Knife vs. Saw

Knifenoun

A utensil or a tool designed for cutting, consisting of a flat piece of hard material, usually steel or other metal (the blade), usually sharpened on one edge, attached to a handle. The blade may be pointed for piercing.

Sawnoun

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

Knifenoun

A weapon designed with the aforementioned specifications intended for slashing and/or stabbing and too short to be called a sword. A dagger.

Sawnoun

A musical saw.

Knifenoun

Any blade-like part in a tool or a machine designed for cutting, such as that of a chipper.

Sawnoun

A sawtooth wave.

Knifeverb

(transitive) To cut with a knife.

Sawnoun

(obsolete) Something spoken; speech, discourse.

Knifeverb

(transitive) To use a knife to injure or kill by stabbing, slashing, or otherwise using the sharp edge of the knife as a weapon.

Sawnoun

(often old saw) A saying or proverb.

Knifeverb

(intransitive) To cut through as if with a knife.

Sawnoun

(obsolete) Opinion, idea, belief; by thy ~, in your opinion; commune ~, common opinion; common knowledge; on no ~, by no means.

Knifeverb

(transitive) To betray, especially in the context of a political slate.

Sawnoun

(obsolete) Proposal, suggestion; possibility.

Knifeverb

(transitive) To positively ignore, especially in order to denigrate. compare cut

Sawnoun

(obsolete) Dictate; command; decree.

Knifenoun

An instrument consisting of a thin blade, usually of steel and having a sharp edge for cutting, fastened to a handle, but of many different forms and names for different uses; as, table knife, drawing knife, putty knife, pallet knife, pocketknife, penknife, chopping knife, etc..

Sawverb

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

‘They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented;’;

Knifenoun

A sword or dagger.

‘The coward conquest of a wretch's knife.’;

Sawverb

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

‘The fiddler sawed away at his instrument.’;

Knifeverb

To prune with the knife.

Sawverb

(intransitive) To be cut with a saw.

‘The timber saws smoothly.’;

Knifeverb

To cut or stab with a knife.

Sawverb

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

‘to saw boards or planks (i.e. to saw logs or timber into boards or planks)’; ‘to saw shingles; to saw out a panel’;

Knifeverb

Fig.: To stab in the back; to try to defeat by underhand means, esp. in politics; to vote or work secretly against (a candidate of one's own party).

Sawinterjection

(slang) what's up (either as a greeting or actual question)

‘— Saw, dude?
— Not much.’;

Knifenoun

edge tool used as a cutting instrument; has a pointed blade with a sharp edge and a handle

Saw

imp. of See.

Knifenoun

a weapon with a handle and blade with a sharp point

Sawnoun

Something said; speech; discourse.

Knifenoun

any long thin projection that is transient;

‘tongues of flame licked at the walls’; ‘rifles exploded quick knives of fire into the dark’;

Sawnoun

A saying; a proverb; a maxim.

‘His champions are the prophets and apostles,His weapons holy saws of sacred writ.’;

Knifeverb

use a knife on;

‘The victim was knifed to death’;

Sawnoun

Dictate; command; decree.

‘[Love] rules the creatures by his powerful saw.’;

Knife

A knife (plural knives; from Old Norse knifr 'knife, dirk') is a tool or weapon with a cutting edge or blade, often attached to a handle or hilt. One of the earliest tools used by humanity, knives appeared at least 2.5 million years ago, as evidenced by the Oldowan tools.

Sawnoun

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.

Sawverb

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

Sawverb

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.

Sawverb

Also used figuratively; as, to saw the air.

Sawverb

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

Sawverb

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

Sawverb

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

Sawnoun

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

Sawnoun

hand tool having a toothed blade for cutting

Sawnoun

a power tool for cutting wood

Sawverb

cut with a saw;

‘saw wood for the fireplace’;

Saw

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.