Definition of "saw" in 英语

noun

1. A tool with a toothed blade used for cutting hard substances, in particular wood or metal.

2. A musical saw.

3. A sawtooth wave.

4. (whist) The situation where two partners agree to trump a suit alternately, playing that suit to each other for the express purpose.

verb

1. (transitive) To cut (something) with a saw.

2. (intransitive) To make a motion back and forth similar to cutting something with a saw.

3. (intransitive) To be cut with a saw.

   • The timber saws smoothly.

4. (transitive) To form or produce (something) by cutting with a saw.

   • to saw boards or planks (i.e. to saw logs or timber into boards or planks)
   • to saw shingles
   • to saw out a panel

noun

1. (obsolete) Something spoken; speech, discourse.

2. (archaic) A saying or proverb.

   • old saw
   • 2017, Andrew Marantz, "Becoming Steve Bannon's Bannon", The New Yorker, Feb 13&20 ed. There’s an old saw about Washington, D.C., that staffers in their twenties know more about the minutiae of government than their bosses do.

3. (obsolete) Opinion, idea, belief.

   • by thy saw
   • commune saw
   • on no saw

4. (obsolete) Proposal, suggestion; possibility.

   • c. 1350-1400, unknown, The Erl of Toulous All they assentyd to the sawe; They thoght he spake reson and lawe.

5. (obsolete) Dictate; command; decree.

verb

1. simple past of see

2. (colloquial, nonstandard) past participle of see