Dictionary Entry
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.
- 2transitive verb
Something said; speech; discourse.
- 3transitive verb
A saying; a proverb; a maxim.
- 4transitive verb
Dictate; command; decree.
- 5noun
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.
- 6transitive verb
To cut with a saw; to separate with a saw; as, to saw timber or marble.
- 7transitive 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.
- 8transitive verb
Also used figuratively; as, to saw the air.
- 9intransitive verb
To use a saw; to practice sawing; as, a man saws well.
- 10intransitive verb
To cut, as a saw; as, the saw or mill saws fast.
- 11intransitive verb
To be cut with a saw; as, the timber saws smoothly.
- 12past tense
of See
- 13noun
a power tool for cutting wood
- 14noun
hand tool having a toothed blade for cutting
- 15noun
a condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people
- 16verb
cut with a saw
"saw wood for the fireplace"
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