saw

名词 n. 动词 v.
/sɔː/|/soː/    /soː/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A tool used for cutting hard substances, in particular wood or metal.; Such a tool with a toothed blade. usually
    — Meronyms: sawtooth < sawblade
  2. Something spoken; speech, discourse. obsolete
    — And for thy trew sawys, and I may lyve many wynters, there was never no knyght better rewardid[…]. And for your true discourses, and I may live many winters, there was never no knight better rewarded[…].
  3. A tool used for cutting hard substances, in particular wood or metal.; Such a tool with an abrasive coating instead of teeth. sometimes
  4. A saying or proverb. archaic
    — old saw
  5. A musical saw.
  6. Opinion, idea, belief. obsolete
    — by thy saw
    in your opinion
  7. A sawtooth wave.
  8. Proposal, suggestion; possibility. obsolete
    — c. 1350-1400, unknown, The Erl of Toulous All they assentyd to the sawe; They thoght he spake reson and lawe.
  9. The situation where two partners agree to trump a suit alternately, playing that suit to each other for the express purpose.
  10. Dictate; command; decree. obsolete
    — [Love] rules the creatures by his powerful saw.
动词 v.
  1. To cut (something) with a saw. transitive
    — They were stoned, they were sawen asunder, were tempted, were slaine with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskinnes, and goat skins, being destitute, afflicted, tormented.
  2. simple past of see form-of,past
  3. To make a motion back and forth similar to cutting something with a saw. intransitive
    — He said he was sometimes whistling a tune to himself — for, like me, he sawed a good deal on the fiddle; […]
  4. past participle of see colloquial,form-of,nonstandard,participle,past
    — Mr. Harbaugh. All instances that I have saw.
  5. To be cut with a saw. intransitive
    — The timber saws smoothly.
  6. To form or produce (something) by cutting with a saw. transitive
    — to saw boards or planks (i.e. to saw logs or timber into boards or planks)

词形变化

saws plural saws present,singular,third-person sawing participle,present sawed past sawed participle,past sawn participle,past saws plural

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
Middle English sawe
English saw
The noun from Middle English sawe, sawgh, from Old English saga, sagu (“saw”), from Proto-West Germanic *sagu, from Proto-Germanic *sagô, *sagō (“saw”), from Proto-Indo-European *sek- (“to cut”).
Cognate with West Frisian seage (“saw”), Dutch zaag (“saw”), German Säge (“saw”), Danish sav (“saw”), Faroese, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk sag (“saw”), Swedish såg (“saw”), Icelandic sög (“saw”), and through Indo-European, with Latin secō (“cut”) and Italian sega (“saw”).
The verb from Middle English sawen, from the noun above.
词源 2
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *sekʷ-
Proto-Germanic *sagǭ
Proto-West Germanic *sagā
Old English saga
Middle English sawe
English saw
From Middle English sawe, from Old English sagu, saga (“story, tale, saying, statement, report, narrative, tradition”), from Proto-West Germanic *sagā, from Proto-Germanic *sagō, *sagǭ (“saying, story”), from Proto-Indo-European *sekʷe-, *skʷē-, from *sekʷ- (“to say”).
Cognate with Dutch sage (“saga”), German Sage (“legend, saga, tale, fable”), Danish sagn (“legend”), Norwegian soga (“story”), Icelandic saga (“story, tale, history”). More at saga, say. Doublet of saga.
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