(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.
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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.
Sawtooth
Definition:
(n.) An arctic seal (Lobodon carcinophaga), having the molars serrated; -- called also crab-eating seal.
Example Sentences:
(1) A sawtooth-shaped pattern with both normal and abnormal IUT values was observed in 10% of these children.
(2) Additionally, five patients with chronic pain were studied by computed tomography of T-8 to T-12, with confirmation of the sawtooth shape of the dorsal epidural space.
(3) An all-inclusive four-day trek like the writer’s with Sawtooth Mountain Guides starts at $1,000pp.
(4) This deficit in cone responsiveness to light offset becomes increasingly subnormal as rods dark adapt and, when completely dark adapted, the ESS observer is nearly blind to 1 Hz rapid-off sawtooth waveforms.
(5) The propagating sawtooth waves contain a sharp bend, approximately 3 micron in length, made up of two opposing flexures followed by a straight helical segment approximately 23 micron long.
(6) The present study separately examined the influences of rod light and dark adaptation upon cone-mediated sensitivity to transient increases or decreases in illumination using sawtooth flicker with rapid-on (ramp-off) or rapid-off (ramp-on) waveforms.
(7) Because asymmetrical dosing creates irregular, sawtooth-like changes in plasma concentrations and a fall below a critical threshold level during the night, tolerance does not develop.
(8) It seemingly wants to be a slender cylinder, but contradicts itself with a sawtooth plan.
(9) The average wavelength is approximately 25 micron, and three to four sawtooth waves travel along the axostyle at one time.
(10) Peripheral invasion often manifested as spotty-nodular, sawtoothed-wavy and tumefied shape with medium signal intensity on T1-weighted images.
(11) Temporal contrast sensitivity was measured for mirror-image sawtooth (rapid-on and rapid-off) and sine waveforms for a 1.8 deg foveal target.
(12) But when the target points were embedded in the sawtooth surfaces their depths were systematically misperceived in a manner predicted by the incorrect depth interpretation of the background points.
(13) Temporal contrast sensitivity functions were measured for rapid-on and rapid-off sawtooths and for sine wave stimuli (for 2-26 Hz, mean retinal illuminance of 500 td, circular target of 1.8 deg, foveal).
(14) Mirror-image sawtooth waveforms (rapid-on and rapid-off) were used to test for differences in sensitivity to incremental and decremental stimuli.
(15) The "sawtooth" strategy gives little guidance as to which DMARD(s) should be chosen for initial treatment.
(16) For stimulus movements in a plane orthogonal to the congenital nystagmus, normal sawtooth optokinetic responses were exhibited by both groups.
(17) At 5 td, contrast sensitivity functions for sawtooth and sine waveforms, expressed in terms of the Fourier fundamental amplitude, are equivalent.
(18) Three different waveforms were used: sinusoidal, sawtooth (triangular), and square.
(19) Exposure to a large uniform field modulated in luminance by a sawtooth function, repeating between 1 and 5 times per second, raised the threshold for detection of a test stimulus of similar waveform by a factor of 2 to 4.5.
(20) 41.9, pI 5.5) accumulates linearly with time of day, resembling a sawtooth oscillator.