Sayname

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  A surname.

sayverb詞源 1/seɪ/

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  To pronounce.

  • Please say your name slowly and clearly.
• 2

  To recite.

  • Martha, will you say the Pledge of Allegiance?
  • Then everybody once more knelt, and soon the blessing was pronounced. The choir and the clergy trooped out slowly, […], down the nave to the western door. […] At a seemingly immense distance the surpliced group stopped to say the last prayer.
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  To tell, either verbally or in writing.

  • He said he would be here tomorrow.
  • The note I think he said she wrote is nowhere to be found.
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  To indicate in a written form.

  • The sign says it’s 50 kilometres to Paris.
  • What time does it say on the clock?
• 5

  To have a common expression; used in singular passive voice or plural active voice to indicate a rumor or well-known fact.

  • They say "when in Rome, do as the Romans do", which means "behave as those around you do."
  • They say that Hope is happiness; But genuine Love must prize the past.
• 6

  informalSuppose, assume; used to mark an example, supposition or hypothesis.

  • A holiday somewhere warm – Florida, say – would be nice.
  • Say he refuses. What do we do then?
• 7

  To speak; to express an opinion; to make answer; to reply.

  • You have said; but whether wisely or no, let the forest judge
  • To this argument we shall soon have said; for what concerns it us to hear a husband divulge his household privacies?
• 8

  informalbusinessfinancemoneyTo bet as a wager on an outcome; by extension, used to express belief in an outcome by the speaker.

  • 'My fifty pounds says three months after the invasion there'll be a free press in Iraq, and unmonitored internet access too.'

saynoun詞源 1/seɪ/

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  A chance to speak; the right or power to influence or make a decision.

  • The local government did not have much say in the matter.
  • Above all, however, we would like to think that there is more to be decided, after the engines and after the humans have had their says.

sayadv詞源 1/seɪ/

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  For example; let us assume.

  • Pick a color you think they'd like, say, peach.
  • He was driving pretty fast, say, fifty miles per hour.

sayintj詞源 1/seɪ/

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  Used to gain someone's attention before making an inquiry or suggestion

  • Say, what did you think about the movie?

saynoun詞源 2/seɪ/

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  A type of fine cloth similar to serge.

  • Per.[igot] VVell decked in a frocke of gray, / Will.[y] hey ho, gray is greet, / Per. And in a kirtle of greene ſaye, / Will. the greene is for maydens meete.
  • All in a kirtle of diſcolourd ſay / He clothed was […]

sayverb詞源 3/seɪ/

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  To try; to assay.

  • I, that had sayed on one of his customers sutes.

saynoun詞源 3/seɪ/

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  Trial by sample; assay; specimen.

  • If those principal works of God […] be but certain tastes and says, as if were, of that final benefit.
  • Thy tongue some say of breeding breathes.
• 2

  Tried quality; temper; proof.

  • He found a sword of better say.
• 3

  Essay; trial; attempt.

  • This fellow, Captaine, Will come, in time, to be a great distiller, And giue a say[…]at the philosophers stone.

saynoun詞源 4/seɪ/

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  A strainer for milk.