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sawtooth

sawtooth

2 6.4
A tooth-shaped point on a saw blade that helps it cut wood
  • noun
  • /ˈsɔːˌtuːθ/
translation icon : diente de sierra
  • To secure the picture frame to the wall, attach a sawtooth hanger to its back.
  • sawtooth potential

Examples

  • The town is set among the Sawtooth Mountains, a jagged stretch of low peaks in the Arrowhead.

    Blog text (18)

  • Unlike the sawtooth pattern of MAGY, Facebook doesn't care about weekends very much.

    Blog text (26)

  • It's a nice little sawtooth pattern, right?

  • But I, I think you know this sawtooth pattern of going hard and then taking a break.

  • Other plants suggest prickliness, like sawtooth oak.

    Academic text (1995)

  • One pilot's survival knife with a sawtooth edge and sharpening stone.

    Fiction book (1993)

  • The long lappets have a sawtooth border made of folded strips of fabric.

    Academic text (1996)

  • The carpenter used a sawtooth design in the wooden panel to give it a unique look.

  • The sawtooth edges on the blade help make clean cuts through tough materials.

Synonyms

tooth
vssawtooth
  • Specialized
122 6.6

A small pointed part on a machine or tool that fits with others

is specifically one small pointed notch especially on saw blades
serration
vssawtooth
1 7.7

An edge with small tooth-like notches, like on a knife or leaf

is a single small pointed projection on the blade rather than the whole row

How Jagged

sawtooth
2 6.4
tooth
  • Specialized
122 6.6
edgeless
6.5

Surface Forms

sawtooth singular
sawteeth plural

Morphology

sawtooth = saw + tooth (transparent) = saw + tooth

Clear compound of 'saw' + 'tooth' where the meaning ('tooth-shaped projection/serration') is directly predictable from the components.

Etymology

The word sawtooth combines saw and tooth because the metal points on a saw look like 'teeth'. So a sawtooth is a small, tooth-shaped projection or notch that helps the blade cut.