk and beg him to sing one of his curious songs |
King Richard III | Shakespeare, William | I hope he is much grown since last I saw him. |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | They heard footsteps on wood, and, then from inside the house they saw the glow of a flashlight |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | I saw nothing in this country that could invite me to a longer continuance, and began to think of returning home to England |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | At one time, owing to the emptiness of my purse, I saw none of it for more than a month |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | I looked down and saw two bite marks and some blood. (references) | |
I heard a rustle like something going out of my tent and saw a raccoon. (references) | ||
We first began to study these problems in 1990, when we saw a child who had immune system symptoms that did not fit any previously known disorders. (references) | ||
Business | During the 1990s, China saw rapid development of the plastics industry. (references) | |
In 1998, the industry saw its sales grow by 3.4 percent and, in 1999, by 2.0 percent. (references) | ||
Monsanto began to sell pesticides in the local market in 1994 and saw 150% growth annually. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Bangladesh | However, they fled the area when local residents saw them. (references) |
Hong Kong | Some saw the official's remarks regarding Taiwan as a warning to the press not to advocate independence for Taiwan. (references) | |
Madagascar | The Government does not restrict academic freedom; however, faculty unions saw the temporary appointments of university rectors by the Government as attempts to interfere with higher education. (references) | |
Economic History | Nepal | The next 5 years saw five successive governments. (references) |
Italy | Other major parties, such as the Socialists, saw support plummet. (references) | |
Ireland | The year 1997, however, saw a return to a more traditional model. (references) | |
Human Rights | Gambia | Credible eyewitnesses saw more than seven youths injured. (references) |
Syria | The diplomat confirmed Dawud's presence and saw no signs of torture. (references) | |
China | Many gays and lesbians saw the move as a sign of increased government tolerance. (references) | |
Political Economy | Guyana | A reorganization of various ministries was conducted and this saw the addition of some new portfolios. (references) |
Bangladesh | The new government's first two years saw relatively few hartals or other disruptive agitation programs. (references) | |
AUSTRALIA | July 2000 saw the introduction of the Goods and Services Tax (GST), accompanied by significant cuts to personal income taxes. (references) | |
Political Rights | Togo | In Agou independent party delegates claimed that they saw individuals voting more than 10 times. (references) |
Nigeria | All three parties engaged in the local purchase of false ballots and fraudulent tally sheets so that there were vast discrepancies between what observers saw and inflated tallies in some areas. (references) | |
Sri Lanka | A group of 26 international observers invited by the Government to observe the elections stated that they saw no evidence of fraud in the 1999 presidential elections, but they admitted the possibility of irregularities and suggested ways for improving the voting system to prevent cheating. (references) | |
Trade | Uzbekistan | In 1998 the number of importers given convertibility quotas was cut by one third, and the remaining two-thirds saw their quotas slashed in half. (references) |
Saudi Arabia | Both the local stock market and share prices of the commercial banks saw a significant rise after the announcement of the new regulations, with the Saudi stock market registering a large 43.6 percent gain for 1999. In 2000, the stock market gained a mere 11.3 percent, less than expected given the historically close correlation between Saudi share and oil price movements. (references) | |
Women | Chile | A 1994 law created conjugal property as an option in a marriage, but some women saw this as a disadvantage, since the law on separate property (which still exists) gives women the right to one-half their husbands' assets but gives husbands no rights to assets of the wife. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | GUNPOWDER, n. An agency employed by civilized nations for the settlement of disputes which might become troublesome if left unadjusted. By most writers the invention of gunpowder is ascribed to the Chinese, but not upon very convincing evidence. Milton says it was invented by the devil to dispel angels with, and this opinion seems to derive some support from the scarcity of angels. Moreover, it has the hearty concurrence of the Hon. James Wilson, Secretary of Agriculture. Secretary Wilson became interested in gunpowder through an event that occurred on the Government experimental farm in the District of Columbia. One day, several years ago, a rogue imperfectly reverent of the Secretary's profound attainments and personal character presented him with a sack of gunpowder, representing it as the sed of the Flashawful flabbergastor, a Patagonian cereal of great commercial value, admirably adapted to this climate. The good Secretary was instructed to spill it along in a furrow and afterward inhume it with soil. This he at once proceeded to do, and had made a continuous line of it all the way across a ten-acre field, when he was made to look backward by a shout from the generous donor, who at once dropped a lighted match into the furrow at the starting-point. Contact with the earth had somewhat dampened the powder, but the startled functionary saw himself pursued by a tall moving pillar of fire and smoke and fierce evolution. He stood for a moment paralyzed and speechless, then he recollected an engagement and, dropping all, absented himself thence with such surprising celerity that to the eyes of spectators along the route selected he appeared like a long, dim streak prolonging itself with inconceivable rapidity through seven villages, and audibly refusing to be comforted. "Great Scott! what is that?" cried a surveyor's chainman, shading his eyes and gazing at the fading line of agriculturist which bisected his visible horizon. "That," said the surveyor, carelessly glancing at the phenomenon and again centering his attention upon his instrument, "is the Meridian of Washington." H |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Andrew Weil | This is a very powerful drug that has been used for rheumatoid arthritis. I have to tell you I saw one patient at our clinic in University of Arizona, a university professor, woman, who had very severe rheumatoid arthritis, went on enbrill. |
Ed McMahon | The collar had to be just right. The scarf, you know, everything perfect. So, to have him thrown in there soaking wet, everybody loved it. All the times he nailed me, I was rejoicing when I saw that. |
Howard Lutnick | Well, as I saw the building I could see the smoke engulfing the top of the building and it was clear that things were going to be, things were going to be terrible. |
James Lipton | What I didn't know that by sticking to craft we would blow open some doors that I never saw opened before. |
Joe Esposito | Unbelievable. I mean, this was all new to me, too, because I never saw the big crowds like this. It was just like you see it on television. People were screaming and yelling, passing out, fainting. |
John Walsh | I've seen the worst of society and I've seen the best. When I was at Ground Zero I saw the horrible homicides that were committed there and the sadness, but I saw the best of America. |
Julie Andrews | I am very proud of him because Britain should support America. I mean, they did so much for us in World War II. And I was there. I mean, I was a child and I saw it all. And I'll never forget how grateful we must be to the Americans. |
Paul Burrell | Prince Phillip did send letters to the Princess. I saw them. They were in the box of secrets. I don't know where they are now. |
Trisha Meili | You know, I don't know. I just don't know. And so, you read that the policeman who first saw me saying that he'd never seen anyone beaten so badly. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Warren G. Harding | 1921-1923 | Ours is an organic law which had but one ambiguity, and we saw that effaced in a baptism of sacrifice and blood, with union maintained, the Nation supreme, and its concord inspiring. |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | I wanted to give you my judgment, as I saw it, on some of the issues before our Nation, as I view them, before I leave. |
Richard Nixon | 1969-1974 | This past year saw far-reaching results from our new policies for peace. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | As I came into the Capitol tonight, I saw the farmers, my fellow farmers, standing out in the snow. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | The last decade saw domestic spending surge literally out of control. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | Our founders saw themselves in the light of posterity. |
George W. Bush | 2001-2005 | Yet after America was attacked, it was as if our entire country looked into a mirror and saw our better selves. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Saw" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 97.54% of the time. "Saw" is used about 26,706 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 97.54% | 26,048 | 312 |
| Noun (singular) | 2.19% | 584 | 10,844 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 0.22% | 59 | 44,010 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 0.03% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Total | 100.00% | 26,706 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| India | Saw Pipes Limited | Japan | Tenryu Saw Mfg. Co., Ltd. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "saw": alternating saw ♦ band saw ♦ barking saw ♦ bow saw ♦ breakdown saw ♦ Buck saw ♦ buzz saw ♦ carpenter's saw ♦ chain saw ♦ circular saw ♦ cold saw ♦ compass saw ♦ conical saw ♦ coping saw ♦ crosscut saw ♦ Crown saw ♦ docking saw ♦ Dovetail saw ♦ drunken saw ♦ edging saw ♦ Foxtail saw ♦ frame saw ♦ Fret saw ♦ gang saw ♦ gate saw ♦ Gauge saw ♦ Gig saw ♦ Gin saw ♦ goose saw ♦ Grub saw ♦ Hack saw ♦ hand saw ♦ he saw the doctor by himself ♦ head saw ♦ hot saw ♦ i saw him last ♦ i saw it ♦ jig saw ♦ keyhole saw ♦ log saw ♦ loss in saw kerf ♦ metal saw ♦ panel saw ♦ peg saw ♦ pendulum saw ♦ pit saw ♦ portable saw ♦ power saw ♦ pruning saw ♦ rack saw ♦ radial saw ♦ ribbon saw ♦ rip saw ♦ ripping saw ♦ rock saw ♦ sash saw ♦ saw arbor ♦ saw at ♦ saw away ♦ saw bench ♦ saw blade ♦ saw blade thickness ♦ saw cut ♦ saw doctor ♦ saw down ♦ saw draft ♦ saw dust ♦ saw edged ♦ saw file ♦ saw filer ♦ saw frame ♦ saw gate ♦ saw gin ♦ saw grass ♦ saw guide ♦ saw in two ♦ saw into pieces ♦ saw line ♦ saw log ♦ saw logs ♦ saw mandrel ♦ saw mandril ♦ saw mill ♦ saw off ♦ saw on the fiddle ♦ saw one's wild oats ♦ saw out ♦ SAW PALMETTO ♦ saw pit ♦ saw set ♦ saw shaft ♦ saw sharpener ♦ saw spindle ♦ saw the air ♦ saw through ♦ saw tooth ♦ saw up ♦ saw whetter ♦ saw wood ♦ scroll saw ♦ span saw. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "saw": saw-bed, saw-bench, saw-billed, Saw-billed widgeon, saw-blade, saw-bones, saw-buck, saw-cut, saw-cuts, saw-cutting, saw-dust, saw-edged, saw-fish, saw-fly, saw-grass, saw-handled, saw-horse, saw-i, saw-jaws, saw-like, saw-mill, saw-mills, saw-playing, saw-powder, saw-ree, saw-scaled, Saw-set, saw-stroke, saw-teeth, saw-tones, saw-tooth, saw-toothed, saw-type, Saw-whet, Saw-wort, saw-wrest. | |
Ending with "saw": chain-saw, jig-saw. | |
Containing "saw": do-you-think-he-saw-us. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
saw chain | 2,912 | homelite chain saw | 184 |
table saw | 1,069 | lady saw | 174 |
saw palmetto | 1,003 | chain saw part | 174 |
the texas chain saw massacre | 694 | chain saw carving | 173 |
saw | 671 | jig saw puzzle | 161 |
stihl chain saw | 573 | saw doctor | 143 |
scroll saw | 446 | delta table saw | 142 |
band saw | 428 | concrete saw | 140 |
scroll saw pattern | 389 | chop saw | 134 |
husqvarna chain saw | 361 | panel saw | 133 |
miter saw | 340 | compound miter saw | 127 |
radial arm saw | 307 | pole saw | 127 |
tile saw | 295 | electric chain saw | 122 |
mcculloch chain saw | 292 | saw mill | 119 |
saw blade | 272 | hole saw | 108 |
free scroll saw pattern | 269 | reciprocating saw | 99 |
poulan chain saw | 242 | jig saw | 98 |
circular saw | 232 | remington chain saw | 97 |
echo chain saw | 213 | butler saw | 96 |
wet saw | 198 | canada saw sharpening | 95 |
mitre saw | 95 | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "saw"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | saag. (various references) | |
Albanian | sharroj (saw up), sharrë (arm-saw), pashë, fjalë e urtë (adage, byword, proverb, saying). (various references) | |
Arabic | منشار (sawfish), مثل سائر (proverb), نشر بمنشار, نشر (apply, be published, bear, braying, bring out, broadcast, circulate, diffusion, dispose, disseminate, distribute, edition, expand, extend, fudge, gazette, give out, hang out, insert in a newspaper, irradiate, issue, overspread, peddle, pervade, popularize, print, proclaim, programming, promulgate, promulgation, propagation, publicize, publishing, put forth, put out, run, sawing, sawn, scatter, shake out, sow, spread, sprinkle, strew, thrust, trephine, unfold, unroll, unwrap), قول مأثور (adage, aphorism, byword, gnome, maxim, proverb, saying), قطع الأشجار (deforest, fall, log), المنشرة ماكينة (sawmill), رأي (consideration, deliverance, feeling, idea, judgement, judgment, mind, opinion, persuasion, say, sentiment, theory, think, verdict, view). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | сентенция (dictum, gnome, sentence), режа с трион, максима, поговорка (adage, dictum, proverb, saying). (various references) | |
Chamorro | chachak. (various references) | |
Chinese | 鋸開 , 锯 (Sawed, Sawing, Sawn). (various references) | |
Czech | pilka, pila (edging saw, sawmill), přísloví (byword, proverb), min.èas od see, řezat (bite, chop, cut, guillotine), aforismus (aphorism). (various references) | |
Danish | save, sav. (various references) | |
Dutch | zagen (scarification). (various references) | |
Esperanto | segilo, segi. (various references) | |
Faeroese | saga. (various references) | |
Farsi | مثال (Example, Instance, Instant, Parable), هراسبابی شبیه اره , لغت یاجمله ضرب المثل , امثال وحکم (Adage), اره . (various references) | |
Finnish | sahata. (various references) | |
French | scier, scie (sawfish). (various references) | |
Frisian | seagje, seage. (various references) | |
German | sägen (saw wood, sawes, sawn, saws, serrate, to saw), Säge (hacksaw), sah. (various references) | |
Greek | πριόνι, πριονίζω (jag). (various r |
