核心畫面
Careful: this spelling covers more than one word. The one with a picture behind it is the tool — a flat metal blade whose edge is cut into a row of small V-shaped teeth, which you push and pull across wood until the wood comes apart. From that blade you get the verb (to saw). The past tense of see, and the 'old saw' meaning, only look the same; they are not this blade seen from another angle.
要先分清楚：saw 這個拼法底下不只一個字。真正有畫面的那個是工具——一片扁平的鐵刃，邊緣切出一排小小的 V 形齒，…更多收起
要先分清楚：saw 這個拼法底下不只一個字。真正有畫面的那個是工具——一片扁平的鐵刃，邊緣切出一排小小的 V 形齒，你推一下拉一下地在木頭上來回，木頭就被一點一點磨開。動詞的 saw（鋸）就是這片刃在動。至於 see 的過去式，還有 old saw（老話）那個意思，可以想成只是碰巧同一個拼法，不是這片鋸刃換個角度看。原始詞典資料23 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
SAWintj詞源 1
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Islamlifestylereligionصَلَّى اللّٰهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ (ṣallā llāhu ʕalayhi wa-sallama, “peace be upon him”)
Sawname詞源 1
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A surname.
Sawnoun詞源 2
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slangA Bahamian.
- Since Tea Cake and Janie had friended with the Bahaman workers in the ’Glades, they, the “Saws,” had been gradually drawn into the American crowd.
sawnoun詞源 1/sɔː/
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A tool used for cutting hard substances, in particular wood or metal.
- Meronyms: sawtooth < sawblade
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A tool used for cutting hard substances, in particular wood or metal.
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A musical saw.
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A sawtooth wave.
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The situation where two partners agree to trump a suit alternately, playing that suit to each other for the express purpose.
sawverb詞源 1/sɔː/
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To cut (something) with a saw.
- 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.
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To make a motion back and forth similar to cutting something with a saw.
- He said he was sometimes whistling a tune to himself — for, like me, he sawed a good deal on the fiddle; […]
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To be cut with a saw.
- The timber saws smoothly.
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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
sawnoun詞源 2/sɔː/
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obsoleteSomething spoken; speech, discourse.
- 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[…].
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archaicA saying or proverb.
- 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.
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obsoleteOpinion, idea, belief.
- by thy saw
- commune saw
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obsoleteProposal, suggestion; possibility.
- c. 1350-1400, unknown, The Erl of Toulous All they assentyd to the sawe; They thoght he spake reson and lawe.
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obsoleteDictate; command; decree.
- [Love] rules the creatures by his powerful saw.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。