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Jigsaw   /dʒˈɪgsˌɔ/   Listen
Jigsaw

noun
1.
A portable power saw with a reciprocating blade; can be used with a variety of blades depending on the application and kind of cut; generally have a plate that rides on the surface that is being cut.  Synonyms: reciprocating saw, saber saw.
2.
Fine-toothed power saw with a narrow blade; used to cut curved outlines.  Synonyms: fretsaw, scroll saw.



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"Jigsaw" Quotes from Famous Books



... Hume is thus seen to be illusory. Immediate experience does not require 'synthesis': it calls for 'analysis.' It is not a jigsaw puzzle, to be pieced together without glue: it is a confused whole which has to be divided and set in order for clear thinking. Hume's mistake was to have started from experience as partly analysed ...
— Pragmatism • D.L. Murray
... great conqueror of Europe, who after the Italian campaign, set this bee among his own personal symbols and called it Napoleonic. Yes, these things interest us enormously, personally, for they pique imagination and help memory to fit together neatly the wandering bits of history's jigsaw puzzle. Besides this, they help the work of identifying old tapestries, a pleasure so keen that every ...
— The Tapestry Book • Helen Churchill Candee


Words linked to "Jigsaw" :   saw, sawing machine, power saw


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