"sawback" meaning in All languages combined

See sawback on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: sawbacks [plural]
Etymology: saw + back Etymology templates: {{compound|en|saw|back}} saw + back Head templates: {{en-noun}} sawback (plural sawbacks)
  1. (often attributive) A back (dorsal, spinal, or spinelike aspect) that is a saw or is sawlike in form, as:
    A ridge or mountain range whose silhouette is suggestive of sawteeth.
    Tags: attributive, often
    Sense id: en-sawback-en-noun-vqhL1Ri4 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English links with manual fragments Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 67 33 Disambiguation of English links with manual fragments: 58 42
  2. (often attributive) A back (dorsal, spinal, or spinelike aspect) that is a saw or is sawlike in form, as:
    A knife, often a machete, whose spine has sawteeth.
    Tags: attributive, often
    Sense id: en-sawback-en-noun-HMiXfs8x Categories (other): English terms with collocations
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: saw-edged, sawlike, sawtooth, saw-tooth, saw-toothed, sawtoothed, Montserrat, serrated, serration

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for sawback meaning in All languages combined (2.7kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "saw",
        "3": "back"
      },
      "expansion": "saw + back",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "saw + back",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "sawbacks",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "sawback (plural sawbacks)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "saw-edged"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "sawlike"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "sawtooth"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "saw-tooth"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "saw-toothed"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "sawtoothed"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "Montserrat"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "serrated"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "serration"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "67 33",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "58 42",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English links with manual fragments",
          "parents": [
            "Links with manual fragments",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Holonym: sierra"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A back (dorsal, spinal, or spinelike aspect) that is a saw or is sawlike in form, as:",
        "A ridge or mountain range whose silhouette is suggestive of sawteeth."
      ],
      "id": "en-sawback-en-noun-vqhL1Ri4",
      "links": [
        [
          "back",
          "back#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "dorsal",
          "dorsal"
        ],
        [
          "spinal",
          "spinal"
        ],
        [
          "spinelike",
          "spinelike"
        ],
        [
          "saw",
          "saw#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "sawlike",
          "sawlike"
        ],
        [
          "ridge",
          "ridge"
        ],
        [
          "mountain range",
          "mountain range"
        ],
        [
          "silhouette",
          "silhouette"
        ],
        [
          "suggestive",
          "suggestive"
        ],
        [
          "sawteeth",
          "sawtooth"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(often attributive) A back (dorsal, spinal, or spinelike aspect) that is a saw or is sawlike in form, as:",
        "A ridge or mountain range whose silhouette is suggestive of sawteeth."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "attributive",
        "often"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms with collocations",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with collocations",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "sawback knife   sawback machete",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A back (dorsal, spinal, or spinelike aspect) that is a saw or is sawlike in form, as:",
        "A knife, often a machete, whose spine has sawteeth."
      ],
      "id": "en-sawback-en-noun-HMiXfs8x",
      "links": [
        [
          "back",
          "back#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "dorsal",
          "dorsal"
        ],
        [
          "spinal",
          "spinal"
        ],
        [
          "spinelike",
          "spinelike"
        ],
        [
          "saw",
          "saw#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "sawlike",
          "sawlike"
        ],
        [
          "knife",
          "knife"
        ],
        [
          "machete",
          "machete"
        ],
        [
          "spine",
          "spine"
        ],
        [
          "sawteeth",
          "sawtooth"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(often attributive) A back (dorsal, spinal, or spinelike aspect) that is a saw or is sawlike in form, as:",
        "A knife, often a machete, whose spine has sawteeth."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "attributive",
        "often"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "sawback"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English compound terms",
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English links with manual fragments",
    "English nouns"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "saw",
        "3": "back"
      },
      "expansion": "saw + back",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "saw + back",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "sawbacks",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "sawback (plural sawbacks)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "saw-edged"
    },
    {
      "word": "sawlike"
    },
    {
      "word": "sawtooth"
    },
    {
      "word": "saw-tooth"
    },
    {
      "word": "saw-toothed"
    },
    {
      "word": "sawtoothed"
    },
    {
      "word": "Montserrat"
    },
    {
      "word": "serrated"
    },
    {
      "word": "serration"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Holonym: sierra"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A back (dorsal, spinal, or spinelike aspect) that is a saw or is sawlike in form, as:",
        "A ridge or mountain range whose silhouette is suggestive of sawteeth."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "back",
          "back#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "dorsal",
          "dorsal"
        ],
        [
          "spinal",
          "spinal"
        ],
        [
          "spinelike",
          "spinelike"
        ],
        [
          "saw",
          "saw#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "sawlike",
          "sawlike"
        ],
        [
          "ridge",
          "ridge"
        ],
        [
          "mountain range",
          "mountain range"
        ],
        [
          "silhouette",
          "silhouette"
        ],
        [
          "suggestive",
          "suggestive"
        ],
        [
          "sawteeth",
          "sawtooth"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(often attributive) A back (dorsal, spinal, or spinelike aspect) that is a saw or is sawlike in form, as:",
        "A ridge or mountain range whose silhouette is suggestive of sawteeth."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "attributive",
        "often"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with collocations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "sawback knife   sawback machete",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A back (dorsal, spinal, or spinelike aspect) that is a saw or is sawlike in form, as:",
        "A knife, often a machete, whose spine has sawteeth."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "back",
          "back#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "dorsal",
          "dorsal"
        ],
        [
          "spinal",
          "spinal"
        ],
        [
          "spinelike",
          "spinelike"
        ],
        [
          "saw",
          "saw#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "sawlike",
          "sawlike"
        ],
        [
          "knife",
          "knife"
        ],
        [
          "machete",
          "machete"
        ],
        [
          "spine",
          "spine"
        ],
        [
          "sawteeth",
          "sawtooth"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(often attributive) A back (dorsal, spinal, or spinelike aspect) that is a saw or is sawlike in form, as:",
        "A knife, often a machete, whose spine has sawteeth."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "attributive",
        "often"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "sawback"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.