Saw vs Sword - What's the difference?
saw | sword |
A tool with a toothed blade used for cutting hard substances, in particular wood or metal
A musical saw.
A sawtooth wave.
To cut (something) with a saw.
To make a motion back and forth similar to cutting something with a saw.
To be cut with a saw.
To form or produce (something) by cutting with a saw.
(label) Something spoken; speech, discourse.
*, Bk.V:
*:And for thy trew sawys , and I may lyve many wynters, there was never no knyght better rewardid.
(often old saw ) A saying or proverb.
(label) Opinion, idea, belief; by thy ~, in your opinion; commune ~, common opinion; common knowledge; on no ~, by no means.
*Polychronicon Ranulphi Higden
*:Þe more comoun sawe is þat Remus was i-slawe for he leep ouer þe newe walles of Rome.
(label) Proposal, suggestion; possibility.
*Earl of Toulouse
*:All they assentyd to the sawe ; They thoght he spake reson and lawe.
(label) Dictate; command; decree.
*Spenser
*:[Love] rules the creatures by his powerful saw .
(see)
(weaponry) A long-bladed weapon having a handle and sometimes a hilt and designed to stab, hew, or slice.
* 1591 , William Shakespeare, Henry VI , Part III, Act II, Scene II, line 59.
* 1786 , Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons , page 49.
Someone paid to handle a sword.
(tarot) A suit in the minor arcana in tarot.
(tarot) A card of this suit.
(weaving) One of the end bars by which the lay of a hand loom is suspended.
As a noun sword is
(weaponry) a long-bladed weapon having a handle and sometimes a hilt and designed to stab, hew, or slice .saw
English
(wikipedia saw)Etymology 1
From (etyl) sawe, from (etyl) saga, .Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* backsaw * band saw, bandsaw * buzz saw * chainsaw * chop saw * circular saw * coping saw * crosscut saw * fretsaw * hacksaw * handsaw * hole saw * Japanese-style handsaw * jigsaw * miter saw, mitre saw * power saw * razor-tooth saw * reciprocating saw * rift saw * rip saw * sawbones * sawhorse * sawtooth * scroll saw * table saw * tenon sawVerb
- The fiddler sawed away at his instrument.
- The timber saws smoothly.
- to saw boards or planks (i.e. to saw logs or timber into boards or planks)
- to saw''' shingles; to '''saw out a panel
Etymology 2
From (etyl) sawe, from (etyl) sagu, . More at (l), (l).Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* See alsoEtymology 3
See see . Cognate with Dutch zag, German sah, Danish .Verb
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Alternative forms
* (l) (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- Unsheathe your sword and dub him presently.
- Some swords were also made solely to thrust, and some only to cut; others were equally adapted for both.