(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.
Sawn
Definition:
() of Saw
Example Sentences:
(1) We sampled a sawn-off shotgun and an assault rifle, but cops do get tasers and tear gas to add some urban flavour.
(2) Radiological findings on sawn sections and macroscopical and histological analysis of the retropatellar surface give evidence of osteoarthritic alterations and inflammation.
(3) The long bone ends of foals with infectious disease were sawn into sagittal slabs, washed and inspected.
(4) His wife, still recovering from the car "accident", tried to fight Seddon when he produced the sawn-off shotgun.
(5) The bone samples were embedded in methylmetacrylate and sawn in 400 microns thick sections with an arbitrary rotation but a fixed vertical axis.
(6) His hair, once memorably described as "a bit of an event", soars upwards in a sort of sawn-off pompadour.
(7) The African elephant, whose left tusk was sawn off, was a gift from a Portuguese king to Louis XIV in 1668.
(8) Afterwards, these jaws were sawn, and the real values were measured.
(9) When Scotsman Harry Stanley was killed by police in the same year after leaving a London pub carrying a table leg and being mistaken for an Irishman with a sawn-off shotgun he was demonised as a feckless drunk.
(10) You have done so by the barbaric act of shooting them at point-blank range with a sawn-off shotgun."
(11) As far as Bingham was concerned, wrote le Carré in the introduction, he was "a literary defector who had dragged the good name of the service through the mud", who had "supped at King Arthur's table, then sawn its legs off", and it was "no good my protesting I was engaged in a literary conceit".
(12) Therapeutically the procedure described by LADD is the best torsion prophylaxis; the ascending colon is sawn to the descending colon.
(13) In sixteen cases the claw was amputated under the coronet and in the remaining sixteen cases the claw was sawn off above the coronet, through the second phalanx.
(14) After polymerization the embedded filter was sawn into small blocks and the cell layer was sectioned tangentially on an ultramicrotome.
(15) No effect on low level of gamma-globulins and lymphatic displasia was found as sawn in an intestinal biopsy performed after three months of treatment.
(16) Some wore quilted affairs like sawn-off dressing gowns.
(17) Sixteen hours after he first drew a sawn-off shotgun from a bag and ordered the cafe closed, police stormed the building to end the standoff, Monis killed cafe manager Tori Johnson , and Monis and barrister Katrina Dawson were left dead following the gunfight.
(18) Since December we have been heating our home with a wood-burning stove using reclaimed materials - and if the bits are too large to go in, they have to be sawn in half.
(19) You obtained a sawn-off shotgun from criminal associates.
(20) The three men then drove all four victims, including the baby, to a remote area, where Lockett shot Neiman with a sawn-off shotgun after she refused to say she would not report them to police.