buzz sawとは

意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• buzz-saw

名詞

buzz saw (複数形 buzz saws)

1. A powerful, noisy, motorized saw, typically having a rotary blade with large teeth, sometimes portable and sometimes mounted into a table.
   • 1905, Henry Adams, chapter 12, in The Education of Henry Adams:

     The American mind exasperated the European as a buzz-saw might exasperate a pine forest.

   • 1916, Robert Frost, "Out, Out–":

     The buzz-saw snarled and rattled in the yard

     And made dust and dropped stove-length sticks of wood

   • 1987 May 25, David Brand, "Tick, Buzz, It's That Time Again Locusts?," Time (retrieved 27 May 2014):

     A population in full song can exceed 100 decibels, roughly the level of a circular buzz saw at full throttle.

   • 2003 April 14, John Tagliabue, "Another Daring Jailbreak Embarrasses French Government," New York Times (retrieved 27 May 2014):

     [T]hree inmates were freed today by accomplices who descended on a prison in central France in a helicopter, then used a buzz saw to rip through security netting.

同意語

• circular saw

参照

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名詞

buzzsaw (複数形 buzzsaws)

1. A circular saw.
   • 2008 May 30, Andrew Martin, “Food Report Criticizes Biofuel Policies”, in New York Times^[1]:

     Agriculture Secretary Edward T. Schafer is preparing to walk into a buzzsaw of criticism over American biofuels policy when he meets with world leaders to discuss the global food crisis next week.

動詞

buzzsaw (三人称単数 現在形 buzzsaws, 現在分詞 buzzsawing, 過去形および過去分詞形 buzzsawed)

1. (transitive) To cut with a circular saw.
2. (intransitive, colloquial) To spin rapidly like the blades of a circular saw.
3. (intransitive, colloquial) To produce a loud, harsh noise like that of a circular saw.