【saw】在多语言下的意思、翻译、词源、用法、例句

英语(English)

发音(Pronunciation)

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: sô, IPA^(key): /sɔː/

  Homophones: (in some non-rhotic accents): soar, sore

• Rhymes: -ɔː
• (US) enPR: sô, IPA^(key): /sɔ/
• (cot–caught merger) enPR: sä, IPA^(key): /sɑː/

  (idiosyncratic, past tense of 'see') IPA^(key): /sɑːl/

• Audio (US)

词源1(Etymology 1)

The noun from Middle English sawe, sawgh, from Old English saga, sagu (“saw”), 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”), 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.

名词(Noun)

saw (plural saws)

1. A tool with a toothed blade used for cutting hard substances, in particular wood or metal
2. A musical saw.
3. A sawtooth wave.

衍生词(Derived terms)

派生词(Descendants)

• Sranan Tongo: sa

翻译(Translations)

动词(Verb)

saw (third-person singular simple present saws, present participle sawing, simple past sawed, past participle sawed or sawn)

1. (transitive) To cut (something) with a saw.

   1611, The Holy Bible,[…] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker,[…], OCLC 964384981, Hebrews 11:37:

   They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented;

2. (intransitive) To make a motion back and forth similar to cutting something with a saw.

   The fiddler sawed away at his instrument.

3. (intransitive) To be cut with a saw.

   The timber saws smoothly.

4. (transitive) To form or produce (something) by cutting with a saw.

   to saw boards or planks (i.e. to saw logs or timber into boards or planks)

   to saw shingles; to saw out a panel

衍生词(Derived terms)

• saw gourds
• saw wood

翻译(Translations)

词源2(Etymology 2)

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 follow”). 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.

名词(Noun)

saw (plural saws)

1. (obsolete) Something spoken; speech, discourse.
   • a. 1472, Thomas Malory, “(please specify the chapter)”, in [Le Morte Darthur], book V, [London: […] by William Caxton], published 31 July 1485, OCLC 71490786; republished as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, Le Morte Darthur[…], London: Published by David Nutt,[…], 1889, OCLC 890162034:

     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[…].

2. A saying or proverb.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:saying

   old saw

   • 1599, William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act II Scene VII, lines 152-5.

     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.

   • 1902, Charles Robert Ashbee, Masque of the Edwards of England, page 8.

     At his crowning […] the priest in his honour preached on the saw, 'Vox populi, vox Dei.'

   • 2017, Andrew Marantz, "Becoming Steve Bannon's Bannon", The New Yorker, Feb 13&20 ed.

     There’s an old saw about Washington, D.C., that staffers in their twenties know more about the minutiae of government than their bosses do.

3. (obsolete) Opinion, idea, belief.

   by thy saw ― in your opinion

   commune saw ― common opinion/knowledge

   on no saw ― by no means

   • (Can we date this quote by Polychronicon Ranulphi Higden and provide title, author's full name, and other details?)

     Þe more comoun sawe is þat Remus was i-slawe for he leep ouer þe newe walles of Rome.

     The more common opinion is that Remus was slain for he lept over the new walls of Rome.

4. (obsolete) Proposal, suggestion; possibility.
   • (Can we date this quote by Earl of Toulouse and provide title, author's full name, and other details?)

     All they assentyd to the sawe; They thoght he spake reson and lawe.

5. (obsolete) Dictate; command; decree.
   • (Can we date this quote by Spenser and provide title, author's full name, and other details?)

     [Love] rules the creatures by his powerful saw.

衍生词(Derived terms)

• soothsaw
• withsaw

翻译(Translations)

词源3(Etymology 3)

动词(Verb)

saw

1. simple past tense of see
2. (colloquial, nonstandard) past participle of see
   • 1907, Report of the Special Committee of Investigation of the Government Hospital for the Insane‎^[1], Govrnment Printing Office, page 297:

     Mr. Harbaugh. All instances that I have saw.

   • 2006, K.C. Carceral, Prison, Inc: A Convict Exposes Life Inside a Private Prison‎^[2], NYU Press, →ISBN, page 68:

     “I think so. He might have saw him already. Shit dude, I don't know. You run the place.”

   • 2014 October 7, Frances O'Roark Dowell, Anybody Shining‎^[3], Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 110:

     “I might have saw something,” I told him. “At least I think I might have saw something. Only I couldn't say what.”

感叹语(Interjection)

saw

1. (slang) What's up (either as a greeting or actual question).

   — Saw, dude?
   — Not much.

变位词(Anagrams)

• ASW, AWS, aws, was

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Atong (India)

发音(Pronunciation)

• IPA^(key): /sʰaw/

形容词(Adjective)

saw

1. rotten

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Khasi

Khasi cardinal numbers

<  3	4	5  >
Cardinal : saw

数字化(Numeral)

saw

1. four

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Kurdish

名词(Noun)

saw ?

1. terror
2. horror

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Scots

发音(Pronunciation)

• (Doric and most Southern Scots dialects) IPA^(key): /sa/
• (Central and some Southern Scots dialects) IPA^(key): /sɔ/

词源1(Etymology 1)

动词(Verb)

saw

1. (South Scots) simple past tense of sei
2. (Northern and Central) simple past tense of see

词源2(Etymology 2)

名词(Noun)

saw (plural saws)

1. A salve.

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Zhuang

发音(Pronunciation)

• (Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /θaɯ˨˦/
• Tone numbers: saw¹
• Hyphenation: saw

词源1(Etymology 1)

From Proto-Tai *sɯːᴬ (“writing; book”), from Middle Chinese 書 (MC ɕɨʌ, “writing; book”). Cognate with Lao ສື (sư̄, “letter, writing symbols”), Thai สือ (sʉ̌ʉ).

名词(Noun)

saw (old orthography səɯ, Sawndip forms 𭨡, 字, 𰗂, 𭓙)

1. written language; writing; script
2. (Chinese) character
3. word
4. book
5. teaching material
6. receipt; voucher

衍生词(Derived terms)

词源2(Etymology 2)

From Proto-Tai *saɰᴬ (“clear; clean”). Cognate with Thai ใส (sǎi, “clear; transparent”), Northern Thai ᩈᩲ, Lao ໃສ (sai), Lü ᦺᦉ (ṡay), Shan သႂ် (sǎue), Ahom 𑜏𑜧 (saw) or 𑜏𑜧𑜤 (sawu).

形容词(Adjective)

saw (old orthography səɯ, Sawndip forms 𰝓, 𢙣, 㳏)

1. clean
2. (of transparent objects, water, etc.) clear
3. (of liquids other than water) watery; thin

词源3(Etymology 3)

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “from 輸?”)

动词(Verb)

saw (old orthography səɯ, Sawndip forms 𰷙, 賒)

1. to lose