(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.
Wany
Definition:
(v. i.) To wane.
(a.) Waning or diminished in some parts; not of uniform size throughout; -- said especially of sawed boards or timber when tapering or uneven, from being cut too near the outside of the log.
(a.) Spoiled by wet; -- said of timber.
Example Sentences:
(1) said Wanis Kilani, a uniformed rebel driving a pickup truck with a machine-gun mounted on the back.
(2) Don’t they have work?” Julie Wanie, a 50-year-old healthcare professional who works in Milwaukee, said she simply didn’t visit the Sherman Park neighborhood at all.
(3) The trigger for the unrest was the death in July of Burhan Muzaffar Wani , the most prominent of a new breed of homegrown, millennial militants, whose brand-building on social media, and demands for a caliphate, owe more to groups such as Islamic State than the masked Kashmiri insurgents of the 1990s.
(4) Photograph: Africa ELI The private school is run by Wani Kenneth Evans, a South Sudanese engineer who started as a bricklayer at another school project, and progressed up the ranks.
(5) Anybody that lives around here and goes to Milwaukee just knows that’s a certain area you stay out of.” Asked what she thought may have contributed to the rising tensions in the neighbourhood, Wanie replied: “I think Obama has done a lot to incite race wars.” In an earlier interview with Fox News, Trump had indicated he believed the shooting of Smith on Saturday was a justified response by law enforcement despite no body camera footage of the incident being released.
(6) We have to do jihad with Pakistan as well.” Before his death, Wani had appeared to drift towards the rhetoric of global Islamist movements such as al-Qaida, calling in 2015 for a “caliphate [to be] established in Kashmir”.
(7) Pakistan’s criticism of India for its security forces’ killing of Burhan Wani, a Kashmiri separatist commander whose death on 8 July has sparked months of civilian protests , has further poisoned relations.
(8) The death of Burhan Wani, a commander of the Hizbul Mujahideen group, tipped Kashmir into one of its worst crises in years.
(9) Wani’s death last July in a clash with Indian soldiers triggered weeks of protests that paralysed the valley.
(10) Wani, thought to be 21, was shot dead by Indian police.
(11) The protests erupted after Burhan Wani , chief of operations of Hizbul Mujahideen, Kashmir’s largest rebel group, was killed in fighting with Indian troops on Friday.
(12) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Young Kashmiris pelt Indian police officers with stones in protest at the killing of Burhan Wani.
(13) Photograph: Handout He succeeded another militant, Burhan Wani , as the commander of the militant group Hizbul Mujahideen.
(14) He fought for a noble cause,” the 16-year-old, from Pulwama district, said of Wani.
(15) For example, the unique damage reversal mechanism by transferase, specific for the repair of O6-alkylGua, results in the restoration of intact guanine base in both bacteria and mammalian cells (Olsson and Lindahl, 1980; D'Ambrosio and Wani, 1989).
(16) Wani, who was in his early 20s, had become the face of militancy in Kashmir over the last five years.
(17) The conformation described here is very similar to that found for the related drug carminomycin I (Wani, M.C., Taylor, H.L., Wall, M.E., McPhaill, A.T. and Onan, K.D.
(18) The current vice-president, James Wani Igga, will remain in his post, but rank below Machar.
(19) Translating for him was midfielder Justin Wani, who casually mentioned that his father was killed during the war with the north.
(20) Through Nick's relationship with the super-rich Wani Ouradi, and the rising and falling fortunes of the Fedden family, the novel examines the wider political context of a greedy, ruthless decade – there is even a cameo for Margaret Thatcher herself – and the dark spectre of the AIDS epidemic looms over the latter stages of the novel.