What's the difference between saw and sawer?

Saw


Definition:

  • () imp. of See.
  • (v. t.) Something said; speech; discourse.
  • (v. t.) A saying; a proverb; a maxim.
  • (v. t.) Dictate; command; decree.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (v. t.) To cut with a saw; to separate with a saw; as, to saw timber or marble.
  • (v. t.) 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.
  • (v. t.) Also used figuratively; as, to saw the air.
  • (v. i.) To use a saw; to practice sawing; as, a man saws well.
  • (v. i.) To cut, as a saw; as, the saw or mill saws fast.
  • (v. i.) To be cut with a saw; as, the timber saws smoothly.
  • (imp.) of See

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The bank tellers who saw their positions filled by male superiors took special pleasure in going to the bank and keeping them busy.
  • (2) Helsby, who joined the estate agent in 1980, saw his basic salary unchanged at £225,000, but gains a £610,000 windfall in shares, available from May, as well as a £363,000 increase in cash and shares under the company profits-sharing scheme.
  • (3) We are the generation who saw the war,, who ate bread received with ration cards.
  • (4) As calls grew to establish why nobody stepped in to save Daniel, it was also revealed that the boy's headteacher – who saw him scavenging for scraps – has not been disciplined and has been put in charge of a bigger school.
  • (5) The 20-year-old now holds two world records after he broke the 50m best at the European Championships in Berlin during a 2014 season which saw him burst on to the international stage.
  • (6) "I saw my role, and continue to do so, as doing everything I can to accelerate the Lib Dems' journey from a party of protest to a party of government," he said.
  • (7) I first saw them live at the location of the terror attack, Manchester Arena – then the MEN – aged 15, a teen at a gig with my friends, as many of the Grande’s fans were.
  • (8) As I looked further, I saw that there was blood and hair and what looked like brain tissue intermingled with that to the right area of her skull."
  • (9) In October, an episode of South Park saw the whole town go gluten-free (the stuff, it was discovered, made one’s penis fly off).
  • (10) I have the BBC app on my phone and it updates me, and I saw the wire ‘Malaysian flight goes missing over Ukraine.’ I’m like, well it’s probably the Russians who shot it down.
  • (11) "Android’s gain came mainly at the expense of BlackBerry, which saw its global smartphone share dip from 4 percent to 1 percent in the past year due to a weak line-up of BB10 devices," said Strategy Analytics' senior analyst Scott Bicheno.
  • (12) You’d know that if you listened to them and saw their presence as more than tokenism.
  • (13) Many saw the Moscow vote as a referendum on competitive elections.
  • (14) Sometimes it can seem as if the history of the City is the history of its crises and disasters, from the banking crisis of 1825 (which saw undercapitalised banks collapse – perhaps the closest historic parallel to the contemporary credit crunch), through the Spanish panic of 1835, the railway bust of 1837, the crash of Overend Gurney, the Kaffir boom, the Westralian boom, the Marconi scandal, and so on and on – a theme with endless variations.
  • (15) However, when public disquiet at the crime and social damage caused by alcohol prohibition led to its repeal, Anslinger saw his position as being in danger.
  • (16) The centre-left leader saw himself – and was widely regarded – as a dynamic force capable of reforming Italy after two decades of sclerotic politics.
  • (17) The last time I saw Ruqayah was in the summer of 2014, in a chain cafe in Cairo’s largest shopping mall.
  • (18) The newspaper is the brainchild of Jaime Villalobos, who saw homeless people selling The Big Issue while he was studying natural resource management in Newcastle.
  • (19) "Oil is extending the weakness that we saw yesterday.
  • (20) What I saw Aid workers speak out about mental health: 'I was afraid they would think I couldn't handle it' Read more The first place I visited was Nyamirambo, a neighbourhood in the south-west part of Kigali.

Sawer


Definition:

  • (n.) One who saws; a sawyer.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Sawers's views are echoed by both US and Israeli officials.
  • (2) Yesterday Sir John Sawers, recently retired as head of MI6, called for renewed cooperation between intelligence agencies and internet companies.
  • (3) In fact when Sawers called him, Hogan-Howe had not made any statement, and he apparently declined then to make "a comprehensive statement".
  • (4) Manningham-Buller, who was head of the domestic intelligence service between 2002 and 2007, lined up with her successor, Sir Jonathan Evans, and the former head of MI6 Sir John Sawers in support of remaining in Europe and at odds with another former MI6 chief, Sir Richard Dearlove.
  • (5) In the first public speech by a serving head of MI6 , Sir John Sawers made his purpose quite clear.
  • (6) Rusbridger also questioned the claims of Britain's security chiefs that the Guardian's revelations had undermined national security and – in the words of the head of MI6, Sir John Sawers – left al-Qaida rubbing its hands in glee.
  • (7) Yesterday, Sir John Sawers and Lord Evans, former heads of MI6 and MI5 respectively, wrote in a co-authored Sunday Times article that the nation’s security would be impaired by Brexit .
  • (8) A sketchy agenda was released a few days before the conference began, along with a participant list, from which we can assume that the head of MI6, Sir John Sawers, will lead the chat about "How special is the relationship in intelligence sharing?"
  • (9) Sir John Sawer, the head of MI6, for example, pointed out in an unprecedented public speech that the agencies could not afford the luxury of working only with friendly democracies.
  • (10) We all recall what happened to our embassy in Tehran ,” Sawers said.
  • (11) In vitro transcription experiments were used to provide further evidence that the gene encoding pyruvate formate-lyase (EC 2.3.1.54) from Escherichia coli is transcribed from seven promoters which cover a region of 1.2 kilobase pairs of DNA (G. Sawers and A. Böck, J.
  • (12) "There is a reasonable prospect next year they will probably want to do that," he added, pointing to previous speeches by public intelligence chiefs, including Jonathan Evans, director general of MI5 , and Sir John Sawers, head of MI6.
  • (13) Hearing impairment of various degrees was found in 83.7% of motor-sawers examined.
  • (14) Sawers doubted that Russia would let its allies in the Syrian government be attacked.
  • (15) He also disclosed the existence of a department of the Secret Intelligence Service‚ now known as MI6 but then known as section "M.I.i.c" of the War Office.7 Worst of all, Mackenzie revealed that the first head of MI6, the one-legged Captain Sir Mansfield Cumming, was referred to as C. It is a moniker that his successors, including the incumbent, Sir John Sawers, maintain.
  • (16) It's full of scenes like this: the head of MI6, Sir John Sawers having a cheery one-to-one with Carl-Henric Svanberg, the chairman of BP.
  • (17) Vibration disease was observed in 22.6% of motor-sawers, and it was suspected in 6.7%.
  • (18) Sir John Sawers, the former chief of the MI6, and Baroness Cathy Ashton, the former EU commissioner for foreign policy, were both awarded the top order of St Michael and St George.
  • (19) When Sir John Sawers, the head of MI6, appeared before the ISC at its first and only public hearing last month, he was asked whether his agency was now "beyond reproach" in such matters.
  • (20) Sawers made an indirect reference to the recent court case involving Binyam Mohamed , a British resident who was held in Guantánamo Bay, in which British judges ordered the government to reveal a summary of classified CIA information showing what MI5 agents knew of his treatment under interrogation.

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