saw
- IPA[sɔː]
英式
- a hand tool for cutting wood or other hard materials, typically with a long, thin serrated blade and operated using a backwards and forwards movement.；a mechanical power-driven tool for cutting which has a toothed rotating disc or moving band.
- cut (something) using a saw；make or form (something) using a saw
verb: saw, 3rd person present: saws, gerund or present participle: sawing, past tense: sawed, past participle: sawn
- 釋義
- 片語
名詞
- 1. a hand tool for cutting wood or other hard materials, typically with a long, thin serrated blade and operated using a backwards and forwards movement.
- ▪ a mechanical power-driven tool for cutting which has a toothed rotating disc or moving band.
- ▪ a serrated organ or part, such as the toothed snout of a sawfish.
動詞
- 1. cut (something) using a saw the top of each post is sawn off at railing height thieves escaped after sawing through iron bars on a window
- ▪ make or form (something) using a saw the seats are sawn from well-seasoned elm planks
- ▪ cut (something) as if with a saw, especially roughly or so as to leave rough or unfinished edges the woman sawed off all my lovely hair
- 2. make rapid to-and-fro motions in cutting something or in playing a stringed instrument he was sawing away energetically at the loaf
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