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Definition: SAWING |
SAWINGPersonal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Saw |
Date "SAWING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Clever | Write without pay until somebody offers to pay you. If nobody offers within three years, sawing wood is what you were intended for. (references; author: Mark Twain) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Sawing a Lady in Half (1922) | |
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![]() | Ice harvesting, sawing.Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Rhode Island--Newport--A.C. James home, "Suprise Valley", workmen sawing in carpenter shop.Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Sawing a log.Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Son of Spanish-American farmer sawing slabs of wood to size for use in roof construction, Amalia, New Mexico.Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Old man, French Canadian, who worked in a paper mill for eleven years, in front of his house sawing wood, Montville, Connecticut.Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Mr. Smallwood, shacker near Alvin, Wisconsin, sawing wood.Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Lon Allen and daughter sawing log on farm near Iron River. It is a common practice for both sexes to work together in operations on the farm.Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Farmer sawing wood for winter fuel. Near Littleton, New Hampshire.Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Sawing board in woodworking shop. Community service center, Centerville, Arkansas. Faulkner County (see general caption).Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Benares - men sawing wood on the banks of the Ganges.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Play | Caption | Play | Caption |
| Sawing wood. | Sawing with a hand saw. | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Cosette was intent upon the wood he was sawing. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Using a sawing motion, gently bring the floss through the tight spaces between the teeth. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "SAWING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 89.19% of the time. "SAWING" is used about 74 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 (-ing form) | 89.19% | 66 | 41,290 |
| Noun (singular) | 6.76% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 4.05% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 74 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "SAWING": billet sawing ♦ cold circular sawing machine ♦ hot circular sawing machine ♦ plate sawing ♦ rip sawing ♦ sawing around ♦ sawing machine. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "SAWING": sawing-halfway-through. | |
Ending with "SAWING": see-sawing. | |
Containing "SAWING": log-sawing-like. | |
| 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 |
sawing | 39 |
concrete sawing | 19 |
sawing machine | 18 |
sawing scroll | 16 |
half in lady sawing | 16 |
half in sawing | 14 |
girl half in sawing | 12 |
half illusion in sawing | 11 |
half her in sawing | 7 |
illusion sawing | 6 |
half in lady picture sawing | 5 |
half illusion in lady magic sawing | 5 |
sawing woman | 5 |
sawing wood | 5 |
half lady sawing | 4 |
lumber sawing | 4 |
black decker sawing | 4 |
metal sawing | 4 |
fresh meat sawing | 4 |
half illusion in lady sawing | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "SAWING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | sharrim (hell). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | 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, saw, sawn, scatter, shake out, sow, spread, sprinkle, strew, thrust, trephine, unfold, unroll, unwrap). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | рязане с трион, режене с трион. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | " (saw, Sawed, Sawn). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | varmrundsav (hot circular sawing machine, hot saw), tildannelsen skal fortrinsvis ske i kold tilstand og ved spaantagende bearbejdning saasom savninJ, boring og hoevling (by sawing, cutting is preferably carried out in the cold state and with a tool, drilling or planing), pakkesavning (billet sawing), længdeskæring (rip sawing, ripping), koldrundsav (cold circular sawing machine, cold saw), kløvning (cleavage, nick, rip sawing, ripping). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | schulpen (rip sawing, ripping), warmcirkelzaagmachine (hot circular sawing machine, hot saw), pakketzagen (billet sawing), overlangs doorzagen (rip sawing, ripping), koudcirkelzaagmachine (cold circular sawing machine, cold saw), het uitsnijden dient bij voorkeur koud te geschieden en wel door middel van verspanende bewerking, bijv. zagen, boren, schaven (by sawing, cutting is preferably carried out in the cold state and with a tool, drilling or planing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | syiden suuntainen sahaus (rip sawing, ripping), sahakone (sawing-machine), pakettisahaaminen (billet sawing), kylmäpyörösaha (cold circular sawing machine, cold saw), kuumapyörösaha (hot circular sawing machine, hot saw), kiertosahaus (sawing around), halkaiseminen (rip sawing, ripping). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | sciage. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | sägende, sägend (serrating). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | πρίση κατ'επιλογή (sawing around). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | סיר", סור. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | fûrészmunka, fûrészelés. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | segagione progressiva tavola per tavola (sawing around), segagione per il lungo (rip sawing, ripping), il distacco è fatto di preferenza a freddo e con utensile, per segatura, foratura,piallatura (by sawing, cutting is preferably carried out in the cold state and with a tool, drilling or planing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 製材 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | せいざい. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 톱질하음. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | saauee, saaual, saauagh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | awingsay serração ao correr do veio da madeira (rip sawing, ripping), serração ao comprido (rip sawing, ripping), serra circular a quente (hot circular sawing machine, hot saw), serra circular a frio (cold circular sawing machine, cold saw), rodear (begird, cant, circle, circumvent, detour, embed, emboss, encircle, enclose, encompass, environment, girl, go around, inclose, lock out, mob, outflow, outgeneral, rim, ring, ring up, sawing around, shut in, surround, wreathe), recortar (chop, clip, cut out, hand back, indent, jag, profile, sawing around), o corte faz-se de preferência a frio e com ferramenta,por corte com serra,furação ou aplainamento (by sawing, cutting is preferably carried out in the cold state and with a tool, drilling or planing). (various references) распиловка, пилка (nail file). (various references) testerisanje. (various references) aserradura. (various references) sågning (cutting). (various references) bıçkı (gang saw, saw). (various references) пиляння. (various references) b n cưa (saw-buck, saw-horse, sawing jack). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "SAWING": chainsawing, jigsawing, resawing, seesawing, whipsawing. (additional references) | |
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"SAWING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: saing, saning, Sawang, Sawant, sawin, sawings, Saywun, sewin, sewings, spawing, ssewing, Swaine. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "SAWING" (pronounced sô"ing) |
| 3 | -ô" i ng | clawing, drawing, gnawing, hawing, lawing, redrawing, thawing, withdrawing. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: wigans. | |
| Words within the letters "a-g-i-n-s-w" | |
-1 letter: awing, gains, gnaws, swain, swang, swing, wains, wigan, wings. | |
-2 letters: agin, ains, anis, awns, gain, gins, gnaw, nags, sain, sang, sawn, sign, sing, snag, snaw, swag, swan, swig, wags, wain, wans, wigs, wing, wins. | |
-3 letters: ain, ais, ani, awn, gan, gas, gin, ins, nag, naw, sag, saw, sin, wag, wan, was, wig, win, wis. | |
-4 letters: ag, ai, an, as, aw, in, is, na, si. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-g-i-n-s-w" | |
+1 letter: awnings, jigsawn, lawings, shawing, snawing, swaging, swaying, tawsing, washing, wasting, waxings. | |
+2 letters: drawings, gaywings, gnawings, hawkings, lapwings, pshawing, resawing, ringtaws, shawling, spawning, strawing, swabbing, swagging, swamping, swanking, swanning, swapping, swarding, swarming, swashing, swathing, swatting, swearing, sweating, swingman, waddings, waisting, waitings, walkings, wanigans, warnings, warsling, washings, waxwings, whalings, windages, windbags, wingspan, yawpings. | |
+3 letters: answering, asswaging, backswing, gawkiness, jigsawing, lacewings, parawings, rewashing, sallowing, scrawling, seesawing, shadowing, sprawling, squawking, subwaying, swaddling, twangiest, wafflings, waistings, wakenings, wannigans, warstling, waterings, waygoings, weaklings, weanlings, weaseling, whizbangs, windgalls, wineglass, wingbacks, wingspans, wrappings, wrassling, wrastling. | |
+4 letters: backswings, beswarming, clearwings, disavowing, drawstring, enswathing, inswathing, jawbonings, lawmakings, lawyerings, misdrawing, nighthawks, outwasting, prewashing, shallowing, showcasing, snowmaking, stewarding, swaggering, swallowing, unswathing, unswearing, wadsetting, wampishing, wanderings, wassailing, weaselling, whipsawing, whizzbangs, wingspread, womanising. | |
+5 letters: backwashing, beshadowing, causewaying, chainsawing, coxswaining, crawfishing, disallowing, downscaling, drawstrings, forswearing, gawkinesses, gawkishness, landownings, lowercasing, misawarding, outswearing, postweaning, rainwashing, sandwiching, showboating, snowballing, springwater, waggishness, wainscoting, wainwrights, waitressing, warehousing, waterskiing, weatherings, wharfingers, wholesaling, windlassing, wineglasses, winemakings, wingspreads. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 41 57 49 4E 47 |
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... .- .--. .. -. --. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01000001 01010111 01001001 01001110 01000111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S A W I N G |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0041 0057 0049 004E 0047 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)533557434841 |
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