- Doctor, doctor! I"ve had a sore stomach ever since I ate three crabs last week.
- Did they smell bad when you took them out of their shells?
- What do you mean "took them out of their shells"?
ammoniac n. Ammonium chloride, a white crystalline salt. [latin sal salt, ammoniacus of jupiter ammon]
- volatile n. Solution of ammonium carbonate used as smelling-salts. [latin, = volatile salt]
SAM
abbr. Surface-to-air missile.
SAP
—n. - vital juice circulating in plants.
- vigour, vitality.
- slang foolish person. —v. (-pp-) 1 drain or dry (wood) of sap.
- weaken. [old english]
- —n. Tunnel or trench dug to get nearer to the enemy. —v. (-pp-) 1 dig saps.
- undermine. [french sappe or italian zappa spade]
SAS
abbr. Special air service.
SAT
Abbr. Saturday.
- abbr. Standard assessment task.
- past and past part. Of *sit.
SAW
—n. - hand tool with a toothed blade used to cut esp. Wood with a to-and-fro movement.
- power tool with a toothed rotating disk or moving band, for cutting. —v. (past part. Sawn or sawed) 1 cut (wood etc.) Or make (boards etc.) With a saw.
- use a saw.
- a move with a sawing motion (sawing away on his violin). B divide (the air etc.) With gesticulations. [old english]
- past of *see1.
- n. Proverb; maxim. [old english: related to *say]
SAX
n. Colloq. Saxophone. [abbreviation]
SAY
—v. (3rd sing. Present says; past and past part. Said) 1 (often foll. By that) a utter (specified words); remark. B express (say what you feel).
- (often foll. By that) a state; promise or prophesy. B have specified wording; indicate (clock says ten to six).
- (in passive; usu. Foll. By to + infin.) Be asserted (is said to be old).
- (foll. By to + infin.) Colloq. Tell to do (he said to hurry).
- convey (information) (spoke, but said little).
- offer as an argument or excuse (much to be said in favour of it).
- (often absol.) Give an opinion or decision as to (hard to say).
- take as an example or as near enough (paid, say, £20).
- recite or repeat (prayers, mass, tables, a lesson, etc.). 10 convey (inner meaning etc.) (what is the poem saying?). 11 (the said) law or joc. The previously mentioned. —n. - opportunity to express a view (let him have his say).
- share in a decision (had no say in it). i'll say colloq. Yes indeed. I say! Exclamation of surprise etc. Or drawing attention. That is to say in other words, more explicitly. [old english]
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