saw1
noun sɔːsɔ
1A hand tool for cutting wood or other hard materials, typically with a long, thin serrated blade and operated using a backwards and forwards movement.
锯- A contractor saw or a hybrid saw of good quality suits the needs of most woodworkers.
- Mark the cut line on the board and position the saw with its blade on the line.
- Some grout saws have teeth, others have abrasive coatings on the blade.
- There were saws and a small ax in Thad's tool chest that luckily was in a closet and not left in the truck.
- There are various types of saws: keyhole, coping, hack, and hand.
- Jacob awoke on a cold morning to an unending beeping and a sound only comparable to a saw cutting wood.
- A pruning saw with a curved blade that's narrow at the tip will help you get into tight spaces.
- Mark the opening for the niche, and cut it out with a sharp utility knife or a wallboard saw.
- Small hand bowsaws or pruning saws may be suitable for small operations.
- The study, involving more than 14,000 Utah students, noted that nearly 89 percent of these accidents involved the use of equipment such as table saws, band saws and other saws.
- Perforated hardboard hung on the wall behind or near a workbench gives you a great way to store saws, chisels and the like, because it's so easy to rearrange the various hooks and holders.
- Many were idle now, but some still turned, and it didn't need a good ears to hear the sounds of hammers, saws, chisels, and other tools coming from the large brick buildings clustered about them.
- Pruning saws have narrower blades with coarse teeth that are designed to cut on the pull stroke.
- We all probably already know that sharp tools like saws and knives are needed to carve pumpkins and that taking precautions when using the tools is a necessity.
- It helps to wrap an elastic cord around the whole bunch and use a saw to cut the old stems below the cord.
- To cut quickly and safely, saws must be sharpened often.
- Most tile stores sell grout saws, an inexpensive tool with a wooden or plastic handle and a tip covered with carbide grit.
- Also on display were his tools - a hammer, saws and knives - whose whittled handles bear elaborate designs and whose blades are made from scrap metal.
- Going in with a pruning saw to undo a decade or more of overgrowth in one shot can be disastrous to an old tree.
- He found a number of small cutting tools and what he believed was a bone saw.
- 1.1 A mechanical power-driven tool for cutting which has a toothed rotating disc or moving band.锯床
- Instead, the company has focused on repeatedly modernizing its production facilities with tools such as computer-controlled, laser-guided saws.
- It's a super-modern sawmill with huge mechanical saws controlled by computers.
- Use of power drills or saws should be avoided if they are likely to come into contact with high-infectivity tissue.
- In addition, the noise from electric saws frightens away the fauna for miles around, emptying the forest of life.
- Brick saws also utilize a water-cooled, diamond-tipped circular blade, but the blade and the motor are mounted overhead in a pivoting frame.
- In addition, he claims that he was required to operate machinery with moving parts including band saw blades and cut saws, work which can be very difficult and which is potentially dangerous.
- Speed boats raced through the waves making a pattern of sound similar to a chain saw cutting through tough wood.
- You can't expect good results using the standard blades that come with most saws.
- One of the more popular saws for harvesting is a power driven circular saw mounted on the end of a wand or boom.
- These saws have a full cabinet that contains the motor and are the largest, heaviest and most expensive of the table saw models.
- Most power saws made today have ports that can attach to vacuum tubing.
- Some types of saws utilize a blade that is coupled directly to the motor, which cuts down on weight and cost but typically reduces the amount of torque generated.
- The saw was also equipped with a mechanism for tightening and tracking the blade.
- Remember that cutting this product - especially with power saws - produces a fine dust with microscopic fibers in it, so it's imperative that you wear both a respirator and goggles.
- Since you cannot score and crack it like ceramic tiles, your best bet is to rent a wet saw.
- If you don't own a miter saw, rent one.
- The parallel blades of a gang saw may take a week to slice through one granite block.
- Hold the base plate, or shoe, of the saw against the board to be sure the blade is lined up with the line.
- With a combination blade in your saw, set the depth of cut just to cut through the sheathing.
- 1.2Zoology A serrated organ or part, such as the toothed snout of a sawfish.〔动〕锯齿状部位（或器官）
verbsawed, sawn sɔːsɔ
1with object Cut (something) using a saw.
锯成the top of each post is sawn off at railing height每根立柱的顶部都在齐栏杆的高度被锯掉。
no object thieves escaped after sawing through iron bars on a window窃贼在没有被察觉的情况下锯开地下室窗户上的铁条逃跑了。
- A plank fifty feet long and eight inches thick could be sawn on both edges in less than five minutes!
- Occasionally, we would work together and finish a tree by sawing it with a large saw.
- A new floor of locally sawn white oak planks has been laid.
- Arriving in Quebec City the logs were sawn into lumber and shipped around the world.
- Radially sawn timbers give better yields and more stable sections than conventionally milled timbers.
- Tull, their neighboring farmer, is manning the wagon, while Cash is sawing wood.
- There was a lumberjack who was sawing a tree, and the tree fell on his leg.
- Can you imagine hammering or sawing without the proper support?
- Sanded and rough sawn plywood will develop surface checks, especially when exposed to moisture and sunlight.
- Personally I yearn for table-cut diamonds, serious stones sawn in half so they have no facets; they don't sparkle or shine, just glow with a restrained, secret cool ardour.
- Some were sawing, some were nailing and others came and went, delivering wood, nails and other tools.
- They would either have to spend money to thin a forest in order to allow the remaining trees to grow to the size needed to make quality sawn timber or leave all the trees with less space to grow into and accept a lower quality of timber.
- If a supervisor spends eight hours of his nine-hour workday alongside a crew of carpenters, sawing wood and pounding nails with them, is he blue collar?
- Only sawn timber, roofing iron and floorboards were shipped from Adelaide.
- Harry had built the house from scratch - felling the timber, sawing it into planks and hammering in the nails.
- Minimalists will love the temple stone garden in which sawn tree trunks weave a path through unadorned gravel.
- We had our old sofa in the garden, it was wrecked and my Dad was sawing it into pieces to get it out of the garden gate.
- They did everything: splitting logs and sawing wood, laying bricks and tiles, carving wood decorations and balconies, and making furniture and carriages.
- Lumber is sawn to produce all surface orientations, from flat-sawn to edge grain.
- Dust mask and goggles are necessary for work with all types of insulation, or when sawing wood.
- 1.1 Make or form (something) using a saw.锯成the seats are sawn from well-seasoned elm planks
座位是由经过干燥处理的榆木板锯成的。
- Because American oak is so much less porous than European, staves of American oak can simply be sawn from each quarter, so as to maximize the yield of each log.
- 1.2 Cut (something) as if with a saw, especially roughly or so as to leave rough or unfinished edges.乱剪；乱切the woman who sawed off all my lovely hair
把我漂亮的头发胡乱剪掉的那女人。
- 1.3no object Make rapid sawlike motions in cutting, or in playing a stringed instrument.拉锯似的来回移动he was sawing away energetically at the loaf
他正在用力拉锯似的切面包。
- A servant eased out of a small door with a four-string violin and began to saw quietly at it.
- Her father, Michael, a suave-looking businessman in his mid-forties with iron-on respectability, is sawing into a huge steak with a large knife in silence.
- She, however, was soon stumbling after them, the straps of her pack sawing at her shoulders, the weight of the pack throwing her off her stride as it bumped and shifted on her back.
- I took up my knife and began sawing at the piece of beef.
- Cautiously, Cassari folded her hands in her lap and shifted her eyes to the fiddler who merrily sawed away at the strings of the fiddle with his bow.
- At times both of us were hunched over our plates, sawing away at the meat in front of us.
- The invisible violins were currently sawing away at the frantic tune of ‘The Phantom of the Opera’.
- From time to time, this man or that one will rise from his place and call to the birds in the pit, shout at the handlers, hands hooked, sawing at the air.
- She saws away at her pancake, looking a little ashamed.
- The problem is that blokes in white jackets sawing away at violins just isn't televisual.
- The track builds into a ringing guitar drone backed by the screeching sounds of Arne Ericsson sawing away at his electric-cello.
- As expected the orchestra sawed on in the Usher Hall but Dame Gillian played in St Giles cathedral, about a mile away, with the sound relayed back to the Hall through speakers.
- Nearly a century later this Tennesseean is still out there somewhere sawing on the strings, and most likely leading a vibrant and inspired life.
- Then came the haunting solo violin refrain and all the children stopped sawing away - except one.
- The drums often play not so much a beat or a pulse, but lumbering repetitions - just as Eastburn's violin at the start of ‘Repent’ is the weariest sawing I've ever heard.
2saw offCanadian no object (of two or more people) compromise by making concessions to one another.
〈加〉（两人或多人）通过互让解决，相互妥协they sawed off over wages and concluded the deal他们在工资和安全保障方面各让一步，达成了交易。
Derivatives
sawlike
- Cuts must be delivered with a light touch, drawing the cutting edge of the blade back quickly in a sawlike motion.
- A few years ago, a dentist I was seeing told me that I was brushing improperly in a sawlike motion and had caused slight damage to the gum surrounding one tooth.
- Using your thumbs and index fingers as guides, gently slide the floss between two teeth, using a sawlike motion.
- These sawlike ridges are made up of equilateral triangles, but often they contain bent and irregular teeth.
- They're called ‘sawflies ‘because the adult female uses sawlike egg-laying organs to cut slits in year-old needles.’
adjective
Origin
Old English saga, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch zaag.
saga from early 18th century:
The original medieval sagas told traditional stories of the families of Iceland and the kings of Norway. No one in Britain paid much attention to them until the 18th century, at the same time as the word saga entered the language. Its old Icelandic original is the equivalent of English saw in old saw, an old proverb or maxim, and meant ‘a narrative, a story’. From the mid 19th century saga came also to apply to stories of heroic achievement and then to novels tracing families through several generations. The 1990s gave us the Aga saga, a novel by a writer such as Joanna Trollope set in a rural location and concerning the emotional lives of characters who set great store by their Aga, a stove invented in Sweden. Aga (mid 20th century) gets its name from the initial letters of Svenska Aktienbolaget Gasackumulator, Swedish Gas Accumulator Company, the original manufacturers.
Rhymes
abhor, adore, afore, anymore, ashore, awe, bandore, Bangalore, before, boar, Boer, bore, caw, chore, claw, cocksure, comprador, cor, core, corps, craw, Delors, deplore, door, draw, drawer, evermore, explore, flaw, floor, for, forbore, fore, foresaw, forevermore, forswore, four, fourscore, furthermore, Gábor, galore, gnaw, gore, grantor, guarantor, guffaw, hard-core, Haugh, haw, hoar, ignore, implore, Indore, interwar, jaw, Johor, Lahore, law, lessor, lor, lore, macaw, man-o'-war, maw, mirador, mor, more, mortgagor, Mysore, nevermore, nor, oar, obligor, offshore, onshore, open-jaw, or, ore, outdoor, outwore, paw, poor, pore, pour, rapport, raw, roar, scaur, score, senhor, señor, shaw, ship-to-shore, shop-floor, shore, signor, Singapore, snore, soar, softcore, sore, spore, store, straw, swore, Tagore, tau, taw, thaw, Thor, threescore, tor, tore, torr, trapdoor, tug-of-war, two-by-four, underfloor, underscore, war, warrantor, Waugh, whore, withdraw, wore, yaw, yore, your
saw2
sɔːsɔ
- past of see
saw3
noun sɔːsɔ
A proverb or maxim.
谚语，格言it is worth bearing in mind another old saw: ‘oppositions do not win elections; governments lose them’- More broadly, though, history teaches that the old saw is correct - shares do offer the best returns in the long run.
- Their power is absolute, and, as the old saw has it, absolute power corrupts absolutely.
- But you may recall I packed a late lunch and, as the old saw goes, time waits for no one.
- The old saw that champagne goes right to your head has been proven to be true.
- According to the old saw, a language is a dialect with an army and a navy.
- Don't believe the old saw that you can't be out and still be a mover and shaker in Hollywood.
- Whether or not they like current expressions of democracy, I think it would be fair to say that most people agree with this old saw.
saying, maxim, proverb, aphorism, axiom, adage, motto, epigram, dictum, gnomeexpression, phraseplatitude, cliché, truismrare apophthegm
Origin
Old English sagu 'a saying, speech', of Germanic origin; related to German Sage, also to say and saga.
saw1
nounsɔsô
1A hand tool for cutting wood or other materials, typically with a long, thin serrated steel blade and operated using a backward and forward movement.
锯- It helps to wrap an elastic cord around the whole bunch and use a saw to cut the old stems below the cord.
- He found a number of small cutting tools and what he believed was a bone saw.
- The study, involving more than 14,000 Utah students, noted that nearly 89 percent of these accidents involved the use of equipment such as table saws, band saws and other saws.
- A pruning saw with a curved blade that's narrow at the tip will help you get into tight spaces.
- To cut quickly and safely, saws must be sharpened often.
- We all probably already know that sharp tools like saws and knives are needed to carve pumpkins and that taking precautions when using the tools is a necessity.
- Most tile stores sell grout saws, an inexpensive tool with a wooden or plastic handle and a tip covered with carbide grit.
- Also on display were his tools - a hammer, saws and knives - whose whittled handles bear elaborate designs and whose blades are made from scrap metal.
- Some grout saws have teeth, others have abrasive coatings on the blade.
- Jacob awoke on a cold morning to an unending beeping and a sound only comparable to a saw cutting wood.
- Small hand bowsaws or pruning saws may be suitable for small operations.
- There were saws and a small ax in Thad's tool chest that luckily was in a closet and not left in the truck.
- A contractor saw or a hybrid saw of good quality suits the needs of most woodworkers.
- Perforated hardboard hung on the wall behind or near a workbench gives you a great way to store saws, chisels and the like, because it's so easy to rearrange the various hooks and holders.
- Pruning saws have narrower blades with coarse teeth that are designed to cut on the pull stroke.
- Mark the cut line on the board and position the saw with its blade on the line.
- There are various types of saws: keyhole, coping, hack, and hand.
- Going in with a pruning saw to undo a decade or more of overgrowth in one shot can be disastrous to an old tree.
- Mark the opening for the niche, and cut it out with a sharp utility knife or a wallboard saw.
- Many were idle now, but some still turned, and it didn't need a good ears to hear the sounds of hammers, saws, chisels, and other tools coming from the large brick buildings clustered about them.
- 1.1 A mechanical power-driven tool for cutting, typically with a toothed rotating disk or moving band.锯床
- Use of power drills or saws should be avoided if they are likely to come into contact with high-infectivity tissue.
- These saws have a full cabinet that contains the motor and are the largest, heaviest and most expensive of the table saw models.
- The saw was also equipped with a mechanism for tightening and tracking the blade.
- In addition, the noise from electric saws frightens away the fauna for miles around, emptying the forest of life.
- You can't expect good results using the standard blades that come with most saws.
- If you don't own a miter saw, rent one.
- The parallel blades of a gang saw may take a week to slice through one granite block.
- Brick saws also utilize a water-cooled, diamond-tipped circular blade, but the blade and the motor are mounted overhead in a pivoting frame.
- It's a super-modern sawmill with huge mechanical saws controlled by computers.
- With a combination blade in your saw, set the depth of cut just to cut through the sheathing.
- Most power saws made today have ports that can attach to vacuum tubing.
- Instead, the company has focused on repeatedly modernizing its production facilities with tools such as computer-controlled, laser-guided saws.
- Remember that cutting this product - especially with power saws - produces a fine dust with microscopic fibers in it, so it's imperative that you wear both a respirator and goggles.
- In addition, he claims that he was required to operate machinery with moving parts including band saw blades and cut saws, work which can be very difficult and which is potentially dangerous.
- Speed boats raced through the waves making a pattern of sound similar to a chain saw cutting through tough wood.
- One of the more popular saws for harvesting is a power driven circular saw mounted on the end of a wand or boom.
- Hold the base plate, or shoe, of the saw against the board to be sure the blade is lined up with the line.
- Since you cannot score and crack it like ceramic tiles, your best bet is to rent a wet saw.
- Some types of saws utilize a blade that is coupled directly to the motor, which cuts down on weight and cost but typically reduces the amount of torque generated.
verbsɔsô
[with object]1Cut (something, especially wood or a tree) using a saw.
锯the top of each post is sawed off at railing height每根立柱的顶部都在齐栏杆的高度被锯掉。
no object thieves escaped after sawing through iron bars on a basement window窃贼在没有被察觉的情况下锯开地下室窗户上的铁条逃跑了。
as adjective, in combination rough-sawn planks- We had our old sofa in the garden, it was wrecked and my Dad was sawing it into pieces to get it out of the garden gate.
- Lumber is sawn to produce all surface orientations, from flat-sawn to edge grain.
- Radially sawn timbers give better yields and more stable sections than conventionally milled timbers.
- They would either have to spend money to thin a forest in order to allow the remaining trees to grow to the size needed to make quality sawn timber or leave all the trees with less space to grow into and accept a lower quality of timber.
- Can you imagine hammering or sawing without the proper support?
- Only sawn timber, roofing iron and floorboards were shipped from Adelaide.
- Minimalists will love the temple stone garden in which sawn tree trunks weave a path through unadorned gravel.
- There was a lumberjack who was sawing a tree, and the tree fell on his leg.
- Occasionally, we would work together and finish a tree by sawing it with a large saw.
- Harry had built the house from scratch - felling the timber, sawing it into planks and hammering in the nails.
- A plank fifty feet long and eight inches thick could be sawn on both edges in less than five minutes!
- Arriving in Quebec City the logs were sawn into lumber and shipped around the world.
- If a supervisor spends eight hours of his nine-hour workday alongside a crew of carpenters, sawing wood and pounding nails with them, is he blue collar?
- Personally I yearn for table-cut diamonds, serious stones sawn in half so they have no facets; they don't sparkle or shine, just glow with a restrained, secret cool ardour.
- Some were sawing, some were nailing and others came and went, delivering wood, nails and other tools.
- Tull, their neighboring farmer, is manning the wagon, while Cash is sawing wood.
- Dust mask and goggles are necessary for work with all types of insulation, or when sawing wood.
- They did everything: splitting logs and sawing wood, laying bricks and tiles, carving wood decorations and balconies, and making furniture and carriages.
- A new floor of locally sawn white oak planks has been laid.
- Sanded and rough sawn plywood will develop surface checks, especially when exposed to moisture and sunlight.
- 1.1 Make or form (something) using a saw.锯成the seats are sawed from well-seasoned oak planks
座位是由经过干燥处理的榆木板锯成的。
- Because American oak is so much less porous than European, staves of American oak can simply be sawn from each quarter, so as to maximize the yield of each log.
- 1.2 Cut (something) as if with a saw, especially roughly or so as to leave rough or unfinished edges.乱剪；乱切the woman who sawed off all my lovely hair
把我漂亮的头发胡乱剪掉的那女人。
- 1.3no object Make rapid sawlike motions in cutting something or in playing a stringed instrument.拉锯似的来回移动he was sawing away at the loaf of bread
- As expected the orchestra sawed on in the Usher Hall but Dame Gillian played in St Giles cathedral, about a mile away, with the sound relayed back to the Hall through speakers.
- The problem is that blokes in white jackets sawing away at violins just isn't televisual.
- The track builds into a ringing guitar drone backed by the screeching sounds of Arne Ericsson sawing away at his electric-cello.
- Her father, Michael, a suave-looking businessman in his mid-forties with iron-on respectability, is sawing into a huge steak with a large knife in silence.
- From time to time, this man or that one will rise from his place and call to the birds in the pit, shout at the handlers, hands hooked, sawing at the air.
- Cautiously, Cassari folded her hands in her lap and shifted her eyes to the fiddler who merrily sawed away at the strings of the fiddle with his bow.
- Then came the haunting solo violin refrain and all the children stopped sawing away - except one.
- At times both of us were hunched over our plates, sawing away at the meat in front of us.
- I took up my knife and began sawing at the piece of beef.
- She saws away at her pancake, looking a little ashamed.
- A servant eased out of a small door with a four-string violin and began to saw quietly at it.
- She, however, was soon stumbling after them, the straps of her pack sawing at her shoulders, the weight of the pack throwing her off her stride as it bumped and shifted on her back.
- The drums often play not so much a beat or a pulse, but lumbering repetitions - just as Eastburn's violin at the start of ‘Repent’ is the weariest sawing I've ever heard.
- Nearly a century later this Tennesseean is still out there somewhere sawing on the strings, and most likely leading a vibrant and inspired life.
- The invisible violins were currently sawing away at the frantic tune of ‘The Phantom of the Opera’.
Origin
Old English saga, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch zaag.
saw2
sɔsô
- past of see
saw3
nounsɔsô
A proverb or maxim.
谚语，格言it is worth bearing in mind another old saw: “oppositions do not win elections; governments lose them”- Don't believe the old saw that you can't be out and still be a mover and shaker in Hollywood.
- According to the old saw, a language is a dialect with an army and a navy.
- Their power is absolute, and, as the old saw has it, absolute power corrupts absolutely.
- More broadly, though, history teaches that the old saw is correct - shares do offer the best returns in the long run.
- Whether or not they like current expressions of democracy, I think it would be fair to say that most people agree with this old saw.
- The old saw that champagne goes right to your head has been proven to be true.
- But you may recall I packed a late lunch and, as the old saw goes, time waits for no one.
saying, maxim, proverb, aphorism, axiom, adage, motto, epigram, dictum, gnome
Origin
Old English sagu ‘a saying, speech’, of Germanic origin; related to German Sage, also to say and saga.