saw

1. 1.

   cut with a saw

   “saw wood for the fireplace”

   Broadercut

   Narrowerwhipsaw

Other forms of saw

plural

saws·

past tense or participle

sawn

present participle

sawing·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about saw

What does saw mean?

saw means "a condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in saw?

saw has 1 syllable: saw. In IPA it is /ˈsɔ/.

What is another word for saw?

Close synonyms include proverb, adage, byword, power saw, sawing machine. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is saw a common word?

saw is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with saw?

9 words rhyme with saw. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.