Epigram vs. Saw — What's the Difference?

An epigram is a brief, interesting, memorable, and sometimes surprising or satirical statement. The word is derived from the Greek ἐπίγραμμα epigramma "inscription" from ἐπιγράφειν epigraphein "to write on, to inscribe", and the literary device has been employed for over two millennia.

A saw is a tool consisting of a tough blade, wire, or chain with a hard toothed edge. It is used to cut through material, very often wood though sometimes metal or stone.

A short, witty poem expressing a single thought or observation.

Any of various tools, either hand-operated or power-driven, having a thin metal blade or disk with a sharp, usually toothed edge, used for cutting wood, metal, or other hard materials.

A concise, clever, often paradoxical statement.

A familiar saying, especially one that has become trite through repetition.

Epigrammatic discourse or expression.

To cut or divide with a saw.

(obsolete) An inscription in stone.

To produce or shape with a saw

A brief but witty saying.

To make back-and-forth motions through or on

A short, witty or pithy poem.

To use a saw

A short poem treating concisely and pointedly of a single thought or event. The modern epigram is so contrived as to surprise the reader with a witticism or ingenious turn of thought, and is often satirical in character.

To undergo cutting with a saw

An effusion of wit; a bright thought tersely and sharply expressed, whether in verse or prose.

Past tense of see1.

The style of the epigram.

A tool with a toothed blade used for cutting hard substances, in particular wood or metal.

A witty saying

Such a tool with an abrasive coating instead of teeth.

A musical saw.

A sawtooth wave.

(obsolete) Something spoken; speech, discourse.

(archaic) A saying or proverb.

(obsolete) Opinion, idea, belief.

(obsolete) Proposal, suggestion; possibility.

(obsolete) Dictate; command; decree.

(transitive) To cut (something) with a saw.

(intransitive) To make a motion back and forth similar to cutting something with a saw.

(intransitive) To be cut with a saw.

(transitive) To form or produce (something) by cutting with a saw.

Something said; speech; discourse.

A saying; a proverb; a maxim.

Dictate; command; decree.

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.

To cut with a saw; to separate with a saw; as, to saw timber or marble.

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.

Also used figuratively; as, to saw the air.

To use a saw; to practice sawing; as, a man saws well.

To cut, as a saw; as, the saw or mill saws fast.

To be cut with a saw; as, the timber saws smoothly.

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

Hand tool having a toothed blade for cutting

A power tool for cutting wood

Cut with a saw;