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ax (aks)

noun pl. ax′es

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
any similar tool or weapon, as a battle-ax, headsman's ax, etc.
☆ 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

get the ax

☆ Informal

have an ax to grind

☆

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

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

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

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

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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