saw

1. (transitive) To cut (something) with a saw.Examples: "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."transitive

2. (intransitive) To make a motion back and forth similar to cutting something with a saw.Examples: "He said he was sometimes whistling a tune to himself — for, like me, he sawed a good deal on the fiddle; […]"intransitive

3. (intransitive) To be cut with a saw.Examples: "The timber saws smoothly."intransitive

4. (transitive) To form or produce (something) by cutting with a saw.Examples: "to saw boards or planks (i.e. to saw logs or timber into boards or planks)"; "to saw shingles"; "to saw out a panel"transitive

1. (obsolete) Something spoken; speech, discourse.Examples: "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[…]."obsolete

2. (archaic) A saying or proverb.Examples: "old saw"; "And then the justice, / In fair round belly with good capon lined, / With eyes severe and beard of formal cut, / Full of wise saws and modern instances."; "At his crowning[…] the priest in his honour preached on the saw, 'Vox populi, vox Dei.'"Synonyms: byword, saying, adage, saw, proverb, maxim, apothegm, apophthegmarchaic

3. (obsolete) Opinion, idea, belief.Examples: "by thy saw"; "commune saw"; "on no saw"obsolete

4. (obsolete) Proposal, suggestion; possibility.Examples: "c. 1350-1400, unknown, The Erl of Toulous All they assentyd to the sawe; They thoght he spake reson and lawe."obsolete

5. (obsolete) Dictate; command; decree.Examples: "[Love] rules the creatures by his powerful saw."obsolete

1. (colloquial, nonstandard) past participle of seeExamples: "Mr. Harbaugh. All instances that I have saw."; "“I think so. He might have saw him already. Shit dude, I don't know. You run the place.”"; "“I might have saw something,” I told him. “At least I think I might have saw something. Only I couldn't say what.”"colloquialform-ofnonstandardparticiplepast

1. (Islam, sometimes proscribed) صَلَّى اللّٰهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ (ṣallā llāhu ʕalayhi wa-sallama, “peace be upon him”)Synonyms: PBUH, ASproscribedsometimes

1. (military, US) Acronym of squad automatic weapon or section automatic weapon, a kind of light machine gun.USabbreviationacronymalt-of

2. (physics) Initialism of surface acoustic wave.abbreviationalt-ofinitialism