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Definition: Adze |
AdzeNoun1. An edge tool used to cut and shape wood. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "adze" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1719. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Food & Agriculture | A tool used by coopers for trimming the surface of planks or staves. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Examples of adzes from the olden days of the Maori people of New Zealand, used in their Maori wood carving, exist that are made from nephrite, also known as jade. Jade and/or stone adzes from other cultures emerge in various studies and excavations of these cultures.
More modern adzes are made from steel with wooden handles, and some people still use them extensively, probably those in semi-industrial areas, but particularly 'revivalists' such as exist at the Williamsburg cultural center in Virginia, USA. However adzes' traditional purpose has largely been replaced by the sawmill and the power-planer, at least in industrialized cultures.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Adze."
Synonym: AdzeSynonym: adz (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Sharpness | Wedge; knife edge, cutting edge; blade, edge tool, cutlery, knife, penknife, whittle, razor, razor blade, safety razor, straight razor, electric razor; scalpel; bistoury, lancet; plowshare, coulter, colter; hatchet, ax, pickax, mattock, pick, adze, gill; billhook, cleaver, cutter; scythe, sickle; scissors, shears, pruning shears, cutters, wire cutters, nail clipper, paper cutter; sword; (arms); bodkin; (perforator); belduque, bowie knife, paring knife; bushwhacker; drawing knife, drawing shave; microtome; chisel, screwdriver blade; flint blade; guillotine. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Adze |
| English words defined with "adze": Addice. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "adze": Addice. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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 | Native Micronesian making a paddle with an adze for his outrigger canoe.Credit: Small World. |  | Production. Submarine chasers. Getting out keel timbers for 110-foot subchasers at an Eastern boatyard. The big oak pieces are shaped with a saw and adze, then planed to a beautiful smooth finish. Each keel is a load for fourteen men. Marine Construction.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Adze" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Adze" is used about 17 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 17 | 85,106 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "adze": adze-blade. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
adze | 55 |
adze mixxe | 16 |
adze aquarius daily horoscope | 4 |
adze tool | 3 |
adze horoscope | 3 |
adze astrology | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "adze"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | sqepar (adz), gdhend (adz, carve, chase, chisel, die, enchase, engrave, gouge, incise, inscribe, intaglio, Nick, polish, rasp, refine, sculp, sculpt, sculpture, shape, shave). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | منحت (chisel), قطع أو نجز. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | тесла (adz), дялам с тесла (adz). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | tesla, skoble. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | tværøkse, skaroekse, skarøkse, boedkeroekse, bødkerøkse. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | dissel (hitch evener, neckyoke, pole, shaft, swingle bar, swingle tree, tongue, tongue truck, whippletree). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Faeroese | øks. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | talsokirves. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | herminette. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Krummhaue, Dexel, Deichsel (shaft, tongue, whiffletree), Dechsel. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | σκέπαρνο (adz), σκεπάρνι (adz, lath hammer), ξύστρο βαρελοποιού, ξυλουργικό τσεκούρι με καμπυλωτή κόψη. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | קר"ום (axe, hatchet). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | bárd (adz, bard, blade, hacker, hatchet, pole axe). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | kapak besar, beliung (carpenter adze, hatchet, pick, pickax). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | ascia (ax, axe, hatchet), accetta curva, zappa curva, tagliare con l'ascia (hew). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 手斧 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ておの, ちょうな. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 까뀌. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | taal (secretion). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | adzeay enxó (adz). (various references) teslã. (various references) тесло (adz, adzes). (various references) t l. (various references) tesla (adz), tesati drvo (adz), bradva (adz). (various references) azuela (adz). (various references) tväryxa, skarvyxa (adz), dexel. (various references) marangoz keseri, keser (bill). (various references) стругати (adz, chip, plane, shave), струг (adz, strickle), тесати (adz, char, hack), тесло (adz), обтісувати (adz, beard, broach, character, chip, citify, dub, polish, surface). (various references) rìu lưỡi vòm (adz). (various references) neddau. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "adze": adzes. (additional references) | |
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"Adze" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: acz, Aczel, adae, Adaza, adaze, adde, ade, adef, adeg, adew, adex, adge, adie, adize, adoe, adoze, adre, adse, adsf, Adsgey, Adshel, adsl, adsm, Adso, adsr, adue, adve, adxe, Adza, adzee, adzel, adzer, adzit, adzor, adzs, aize, Aizik, Aizu, amd, Andze, anze, arza, Arzew, arzo, Arzu, atz, auz, aza, azd, aze, azea, azed, azef, Azem, azen, azi, azoe, azz, azza, daeza, dazee, dazel, dazem, dazi, dazix, dazo, dazu, dazz, dz, gadze, ladze, madzi, Nadzab, sdez. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: daze. | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-z" | |
-1 letter: adz, zed. | |
-2 letters: ad, ae, de, ed. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-z" | |
+1 letter: adoze, adzes, azide, dazed, dazes, fazed, gazed, hazed, lazed, mazed, razed. | |
+2 letters: amazed, azides, azoted, blazed, brazed, crazed, dazzle, feazed, glazed, grazed, jazzed, lazied, razeed, razzed, zagged, zander, zapped. | |
+3 letters: agnized, anodize, begazed, cadenza, damozel, dazedly, dazzled, dazzler, dazzles, deglaze, deutzia, dialyze, diazine, diazole, dualize, fazenda, huzzaed, mazedly, razored, teazled, unfazed, unrazed, upgazed, waltzed, weazand, zanders, zedoary, zenaida, zonated. | |
+4 letters: agatized, agenized, agonized, amazedly, analyzed, anodized, anodizes, apprized, arabized, atomized, azotised, azotized, baptized, bedazzle, blazoned, brazened, cadenzas, capsized, credenza, damozels, dazzlers, deglazed, deglazes, denazify, deutzias, dialyzed, dialyzer, dialyzes, diazepam, diazines, diazoles, dualized, dualizes, emblazed, faradize, fazendas, frazzled, gazetted, gazumped, hazarded, huzzahed, idealize, imblazed, kyanized, laicized, mazaedia, nazified, ozonated, realized, reglazed, rendzina, stanzaed, teazeled, thiazide, unglazed, vizarded, weazands, zemindar, zenaidas. | |
+5 letters: activized, advertize, alkalized, amortized, aphorized, arborized, archaized, autolyzed, avianized, banalized, bedazzled, bedazzles, botanized, calorized, canalized, canonized, caponized, catalyzed, crazyweed, credenzas, cruzadoes, curarized, czardases, dazedness, deglazing, diabolize, dialyzate, dialyzers, diazepams, diazotize, dogmatize, dramatize, equalized, faradized, faradizes, feudalize, finalized, focalized, gazehound, graecized, hebraized, hepatized, humanized, hydrazide, hydrazine, idealized, idealizer, idealizes, imidazole, japanized, jarovized, laterized, latinized, legalized, lespedeza, localized, maximized, mazaedium, melanized, metalized, moralized, nasalized, notarized, organized, outblazed, outdazzle, paganized, paralyzed, patinized, pearlized, penalized, polarized, quantized, racemized, randomize, rendzinas, romanized, ruralized, salinized, sanitized, satirized, solarized, stargazed, teazelled, tetanized, thiazides, totalized, trapezoid, urbanized, valorized, vandalize, vaporized, varisized, velarized, vitalized, vocalized, womanized, zapateado, zebrawood, zedoaries, zemindars, zemindary, zigzagged, zinfandel. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 64 7A 65 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- -.. --.. . |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01100100 01111010 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A d z e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0064 007A 0065 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)35709271 |
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