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SAWING

Definition: SAWING

SAWING

Personal pronoun & verb & noun

1. Of Saw

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "SAWING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references)

 

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Crosswords: SAWING

English words defined with "SAWING": Buck sawCleft grafting, cutGrub sawJig sawKerfSaw bench, saw log, sawdust, sawing machine, sawmill. (references)
Specialty definitions using "SAWING": BEADING SAWYER, BED SETTER, billet sawing, blockmaking, BOX MAKER, WOOD, breakdown saw, breaking-down saw, butt sawyercarpenter, box, case maker, cold circular sawing machine, cold saw, combination-saw operator, CONTOUR-BAND-SAW OPERATOR, VERTICAL, crystal evaluator, CRYSTAL MACHINING COORDINATOR, CUT-OFF SAWYER, LOGdeck sawyerEDGER, AUTOMATIC, EDGER-MACHINE OPERATORhalf headers, hay-knife, HEAD INSPECTOR, head saw, headrig, HEAT TREATER, hot circular sawing machine, hot sawINSPECTOR, CRYSTALJEWEL BLOCKER AND SAWYER, jewel sawyerkerf widthLATHE OPERATOR, LEAD WORKER, WAFER PRODUCTION, log saw, Lumbermachine operator technician, MARBLE SETTERnatural facepick-up, pietra della raja, plate sawing, pondsaw operator, PONY EDGER, powersaw supervisor, PROSTHETICS TECHNICIANquality-control-inspector, headingrate builder, re-saw, restoration techniciansaw boss, SAW OPERATOR, SAW OPERATOR, SEMICONDUCTOR WAFERS, sawing around, SHADOW LINES, short-log bolter, side set, SLAB-CONDITIONER SUPERVISOR, SPANISH WORM, stone banker, STRIP POLISHER, STRUCTURAL-MILL SUPERVISOR, SUPERVISOR, BIT AND SHANK DEPARTMENT, SUPERVISOR, EPOXY FABRICATION, SUPERVISOR, FELLING-BUCKING, SUPERVISOR, SAWING AND ASSEMBLY, SUPERVISOR, SHUTTLE PREPARATION, SUPERVISOR, WOOD ROOMtimber supervisor, timber trimmer, TIMBER-FRAMER HELPERuniversal-saw operatorVARIETY-SAW OPERATORwood-mill supervisor, wood-preparation supervisor. (references)
Etymologies containing "SAWING": Serrature. (references)

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Modern Usage: SAWING

DomainUsage

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)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: SAWING

DomainTitle

References

  • The World Market for Metal Sawing or Cutting-Off Machines: A 2004 Global Trade Perspective (reference)

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Books

  

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: SAWING

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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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Sounds Captioned with "SAWING".

PlayCaptionPlayCaption
Sawing wood.Sawing with a hand saw.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Use in Literature: SAWING

TitleAuthorQuote

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

Cosette was intent upon the wood he was sawing.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: SAWING

SubjectTopicQuote

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.

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Usage Frequency: SAWING

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (-ing form)89.19%6641,290
Noun (singular)6.76%5157,705
Adjective (general or positive)4.05%3202,518
                    Total100.00%74N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: SAWING

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.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: SAWING

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
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.

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Modern Translations: SAWING

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

   

Portuguese

  

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)

   

Russian 

  

распиловка, пилка (nail file). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

testerisanje. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

aserradura. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

sågning (cutting). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

bıçkı (gang saw, saw). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

пиляння. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

b n cưa (saw-buck, saw-horse, sawing jack). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: SAWING

Derivations

Words ending with "SAWING": chainsawing, jigsawing, resawing, seesawing, whipsawing. (additional references)


Misspellings

"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).

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Rhyming with "SAWING"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "SAWING" (pronounced sô"ing)
3-ô" i ngclawing, drawing, gnawing, hawing, lawing, redrawing, thawing, withdrawing.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: SAWING

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: SAWING


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 41 57 49 4E 47

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

...    .-    .--.    ..    -.    --.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01000001 01010111 01001001 01001110 01000111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#65 &#87 &#73 &#78 &#71

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)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

533557434841

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Slideshow
6. Images: Photo Album
7. Sounds
8. Quotations: Fiction
9. Quotations: Non-fiction
10. Usage Frequency
11. Expressions
12. Expressions: Internet
13. Translations: Modern
14. Derivations
15. Rhymes
16. Anagrams
17. Orthography
18. Bibliography


  

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