saw

saw is a 3-letter English word with 16 senses as transitive verb, noun, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: imp. of See. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 6 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

3 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 6 · 16 senses

Definitions

1. imp. of See.
2. transitive verb. Something said; speech; discourse.
3. transitive verb. A saying; a proverb; a maxim.
4. transitive verb. Dictate; command; decree.
5. noun. An instrument for cutting or dividing substances, as wood, iron, etc., consisting of a thin blade, or plate, of steel, with a series of sharp teeth on the edge, which remove successive portions of the material by cutting and tearing.
6. transitive verb. To cut with a saw; to separate with a saw; as, to saw timber or marble.
7. transitive verb. To form by cutting with a saw; as, to saw boards or planks, that is, to saw logs or timber into boards or planks; to saw shingles; to saw out a panel.
8. transitive verb. Also used figuratively; as, to saw the air.
9. intransitive verb. To use a saw; to practice sawing; as, a man saws well.
10. intransitive verb. To cut, as a saw; as, the saw or mill saws fast.
11. intransitive verb. To be cut with a saw; as, the timber saws smoothly.
12. past tense. of See
13. noun. a power tool for cutting wood
14. noun. hand tool having a toothed blade for cutting
15. noun. a condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people

    Synonyms: adage, byword, proverb

16. verb. cut with a saw

    "saw wood for the fireplace"

Synonyms

adage, byword, proverb

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in saw:

swa, was

Common word forms

saws, sawed, sawer, sawing

Words from these letters

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