Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To cut with a jig- or scroll-saw.
- noun A reciprocating saw caused to operate in proper relation with a table upon which the piece to be sawn is held, the motion of the saw being derived from a crank and pitman.
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Examples
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Excavators and scientists say they are piecing together a giant jig-saw puzzle to understand what Los Angeles was like between 11,000 and 40,000 years ago.
Scientists Search Trove of Ice Age Fossils in Los Angeles 2011
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These can be a big jig-saw puzzle that you spread out on a table, a game of Scrabble, card games, I Spy, or Simon Says (but play it with a twist, asking children to do the opposite of the directions you call out).
Ellen Galinsky: Seven Ways to Help Your Children Thrive During Summer 2010
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These can be a big jig-saw puzzle that you spread out on a table, a game of Scrabble, card games, I Spy, or Simon Says (but play it with a twist, asking children to do the opposite of the directions you call out).
Ellen Galinsky: Seven Ways to Help Your Children Thrive During Summer 2010
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Too much information jammed into too little space: virtually impossible to read without a microscope; deciphering “How to Use This Dictionary” is like trying put together a Chinese jig-saw puzzle.
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Panenteric IBD-like disease in a patient with regressive autism shown for the first time by wireless capsule enteroscopy: Another piece in the jig-saw of the gut-brain syndrome?
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Like one big jig-saw puzzle that isn't complete yet, until your last breathe.
The Point of No Return floreta 2009
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Panenteric IBD-like disease in a patient with regressive autism shown for the first time by wireless capsule enteroscopy: Another piece in the jig-saw of the gut-brain syndrome?
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Panenteric IBD-like disease in a patient with regressive autism shown for the first time by wireless capsule enteroscopy: Another piece in the jig-saw of the gut-brain syndrome?
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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Like one big jig-saw puzzle that isn't complete yet, until your last breathe.
Archive 2009-10-01 floreta 2009
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Within Iraq itself, the U.S. military has created ethnic zones, dividing neighborhoods into jig-saw puzzles of 10-foot high concrete barriers that separate Sunnis from Shias.
Rep. John Murtha: "Mission Accomplished" - Five Years Later 2008
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