What's the difference between saw and taw?

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.

Taw


Definition:

  • (n.) Tow.
  • (v. t.) To push; to tug; to tow.
  • (v. t.) To prepare or dress, as hemp, by beating; to tew; hence, to beat; to scourge.
  • (v. t.) To dress and prepare, as the skins of sheep, lambs, goats, and kids, for gloves, and the like, by imbuing them with alum, salt, and other agents, for softening and bleaching them.
  • (n.) A large marble to be played with; also, a game at marbles.
  • (n.) A line or mark from which the players begin a game of marbles.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Drawbacks of traction-absorbing wiring (TAW) in displaced fractures of the olecranon were observed in 29 out of 55 consecutive patients.
  • (2) A hybridoma secreting human monoclonal antibody (MAB) against Pseudomonas aeruginosa exotoxin A (PEA) was constructed by fusing Epstein-Barr virus-transformed peripheral blood lymphocytes with human B lymphoblastoid cell line TAW-925.
  • (3) We studied airway wall temperature (Taw) during dry air challenge of the canine lung periphery.
  • (4) Intravenous salbutamol (2.5 micrograms.kg-1) significantly attenuated the peak fall in Taw during airflow challenge and the peak rise in Rcs following challenge.
  • (5) Using a wedged bronchoscope technique, collateral resistance (Rcs) and airway wall temperature (Taw) were measured before and after a 2-min exposure to dry air.
  • (6) The dissociation between Taw and physiological response after indomethacin likely reflects a decrease in mediators released during challenge.
  • (7) In contrast, aerosolized salbutamol (50 micrograms) minimally decreased the fall in Taw during airflow challenge, while virtually eliminating AIB.
  • (8) Buddha fatigue can set in for travel-weary tourists, but I rallied myself to visit Sein Taw Ya, about 14 miles south of Mawlamyine, which is claimed to be the largest reclining Buddha in the world.
  • (9) The woman was then reunited with a man and a child who had been trapped in the car when the River Taw broke its banks and had been rescued by firefighters.
  • (10) After lowering Taw with cooled blood for 2 min, Rcs did not rise.
  • (11) The HAT (hypoxanthine, aminopterin, thymidine) sensitive and ouabain resistant human B lymphoblastoid cell line TAW-925 was obtained from 6-thioguanine resistant B lymphoblastoid cell line WI-L2.
  • (12) A significant negative correlation was found between Taw recorded during challenge and Rcs observed 5 min after challenge.
  • (13) By changing the temperature of blood perfusing the lobe it was possible to lower Taw without affecting either EHL or osmolarity.
  • (14) Soe Win’s uncle, Taw Phaya, a 93-year-old potential heir, and aunt, Hteik Su Phaya Gyi, 94, are the only surviving grandchildren.
  • (15) Contrast study of the wound canal, thoracoscopy, and diagnostic pneumoperitoneum make it possible to establish or reject the diagnosis of TAW in all patients examined.
  • (16) Day and night he walked the nearby cliffs and beaches or the high moors drained by the rivers Taw and Torridge.
  • (17) The TAW scenario proved more efficacious in determining affective components of attitudes than behavioral aspects.
  • (18) Two questionnaires were administered: MacDonald's Attitude toward Homosexuality Scale--Female (ATHS--F) and the TAW Attitude toward Lesbianism Scenario.
  • (19) Minor operative modifications in the TAW technique are suggested in order to avoid these drawbacks.
  • (20) As flow rate increased, Taw dropped and postchallenge Rcs rose.

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