Saw
Past form of: Seenoun
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- (Old saying maxim; proverb; aphorism adage) បុរាណភាសិត, ភាសិត, ពាក្យចាស់
Example: A roiling stone gathers no moss's an old saw. - 2.
- (a cutting tool having a thin metal blade with sharp teeth; along or around the edge of a thin flat blade) រណារ (សម្រាប់អារ)
verb — past tense: Sawed ; past participle: Sawn/Sawed ; present participle: Sawing ; 3rd person singular present Saws
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- (TRANSITIVE) (To cut or shape with a saw; to move the hands and arms as if sawing) អារ (អាររំលំ, អារផ្ដួល ។)
Example: Cut with a saw, Dang sawed the sticks for his kite out of crate.
ENGLISH MEANING
noun
- 1.
- An instrument for cutting or dividing substances, as wood, iron, etc., consisting of a thin blade, or plate, of steel, with a series of sharp teeth on the edge, which remove successive portions of the material by cutting and tearing.
verb — past tense: Sawed ; past participle: Sawn/Sawed ; present participle: Sawing ; 3rd person singular present Saws
- 1.
- (TRANSITIVE) To cut with a saw; to separate with a saw; as, to saw timber or marble.
- 2.
- (TRANSITIVE) To form by cutting with a saw; as, to saw boards or planks, that is, to saw logs or timber into boards or planks; to saw shingles; to saw out a panel.
- 3.
- (TRANSITIVE) Also used figuratively; as, to saw the air.
- 4.
- (INTRANSITIVE) To use a saw; to practice sawing; as, a man saws well.
- 5.
- (INTRANSITIVE) To cut, as a saw; as, the saw or mill saws fast.
- 6.
- (INTRANSITIVE) To be cut with a saw; as, the timber saws smoothly.
- 7.
- (TRANSITIVE) Something said; speech; discourse.
- 8.
- (TRANSITIVE) Dictate; command; decree.
- 1.
- A saying, a proverb, a maxim