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ax¹ Definition

ax (aks)

noun pl. axes

  1. a tool for chopping trees and splitting wood: it has a long wooden handle and a metal head with a blade usually on only one side
  2. any similar tool or weapon, as a battle-ax, headsman's ax, etc.
  3. Slang a musical instrument

Etymology: ME < OE eax, æx < IE base *agw(e)si > Goth aqizi, Gr axinē, L ascia

transitive verb axed, ax·ing

  1. to trim, split, etc. with an ax
  2. to cut off, remove, get rid of, etc.

ax¹ Idioms

get the ax

Informal
  1. to be executed by beheading
  2. to be discharged from one's job

have an ax to grind

Informal to have an object of one's own to gain or promote

ax² Definition

ax

  1. axiom
  2. axis

ax Synonyms

ax

n.

hatchet, adz, mattock, tomahawk, battle-ax, poleax, pickax, cleaver, broadax, hand ax, single-bitted ax, double-bitted ax.

get the ax*

be fired, be dismissed, be discharged, be dropped from the payroll, be let go, get the boot*, get the sack*.

have an ax to grind*

have an ulterior motive, have a hidden agenda, have one's own agenda, have one's own ends to promote.

ax Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • take: This 40 x 40 ft rock looks as if God took an ax and split the rock in half.
  • use: Another Chetnik sexually assaulted women and killed internees, in some cases using an ax to the head.
  • have: He tells them that he has got to have an ax and a hickory stake.
  • wield: In a burst of fear and rage, I ran at it wielding the ax as hard as I could.

Adjective modifier

  • ps: Typing ps ax on Saturday usually gave me a half dozen processes to kill.
  • quadratic: Consider the general quadratic equation ax 2 + bx + c = 0 where a 0.
  • top: Back to Top T ax and Indemnities A key question in assessing the value of a settlement deal concerns the impact of tax.

Modifies a noun

  • machine: F-Zero AX machine parts Cheats Successfully complete the game in story mode on the hard difficulty setting to unlock the F-Zero AX machine parts.
  • degree: SURFACE rotates AX degrees about the x -axis, tilting the data toward the viewer.
  • car: A road traffic collision then occurred at Finaghy Road Crossroads involving the Citroen AX car and two other vehicles.
  • arcade: Alternately, finish a F-Zero AX arcade machine track in first place and save the data to a memory card.
  • n: One very simple model assumes that a proportion, ax n, say, breed successfully and that bx n 2 die from overcrowding.
  • register: However, future DPMI implementations will return error codes in the AX register.

Noun used with modifier

  • T: Square matrices A and B are congruent if there exists a non-singular X such that B = X T AX.
  • form: Page 25 No need to do Activity 4. Page 25 Graphs of the form ax + by = c.
  • ps: To see how many processes there are, type ps ax.
  • equation: Consider the general quadratic equation ax 2 + bx + c = 0 where a 0.
  • register: AH was really just the higher byte of register AX; and AL the lower byte.
  • type: To see how many processes there are, type ps ax.

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