A chainsaw (or chain saw) is a portable, mechanical saw which cuts with a set of teeth attached to a rotating chain that runs along a guide bar. It is used in activities such as tree felling, limbing, bucking, pruning, to fell snags and assist in cutting firebreaks in wildland fire suppression, and to harvest firewood. Chainsaws with specially designed bar and chain combinations have been developed as tools for use in chainsaw art and chainsaw mills. Specialist chainsaws are used for cutting concrete. Chainsaws are sometimes used for cutting ice, for example for ice sculpture and in Finland for winter swimming. Someone who uses a saw is a sawyer.
A chainsaw consists of several parts:
Chainsaw is a portable motorized saw.
Chainsaw may also refer to:
"Chainsaw" is a song recorded by American country music group The Band Perry. It was released in March 3, 2014 as the fourth single from their second album, Pioneer. The song was written by Shane McAnally, Josh Osborne, Matthew Ramsey.
One of the writers who help write the song, Matthew Ramsey originally recorded the song with his band Old Dominion (band).
"Chainsaw" is a song about a woman who, when jilted by her lover, destroys a tree into which the two carved their initials.
Giving it a "B+", Tammy Ragusa of Country Weekly said that the song "casts the Perry siblings in a fiercer light" and was "clever, groovy, hooky, and fun".
The music video for "Chainsaw" was filmed at two locations in Oregon: Silver Falls State Park near Silverton and the Bottle Factory, a local bar in Stayton. It was directed by David McClister and premiered in May 2014.
An epitome (/ᵻˈpɪtəmiː/; Greek: ἐπιτομή, from ἐπιτέμνειν epitemnein meaning "to cut short") is a summary or miniature form; an instance that represents a larger reality, also used as a synonym for embodiment. Epitomacy represents, "to the degree of." An abridgment differs from an epitome in that an abridgment is made of selected quotations of a larger work; no new writing is composed, as opposed to the epitome, which is an original summation of a work, at least in part.
Many documents from the Ancient Greek and Roman worlds survive now only "in epitome", referring to the practice of some later authors (epitomators) who wrote distilled versions of larger works now lost. Some writers attempted to convey the stance and spirit of the original, while others added further details or anecdotes regarding the general subject. As with all secondary historical sources, a different bias not present in the original may creep in.
Documents surviving in epitome differ from those surviving only as fragments quoted in later works, and those used as unacknowledged sources by later scholars, as they can stand as discrete documents, albeit refracted through the views of another author.
An epitome (pronounced /ɪˈpɪt.ə.mi/ ; originally from the Ancient Greek ἐπιτομή epitomḗ meaning "abridgment" or "cut") is a summary or miniature form of a text. The word is also commonly used to label something or someone considered to be a prime or the best example of something (as in, for example, "She looked the epitome of haute couture"). It may otherwise refer to:
An epitome, in data processing, is a condensed digital representation of the essential statistical properties of ordered datasets such as matrices that represent images, audio signals, videos or genetic sequences. Although much smaller than the data, the epitome contains many of its smaller overlapping parts with much less repetition and with some level of generalization. As such, it can be used in tasks such as data mining, machine learning and signal processing.
The first use of epitomic analysis was with image textures for the purposes of image parsing. Epitomes have also been used in video processing to replace, remove or superresolve imagery.
Epitomes are also being investigated as tools for vaccine design.