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saw English

Meaning saw meaning

What does saw mean?
Definitions in simple English

saw Noun

— A saw is a tool with sharp teeth used to cut something hard like wood. The man used a saw to cut the wood into pieces.

saw

— verb cut with a saw saw wood for the fireplace — noun hand tool having a toothed blade for cutting — noun (= power saw) a power tool for cutting wood — noun (= proverb) a condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people

Synonyms saw synonyms

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saw English » English

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SAW English » English

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Topics saw topics

What do people use saw to talk about?
Work and occupation Occupation

Working with wood
Language and thought Communication Story

Saying, proverb
Work and occupation Occupation Working with wood

Lumbering
Work and occupation Tool

Cutting tool
Grammar Semantic constituents related to verbs

Evidentials

Conjugation saw conjugation

How do you conjugate saw?

saw · verb

Examples saw examples

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Simple sentences

We saw the gleam of a distant lighthouse.
Do you remember when I saw you last?
Waiting for Kate, I saw Bob and Mary.
I saw Bill in the library yesterday.
I saw her a week ago.
I saw Tom play tennis.
I saw an old man fall on his back in the street.
I saw him go out.
We saw nothing strange.
We saw many ships in the harbor.
I haven't seen you for ages. Do you remember when I saw you last?
I saw him running.
When I left the train station, I saw a man.
I never saw a red fridge.
I saw you with a tall boy.
We saw her off at the airport.
I saw something strange in the sky.
The express train went by so fast that we hardly saw it.
When she saw that they had no schools, she started one.
I saw a fishing boat about a mile off the shore.
We looked out the window but saw nothing.
We actually saw the accident.
We saw the film and had dinner together.
I saw the moon above the roof.
We saw the bird when we visited Okinawa.
It happened that I saw my friend walking in the distance.
I saw a flock of birds flying aloft.
Arriving at the airport, I saw the plane taking off.
Strange to say, he saw the ghost of his father.
Outside the school, she saw people with no homes living in cardboard boxes.

Movie subtitles

He immediately saw Malindi's potential as a trading post.
He's upset because we just saw some guy get shot in the face.
I was kind of a bit shocked because I didn't think she saw me as that kind of person.
I was- - I saw her.
You saw her where?
I saw it in his eyes, okay?
When I saw that look in his eyes, I just felt that I needed to take a step back.
It's because I saw it that I need to resolve this.
Earlier, when I saw that woman I remembered something.
We want to talk to the last person who saw him alive, and we want to know why he ended up dead in a refrigerator.
Nobody thought to raise a red flag when they saw a body in a fridge?
I saw it.
After I saw Josh in the hospital, I realized she always goes back to him.
Every time I saw you, I wanted to tell you everything.
He discovered moons around Jupiter and saw how these orbited around the planet in hours and days.
For the Egyptians it was Isis' wheat, the Incas saw it as golden star dust, for the Eskimos it was a band of snow and the Christians thought of it as the road to Rome.
And this map shows the combination of the Dutch results, that we saw in colour just before, and the Australian results.
That isn't what we saw when we arrived, Colonel.
I saw her.
I saw Bahia this afternoon.
In Paris, they saw fit to grant me French citizenship.
You never saw him again?
You saw the play, Tris. I know that it sounds messed up, but everything.
I saw her during the play. I helped her open the door to the roof.
He was the last person who saw her the night of the play.
And then I saw.
I saw him when I was in my car and now he is here.
My actions were based on what I saw. I read the situation, and I lead my squad.
I just saw Patti eating a peanut butter sandwich.
Well, I saw what was happening when the wrong people ran it.
I saw it sticking out.
Didn't like what I saw, so I went AWOL.
I saw an article about you and Yi Ryeong.
SAW ME AS SOME BRAT WHO GOT IN THE WAY.
YOU SAW THE TEXTS. I'M MISSING IT.
Every time I saw your name, I wanted to pick up the phone.

News and current affairs

And this year's elections saw a more intensive presence of party organizations at European level than ever before.
But few saw, for instance, the Artic ice cap melting as rapidly as now seems to be the case.
Suddenly, everyone saw just how much America's system of corporate surveillance and control had deteriorated during the bubble of the 1990s.
Communism's fall saw the appearance of several small states in Europe.
As soon as the midwife saw that the baby was coming out feet forward, she must have known that there was little she could do to save either mother or baby.
However, as we saw in 2004 and 2005, exports are not enough to create substantial growth if domestic demand does not follow.
President Barack Obama's election two years ago positively shocked Arabs and empowered Arab democrats, who saw it as proof of America's true democratic nature.
Their governments saw themselves as Qaddafi's hostages.
The more that Russians, Poles, Czechs, and others saw of the life-style in the Western democracies, the more they questioned their own system.
Meanwhile, Argentina's neighbor and Mercosur trading partner, Brazil, saw its currency depreciate - some say that it became significantly undervalued.
The past ten years saw industries and social security privatized and international trade liberalized.
Most people saw the consolidation of smaller firms into fewer, large firms as a stabilizing development that rewarded success and allowed for further productive investment.
I grew up in an industrial town on the south shore of Lake Michigan - Gary, Indiana - and saw poverty, unemployment, and discrimination.
But the global downturn may also accentuate protectionism, especially if nationalistic impulses gain the upper hand, perhaps stimulated by fire-sales of domestic assets (as we saw during the Asian financial crisis).
He saw one black male standing inside the house and asked him to come out.
Villagers whose crops shriveled and whose livestock died in a prolonged drought saw joining the Taliban as an economic opportunity.
Against that background, it is hard to believe that we will quickly return to the heady growth in financial assets, credit, and risk we saw from the 1970's to 2007.
At the same time, Burundi's Hutu saw Rwanda as a role model and believed their ethnic majority should guarantee them de facto control of the country.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, some analysts described the resulting world as unipolar and saw few constraints on American power.
But the US saw things very differently in the 1960's, when the ghosts of Munich hovered over Vietnam's jungles.
Villagers whose crops shriveled and whose livestock died in a prolonged drought saw joining the Taliban as an economic opportunity. Had there been more irrigation, the Taliban's gains might have been far less impressive.
Soon, however, he was recoiling from what he saw as a chaos of competing ideas.
Musharraf went to Ferozeshah Kotala cricket ground in Delhi and saw his team win the match.

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