Definition of saw

"saw" in the noun sense

1. proverb, adage, saw, byword

a condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people

2. saw

hand tool having a toothed blade for cutting

3. power saw, saw, sawing machine

a power tool for cutting wood

"saw" in the verb sense

1. see

perceive by sight or have the power to perceive by sight

"saw wood for the fireplace"

"You have to be a good observer to see all the details"

"Can you see the bird in that tree?"

"He is blind

2. understand, realize, realise, see

perceive (an idea or situation) mentally

"Now I see!"

"I just can't see your point"

"Does she realize how important this decision is?"

"I don't understand the idea"

3. witness, find, see

perceive or be contemporaneous with

"We found Republicans winning the offices"

"You'll see a lot of cheating in this school"

"The 1960's saw the rebellion of the younger generation against established traditions"

"I want to see results"

4. visualize, visualise, envision, project, fancy, see, figure, picture, image

imagine conceive of see in one's mind

"I can't see him on horseback!"

"I can see what will happen"

"I can see a risk in this strategy"

5. see, consider, reckon, view, regard

deem to be

"She views this quite differently from me"

"I consider her to be shallow"

"I don't see the situation quite as negatively as you do"

6. learn, hear, get word, get wind, pick up, find out, get a line, discover, see

get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally

"I learned that she has two grown-up children"

"I see that you have been promoted"

7. watch, view, see, catch, take in

see or watch

"view a show on television"

"This program will be seen all over the world"

"view an exhibition"

"Catch a show on Broadway"

"see a movie"

8. meet, run into, encounter, run across, come across, see

come together

"I'll probably see you at the meeting"

"How nice to see you again!"

9. determine, check, find out, see, ascertain, watch, learn

find out, learn, or determine with certainty, usually by making an inquiry or other effort

"I want to see whether she speaks French"

"See whether it works"

"find out if he speaks Russian"

"Check whether the train leaves on time"

10. see, check, insure, see to it, ensure, control, ascertain, assure

be careful or certain to do something make certain of something

"He verified that the valves were closed"

"See that the curtains are closed"

"control the quality of the product"

11. see

go to see for professional or business reasons

"You should see a lawyer"

"We had to see a psychiatrist"

12. see

go to see for a social visit

"I went to see my friend Mary the other day"

13. visit, see

go to see a place, as for entertainment

"We went to see the Eiffel Tower in the morning"

14. attend, take care, look, see

take charge of or deal with

"Could you see about lunch?"

"I must attend to this matter"

"She took care of this business"

15. see

receive as a specified guest

"the doctor will see you now"

"The minister doesn't see anybody before noon"

16. go steady, go out, date, see

date regularly have a steady relationship with

"Did you know that she is seeing an older man?"

"He is dating his former wife again!"

17. see

see and understand, have a good eye

"The artist must first learn to see"

18. see

deliberate or decide

"See whether you can come tomorrow"

"let's see

19. see

observe as if with an eye

"The camera saw the burglary and recorded it"

20. examine, see

observe, check out, and look over carefully or inspect

"The customs agent examined the baggage"

"I must see your passport before you can enter the country"

21. experience, see, go through

undergo or live through a difficult experience

"We had many trials to go through"

"he saw action in Viet Nam"

22. see, escort

accompany or escort

"I'll see you to the door"

23. see

match or meet

"I saw the bet of one of my fellow players"

24. interpret, construe, see

make sense of assign a meaning to

"What message do you see in this letter?"

"How do you interpret his behavior?"

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Quotations for saw

I saw and loved. [ Gibbon ]

I came, saw, and overcame. [ Shakespeare ]

I never saw an eye so bright,
And yet so soft as hers;
It sometimes swam in liquid light.
And sometimes swam in tears;
It seemed a beauty set apart
For softness and for signs. [ Mrs. Welby ]

He knows not a hawk from a hand-saw. [ Proverb ]

Silently as a dream the fabric rose;
No sound of hammer or of saw was there. [ Cowper ]

The sepulchre,
Wherein we saw thee quietly inurn'd,
Hath op'd his ponderous and marble jaws. [ William Shakespeare ]

You are afraid of the dog you never saw. [ Proverb ]

Her air, her manners, all who saw admired;
Courteous though coy, gentle though retired. [ Crabbe ]

You saw out your tree before you cut it down. [ Proverb ]

A hand-saw is a good thing, but not to shave with. [ Proverb ]

So I'm ugly. I never saw anyone hit with his face. [ Yogi Berra ]

He gave a deep sigh; I saw the iron enter into his soul. [ Sterne ]

They never saw great dainties that think a haggis a feast. [ Proverb ]

And, as she looked around, she saw how Death, the consoler,
Laying his hand upon many a heart, had healed it forever. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

I never saw a man die of hunger, but thousands die of overfeeding. [ Spanish Proverb ]

Then came your new friend: you began to change - I saw it and grieved. [ Tennyson ]

When the eye sees what it never saw, the heart will think what it never thought. [ Proverb ]

What pretty things men will make for money, quoth the old woman, when she saw a monkey. [ Proverb ]

We have not read an author till we have seen his object, whatever it may be, as he saw it [ Carlyle ]

I saw one excellency was within my reach - it was brevity; and I determined to obtain it. [ Jay ]

We should often be ashamed of our best actions if the world saw the motives which inspire us. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

Once he saw a youth blushing, and addressed him, Courage, my boy; that is the complexion of virtue. [ Diogenes Laertius ]

Milton saw not, and Beethoven heard not, but the sense of beauty was upon them, and they fain must speak. [ Ruskin ]

No human capacity ever yet saw the whole of a thing; but we may see more and more of it the longer we look. [ John Ruskin ]

If you ever saw a crow with a kingbird after him, you will get an image of a dull speaker and a lively listener. [ Holmes ]

Never did poesy appear so full of heaven to me as when I saw how it pierced through pride and fear to the lives of coarsest men. [ Lowell ]

Sir Amyas Pawlet, when he saw too much haste made in any matter, was wont to say, Stay awhile, that we may make an end the sooner. [ Bacon ]

Every period of life has its peculiar prejudices; whoever saw old age, that did not applaud the past, and condemn the present times? [ Montaigne ]

I knew a wise man who had it for a by-word when he saw men hasten to a conclusion: Stay a little, that we may make an end the sooner. [ Bacon ]

Intuition is the clear conception of the whole at once. It seldom belongs to man to say without presumption, I came, I saw, I conquered. [ Lavater ]

O, grief hath changed me since you saw me last; and careful hours, with Time's deformed hand, have written strange defeatures in my face! [ William Shakespeare ]

I would not despair unless I knew the irrevocable decree was passed; saw my misfortune recorded in the book of fate, and signed and sealed by necessity. [ Jeremy Collier ]

Drawing near her death, she sent most pious thoughts as harbingers to heaven; and her soul saw a glimpse of happiness through the chinks of her sickness-broken body. [ Thomas Fuller ]

Be not cast down. If ye saw Him who is standing on the shore, holding out His arms to welcome you to land, ye would wade, not only through a sea of wrongs, but through hell itself to be with Him. [ Rutherford ]

He who boasts of being perfect is perfect in folly. I never saw a perfect man. Every rose has its thorns, and every day its night. Even the sun shows spots, and the skies are darkened with clouds; and faults of some kind nestle in every bosom. [ Spurgeon ]

Despair makes a despicable figure, and descends from a mean original. 'Tis the offspring of fear, of laziness and impatience; it argues a defect of spirit and resolution, and oftentimes of honesty, too. I would not despair unless I saw misfortune recorded in the book of fate, and signed and sealed by necessity. [ Collier ]

Lord Bacon told Sir Edward Coke when he boasted, The less you speak of your greatness, the more I shall think of it. Mirrors are the accompaniments of dandies, not heroes. The men of history were not perpetually looking in the glass to make sure of their own size. Absorbed in their work they did it, and did it so well that the wondering world saw them to be great, and labeled them accordingly. [ Rev. S. Coley ]

saw in Scrabble®

The word saw is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 6

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saw in Words With Friends™

The word saw is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 6

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Word Growth involving saw

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Longer words containing saw

backsaw backsaws

balsawood balsawoods

bowsaw bowsaws

buzzsaw buzzsaws

chainsaw chainsawed

chainsaw chainsawing

chainsaw chainsaws

hacksaw hacksawed

hacksaw hacksawing

hacksaw hacksawn

hacksaw hacksaws

handsaw handsawfish handsawfishes

handsaw handsaws

jigsaw jigsawed

jigsaw jigsawing

jigsaw jigsawn

jigsaw jigsaws

misaward misawarded

misaward misawarding

misaward misawards

outsaw

oversaw

pitsaw pitsaws

quartersaw quartersawed

quartersaw quartersawing

quartersaw quartersawn

quartersaw quartersaws

resaw foresaw

resaw resawed

resaw resawing

resaw resawn

resaw resaws

sawback sawbacks

sawbellies

sawbelly

sawbill sawbills

sawblade sawblades

sawbones sawboneses

sawbuck sawbucks

sawdust sawdusted

sawdust sawdusting

sawdust sawdustish

sawdust sawdustlike

sawdust sawdusts

sawdust sawdusty

sawed chainsawed

sawed hacksawed

sawed jigsawed

sawed quartersawed

sawed resawed

sawed seesawed

sawed whipsawed

sawer sawers

sawfish handsawfish handsawfishes

sawfish sawfishes handsawfishes

sawflies

sawfly

sawgrass sawgrasses

sawhorse sawhorses

sawing chainsawing

sawing hacksawing

sawing jigsawing

sawing quartersawing

sawing resawing

sawing seesawing

sawing whipsawing

sawlike

sawmaker sawmakers

sawmaking

sawman

sawmen

sawmill sawmills

sawn hacksawn

sawn jigsawn

sawn quartersawn

sawn resawn

sawn tablesawn

sawn whipsawn

sawpit sawpits

saws backsaws

saws bowsaws

saws buzzsaws

saws chainsaws

saws hacksaws

saws handsaws

saws jigsaws

saws pitsaws

saws quartersaws

saws resaws

saws sawsetter sawsetters

saws sawshark sawsharks

saws sawsmith sawsmithing

saws sawsmith sawsmiths

saws seesaws

saws splitsaws

saws tablesaws

saws whipsaws

sawteeth

sawtooth sawtoothed

sawwort sawworts

sawyer sawyers

seesaw seesawed

seesaw seesawing

seesaw seesaws

splitsaw splitsaws

tablesaw tablesawn

tablesaw tablesaws

unsawable

whipsaw whipsawed

whipsaw whipsawing

whipsaw whipsawn

whipsaw whipsaws