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Definition: Axe |
AxeNoun1. An edge tool with a heavy bladed head mounted across a handle. Verb1. Chop or split with an ax, as of wood. 2. Terminate, as of a project or a program; "The NSF axed the research program and stopped funding it". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "axe" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
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Computing | AXe |
Bible | Axe used in the Authorized Version of Deut. 19:5; 20:19; 1 Kings 6:7, as the translation of a Hebrew word which means "chopping." It was used for felling trees (Isa. 10:34) and hewing timber for building. It is the rendering of a different word in Judg. 9:48, 1 Sam. 13:20, 21, Ps. 74:5, which refers to its sharpness. In 2 Kings 6:5 it is the translation of a word used with reference to its being made of iron. In Isa. 44:12 the Revised Version renders by "axe" the Hebrew _maatsad_, which means a "hewing" instrument. In the Authorized Version it is rendered "tongs." It is also used in Jer. 10:3, and rendered "axe." The "battle-axe" (army of Medes and Persians) mentioned in Jer. 51:20 was probably, as noted in the margin of the Revised Version, a "maul" or heavy mace. In Ps. 74:6 the word so rendered means "feller." (See the figurative expression in Matt. 3:10; Luke 3:9.). Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. |
Dream Interpretation | Seeing an axe in a dream, foretells that what enjoyment you may have will depend on your struggles and energy. To see others using an axe, foretells, your friends will be energetic and lively, making existence a pleasure when near them. For a young woman to see one, portends her lover will be worthy, but not possessed with much wealth. A broken or rusty axe, indicates illness and loss of money and property. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Literature | Axe "To hang up one's axe." To retire from business, to give over a useless project. The allusion is to the ancient battle-axe, hung up to the gods when the fight was done. All classical scholars will call to mind the allusion of Horace to a similar Roman custom. Being snubbed by Pyrrha, he says, "He will hang up his axe upon her wall," or more literally, his "drenched garments on the temple-walls of Neptune." (1 Odes, V. 14--17.) (See Ask.) To put the axe on the helve. To solve a difficulty. To hit the right nail on the head. To send the axe after the helve. To spend good money after bad, or under the hope of recovering bad debts. He has an axe to grind. Some selfish motive in the background: some personal interest to answer. Franklin tells of a man who wanted to grind his axe, but had no one to turn the grindstone. Going to the yard where he saw young Franklin, he asked the boy to show him how the machine worked, and kept praising him till his axe was ground, and then laughed at him for his pains. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Axe is a river in the South of England. See: River AxeAn axe or ax is a tool with a metal blade that is securely fastened at a 90 degree angle to a handle, usually of wood. The typical use for an axe is to split wood and chop down trees, but alternative uses in the past have included the battle-axe and the throwing-axe (the Frankish axe or francesca), both used in war. cf tomahawk.
Axe of iron from Swedish Iron Age, found at
Gotland, SwedenThe method for fastening the blade to the handle has varied over time. It can be lashed, as was probably common in old stone axes, but also simple 'wedged', whereby the end of the handle is slit, then inserted into a socket in the blade, and is held tight by a wedge introduced into the slit and pounded in with a mallet.
The axe is one of the human race's oldest tools: long before the discovery of metal, stone axeheads were fastened to wooden handles.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Axe."
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The guillotine is a machine used for decapitation.
It consists of a tall upright frame (approx 4m high) from which is suspended a heavy triangular blade (approx 40kg). The blade is hauled to the top of the frame on a stout cord and held in place while the victim has his/her head placed in a restraining bar. The cord is released and the heavy blade falls a distance of 2.3m, severing the neck. (Heights and weights are the French standards.)
Guillotine like devices existed and were used for executions on the British islands before the French Revolution but the French developed the machine further and became the first nation to use it as a standard execution method. On April 25, 1792 highwayman Nicolas J. Pelletier became the first person executed by guillotine. It takes its name from Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, a French doctor, on whose suggestion it was introduced. The basis for his recommendation is believed to have been his perception that it was a humane form of execution, contrasting with methods such as hanging (often resulting in a long agony) or beheading with an ax (the executioner could miss the neck). There is some debate over this as some authorities believe that the victim can remain conscious for up to 30 seconds after decapitation.
The guillotine was the newest method of execution at the time, considered more humane than the previous methods. Before the guillotine, an executioner used a sword or axe. Sometimes it took repeated blows to completely sever the head. The family of the victim or the victim itself would sometimes pay the executioner to ensure that the blade was sharp in order for a quick and relatively painless death.
The electric chair and lethal injection have since superseded the guillotine in jurisdictions that practice capital punishment. The guillotine was the only legal execution method in France until the death penalty's abolishment in 1981, apart from certain crimes against the security of the state. The last execution took place on September 10, 1977.
In France, executions by guillotine were also regarded as a public entertainment that attracted great crowds of spectators. The last public execution was of Eugene Weidmann, who was convicted for six murders. It took place on September 10, 1939 at 4:32 in the afternoon outside the prison Saint Pierre rue Georges Clémenceau 5 at Versailles, which is now the Palais de Justice. The scandalous behaviour of some of the onlookers on this occasion caused the authorities to decide that executions in the future were to take place in the prison courtyard.
From Napoleonic times, the guillotine was used in many places in Germany. The Nazis employed it extensively: twenty guillotines were in use in Germany and (from 1938) in Austria. As many as 20,000 people may have been executed; for an example see White Rose.
The guillotine was not, however, a French invention—although Guillotin is often named as its inventor, it had a history as a farm implement used for killing poultry in Germany, England, and Persia before being introduced as a method of capital punishment.
Pronunciation Note
There is some conflict as to how the word guillotine should be pronounced. The word entered English from French in 1793, and since then authorities on pronunciation have debated, not whether guillotine should be pronounced GIL-uh-TEEN or GEE-yuh-TEEN, but whether it should be pronounced with a stress on the third syllable (GIL-uh-TEEN) or on the first.
Since, for several decades, stressing of the word's first syllable has held sway over stressing of the third, one question remains: is it the long-established GIL-uh-TEEN or the recently popular GEE-yuh-TEEN which should be said? Pronunciation pronunciator Charles Harrington Elster, in his Big Book of Beastly Mispronunciations, calls GEE-yuh-TEEN "a pseudo-French affectation". He continues: "Careful speakers are expected to help hold the line on this one—on pain of beheading!"
Of course, it isn't crucial to heed Elster's highly biased, prescriptive advice.
External website
- The Guillotine Headquarters with a gallery, history, name list, and quiz.
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The River Axe is a river in Devon, in the south of England. It rises north of Axminster and joins the English Channel at Axmouth near Seaton.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "River Axe."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
AXE | English | Application eXecution Environment | Computer - Computer - (AWT, API, Java) |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonym: AxeSynonym: ax (v). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Axe |
| English words defined with "axe": fasces ♦ hew, hew out. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "axe": BIBLE ♦ Daedalos, Damiens' Bed of Steel, deer foot, double-bladed axe ♦ fawn foot ♦ HATCHET, HEAD ♦ -head ♦ laying in, Lictors ♦ Matthias ♦ pulaski tool ♦ revolving bookcase, rounding up ♦ setting up, single-bitted axe, single-bladed axe ♦ WEDGER, MACHINE. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "axe": Ashes. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Axe" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. French (axis, axle, center, direction, line, spindle). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Bring your pretty face to my axe. (The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers; writing credit: Frances Walsh) Get an axe. (Army of Darkness; writing credit: Sam Raimi and Ivan Raimi.) Computer, if you don't open that exit hatch pretty damn pronto, I shall go straight to your major data banks with a very large axe and give you a reprogramming you will never forget, capisco (The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy; writing credit: Douglas Adams; John Lloyd) You don't drop that axe I'll blast you to hell as quick as I would a white man. (Cahill U.S. Marshal; writing credit: Harry Julian Fink) Listen, pal, you'd be rude, too, if you saw your girl tied up, and a man with an axe in one hand and a bloody mess in the other (Color Me Blood Red; writing credit: Herschell Gordon Lewis) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Don't Axe Me (1958) Axe Me Another (1934) Trail of the Axe (1922) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Yard with mallet, axe, and clothesline. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | De axe, it clom' back on top er de woodpile an' fell off on t'er side. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Conservative Republican congressman, Jesse Helms, with bloodied axe and accompanied by four chimpanzees, knocks on door labeled "Public Broadcasting" just down the hall from a blood splattered door labeled "National Endowment of the Arts"] / Oliphant. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Proof for bank note vignette showing man with axe by fallen tree and U.S. coin by stump] / Rawdon, Wright, Hatch & Edson, New York. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Old resident of Winton, Minnesota, sharpening an axe. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Finishing tie with broad axe, Pie Town, New Mexico. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Battle Axe Shoe Co., Richmond, Va. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| "The axe" by Marcel Hol Commentary: "Give 'm the axe." | "Axe" by Ibon San Martin Commentary: "Axe nailed in a wood." |
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| Play | Caption |
 | Chopping a piece of wood with an axe. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Crown | Who stabs my name would stab my person too, did not the hangman's axe lie in the way? |
William Shakespeare | And where the offence is, let the great axe fall. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | All social questions set up their points of interrogation about this axe. |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | At the present day, and in this country, as I find by my own experience, a few implements, a knife, an axe, a spade, a wheelbarrow, etc. |
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Human Rights | Zimbabwe | The suspects reportedly broke into his home and tied him with wire before assaulting him with an axe. (references) |
Bosnia and Herzegovina | On November 16 in Pale, unknown assailants killed an elderly Bosniak with an axe; police had not arrested any suspects by year's end. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Paraguay | In October the Supreme Court suspended the eviction notice against members of the Yakye Axe (Enxet) indigenous group in the Chaco after the OAS's Inter-American Commission on Human Rights filed a petition on the group's behalf. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | HEAD-:MONEY:, n. A capitation tax, or poll-tax. In ancient times there lived a king Whose tax-collectors could not wring From all his subjects gold enough To make the royal way less rough. For pleasure's highway, like the dames Whose premises adjoin it, claims Perpetual repairing. So The tax-collectors in a row Appeared before the throne to pray Their master to devise some way To swell the revenue. "So great," Said they, "are the demands of state A tithe of all that we collect Will scarcely meet them. Pray reflect: How, if one-tenth we must resign, Can we exist on t'other nine?" The monarch asked them in reply: "Has it occurred to you to try The advantage of economy?" "It has," the spokesman said: "we sold All of our gray garrotes of gold; With plated-ware we now compress The necks of those whom we assess. Plain iron forceps we employ To mitigate the miser's joy Who hoards, with greed that never tires, That which your Majesty requires." Deep lines of thought were seen to plow Their way across the royal brow. "Your state is desperate, no question; Pray favor me with a suggestion." "O King of Men," the spokesman said, "If you'll impose upon each head A tax, the augmented revenue We'll cheerfully divide with you." As flashes of the sun illume The parted storm-cloud's sullen gloom, The king smiled grimly. "I decree That it be so -- and, not to be In generosity outdone, Declare you, each and every one, Exempted from the operation Of this new law of capitation. But lest the people censure me Because they're bound and you are free, 'Twere well some clever scheme were laid By you this poll-tax to evade. I'll leave you now while you confer With my most trusted minister." The monarch from the throne-room walked And straightway in among them stalked A silent man, with brow concealed, Bare-armed -- his gleaming axe revealed! G.J. |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Carol Channing | You bare your heart and soul and body to possible axe murderers, to hitmen, to crazy people, to somebody. You bear it and do it anyway. It's the only way. And I have done it since the fourth grade. |
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| "Axe" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 83.11% of the time. "Axe" is used about 680 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) | 83.11% | 565 | 11,124 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 9.1% | 62 | 42,755 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 3.82% | 26 | 68,323 |
| Noun (proper) | 3.38% | 23 | 72,767 |
| Noun (common) | 0.59% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 680 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "axe" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Axe | Last name | 300 | 29,352 |
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Expressions using "axe": axe handle ♦ axe head ♦ bad Axe ♦ battle axe ♦ common axe ♦ cut down with an axe ♦ Dayton axe ♦ executioner's axe ♦ fire axe ♦ fireman's axe ♦ flint axe ♦ get the axe ♦ give the axe ♦ Grub axe ♦ have an axe to grind ♦ he has an axe to grind ♦ ice axe ♦ Lochaber axe ♦ pole axe ♦ slate axe ♦ small axe ♦ the axe ♦ Western axe. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "axe": axe-adzes, axe-blade, axe-blow, axe-edge, axe-god, axe-grinding, axe-hammers, axe-handle, axe-handles, axe-head, axe-hero, axe-like, axe-man, axe-murderer, axe-shaped, axe-sling, axe-stone, axe-swinging, axe-trashing, axe-wielder, axe-wielding. | |
Ending with "axe": double-axe, ice-axe, pick-axe. | |
Containing "axe": double-axe-hand. | |
| 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 | Expression | Frequency per Day |
axe bahia | 770 | axe download golden | 27 |
axe | 705 | ice axe | 26 |
golden axe | 174 | axe bodyspray | 26 |
adams.com axe | 114 | axe bahia beso boca en la | 24 |
axe body spray | 110 | axe bahia de fotos | 24 |
axe deodorant | 110 | kick axe | 24 |
bad axe michigan | 108 | camp axe | 23 |
axe bahia de video | 89 | axe bahia mp3 | 22 |
battle axe | 72 | axe cologne | 21 |
axe effect | 67 | axe bahia video | 21 |
so i married an axe murderer | 55 | the axe man | 21 |
axe bahia lyrics | 49 | axe rio | 21 |
adam axe | 46 | attack axe b b b b b b cds cometh death metal | 19 |
lillian axe | 45 | axe blonde | 19 |
axe music | 45 | axe bahia fotos | 18 |
axe bahia de mp3 musica | 38 | axe commercial | 17 |
game axe | 32 | axe despair | 17 |
axe golden rom | 31 | ftp axe | 17 |
axe deoderant | 30 | axe spray | 16 |
battle axe record | 27 | throwing axe | 16 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "axe"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | shkurtoj (abbreviate, abridge, ax, buck, clip, compress, condense, curtail, cut, cut back, cut down, detruncate, dock, epitomize, pare, poll, prune, razee, retrench, shorten, truncate, undercut, whittle down), shkurtim fondesh (ax), sëpatë (ax), pres me sëpatë (ax). (various references) | |
Arabic | فلق (ax, chap, cleavage, fission, segment, split), قطع (amputate, amputation, ax, break, cease, cessation, chop off, chopping off, cross, crossing, cut, cut across, cut away, cut down, cut off, cut out, cutoff, cutting off, disconnect, discontinuance, discontinue, divide, dividing, end, exchange, fell, felling, forbid, halt, hew, hinder from, interrupt, intersect, lop, prevent from, scission, section, segment, segmentation, separate, sever, severance, slit, split, stop, sunder, suspend, suspension, tear, terminate, traverse), خفض (ax, bear, bring down, cut, debase, deplete, depreciation, depress, dropping, lessen, lower, lowering, mark down, minimize, pull down, put down, rebate, recline, retrench, scale down, shorten, sink, slake, slam, slash, step down, stitch down, subdue, turn down, whittle down), الفأس (ax), أزال (abstract, assuage, ax, bulldoze, clear, clear away, declassify, dismantle, dispel, eliminate, enucleate, eviscerate, excise, obliterate, preclude, put aside, relieve, remove, rest, retrench, rid, rub, rub out, settle, slip, smooth, stave off, suppress, take away), بلطة (ax). (various references) | |
Basque | haizkora (hatchet). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | секира (ax, cleaver, pole-ax, sax), служа си с брадва (ax), топор (ax), окастряне (ax, paring, stripping, trimming), намаляване (abatement, abridgement, attenuation, ax, comminution, contraction, decrement, deduction, degression, depletion, diminution, dipping, impairment, lessening, reduction, relaxation, shrinkage, wane), брадва (ax). (various references) | |
Chinese | 轴 (Ax, Axes, Axis, mandrel, mandril), 鈇 , 斧子 (hatchet). (various references) | |
Czech | sekera (ax). (various references) | |
Danish | økse. (various references) | |
Dutch | hakbijl, hakbýl, bijl, býl. (various references) | |
Esperanto | hakilo. (various references) | |
Finnish | kirves (ax). (various references) | |
French | hache. (various references) | |
German | beil (ax, cleaver, hatchet), axt (ax). (various references) | |
Greek | τσεκούρι (ax). (various references) | |
Hebrew | קרדום (adze, hatchet), כילף (hatchet), גרזן (hack, hatchet). (various references) | |
Hungarian | fejsze (adze, ax, cleaver, hatchet), balta (ax). (various references) | |
Icelandic | öxi. (various references) | |
Indonesian | kapak. (various references) | |
Irish | tua. (various references) | |
Italian | scure (ax), ascia (adze, ax, hatchet). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 薪割り (hatchet, wood-chopping), 劉 (kill), 斧鉞 , 斧斤 , 斧 (hatchet), アダムスストークス症候群 (accelerando, achievement test, Adams-Stokes syndrome, adult, adult education, adult shop, adult video, assembly, at, at bat, at home, attenuator, sex shop, upper, uppercut, upper-middle). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | おの (hatchet), まきわり (hatchet, wood-chopping), ふきん (dish cloth, environs, neighborhood, neighbourhood, tea-towel, vicinity), ふえつ, りゅう (dragon, kill, manner of, method of, promoted rook, styleof), アックス . (various references) | |
Korean | 도끼 (Ax, Axes). (various references) | |
Manx | teigh (chopper, hatchet), giarrey (abbreviate, abridge, abridging, beat out, bob the tail; severance, bob; severance, carve, castrate, cleave, clip, clip as words; slicing, clip; slicing, condensation, condense, condensing, crop, crop as tail, curtail, curtailment, cut, cut away, cut back, cut short, cut up, disconnect, disconnection, dissect, erupt, eruption, flux, gash, hack, hew, incise, incision, infliction, intersect, intersection, lance, levy, lop, mark out, nicking, prune, pruning, puncture, reaping, scission, section, sever, shear, sink, slash, slit, snip, truncate). (various references) | |
Norwegian | øks. (various references) | |
Occitan | destral (hatchet). (various references) | |
Papiamen | hacha. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | axeay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | machado (ax). (various references) | |
Romanian | topor (ax, cleaver, hatchet), tãia (amputate, ax, butcher, cancel, carve, carve out, castrate, chop, clap, cleave, clip, crop, cross, Curdle, cut, cut on the bias, Dent, dissect, engrave, excise, exscind, fell, flench, foul, grave, hew, incise, intercept, kill, measure off, notch, notch off, pare, plough, prune, quarter, resect, rip, Rive, separate, sever, shear, shorten, shut the works down, slaughter, slay, slice, snick, split, Square, stop, strike out, switch off), secure (ax, halberd, Halbert, hatchet), reduce (abate, abridge, ax, bear down, bring, cancel out, contract, curtail, cut, decrease, derogate, detract, diminish, discount, draw in, drop, extenuate, fine down, knock down, knock off, lessen, lower, make good, narrow down, pare down, prune, recover, reduce, retrench, slacken, stint, stop, unbend, weaken), baltag (ax, halberd, hatchet). (various references) | |
Russian | топор (ax, hatchet, zax). (various references) | |
Scottish | tuagh (hatchet). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | sekira (ax, hatchet), seći sekirom (ax). (various references) | |
Spanish | hacha (ax, chopper, dab, hack, hatchet, sax, torch). (various references) | |
Sranan | aksi (ask, question), beyri. (various references) | |
Swahili | shoka. (various references) | |
Swedish | yxa (ax, chop, cut, hack, hatchet). (various references) | |
Tagalog | palakól. (various references) | |
Thai | ฟันหรือตัดด้วยขวาน (ax), กีต้าร์, ขวาน (ax). (various references) | |
Turkish | balta (ax, bill, broad-ax, chopper, cleaver, hatchet). (various references) | |
Turkmen | palta. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | урізувати (ax, castrate, curtail, lop away, lop off, pare, scant, scrimp, shorten, truncate), урізування (ax, curtailment, shortening), скорочувати (abate, abbreviate, abridge, ax, blue pencil, boil down, cancel, castrate, curtail, cut, lop away, lop off, prune, retrench, shorten, shrink), скорочення (abatement, abbreviation, abridgement, abridgment, ax, cancellation, castration, contraction, curtailment, cutback, pruning, retraction, retrenchment), сокира ката (ax), сокира (ax, hatchet), колун (ax, chopper, cleaver), відтинання голови (ax, beheading, decapitation, decollation), зменшувати (abate, allay, alleviate, ax, belittle, cut back, decrease, detract, diminish, dwindle, extenuate, lessen, minify, palliate, relax, slacken, turn down, whittle away), зменшення (abatement, attenuation, ax, cutback, cutting, decline, decrease, decrement, degression, depression, diminution, narrowing, wane), працювати сокирою (ax). (various references) | |
Welsh | bwyell. (various references) | |
Yucatec | baat. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | gin. (various references) |
| Akkadian | 3000 BCE-Modern | hassinu. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | securis. (various references) |
| Old French | 900-1400 | hache. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Luke Chapter 3, Verse 9 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Hdh de kai h axinh proV thn rizan twn dendrwn keitai pan oun dendron mh poioun karpon kalon ekkoptetai kai eiV pur balletai |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Iam enim securis ad radicem arborum posita est omnis ergo arbor non faciens fructum exciditur et in ignem mittitur |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | Nu is seo æx asett. to ðæs treowes wyrtruman: witodlice ælc treow þe ne bryncð godne wæsm. bið forcorfen and on fyr aworpen; |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And now an axe is sett to the roote of the tree; and therfor euery tre that makith no good fruyt, schal be kit doun, and schal be cast in to the fier. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | Now also ys the axe leyd vnto the rote of the trees: so yt every tree which bringeth not forth good frute shalbe hewe doune and caste in to ye fyre. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: every tree therefore which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And now also the ax is laid to the root of the trees: every tree therefore which bringeth not forth good fruit, is hewn down, and cast into the fire. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And even now the axe is put to the root of the trees; and every tree which does not have good fruit will be cut down and put into the fire. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Luke Chapter 3, Verse 9 |
| Cebuano | Ug bisan gani karon, ang wasay gikataon na diha sa gamut sa mga kahoy; busa ang tanang kahoy nga wala mamungag mga maayong bunga pagaputlon ug igasalibay ngadto sa kalayo." |
| Croatian | Veæ je sjekira položena na korijen stablima: svako dakle stablo koje ne donosi dobra roda sijeèe se i u oganj baca." |
| Danish | Men Øksen ligger også allerede ved Roden af Træerne; så bliver da hvert Træ, som ikke bærer god Frugt, omhugget og kastet i Ilden." |
| Dutch | En de bijl ligt ook alrede aan den wortel der bomen; alle boom dan, die geen goede vrucht voortbrengt, wordt uitgehouwen, en in het vuur geworpen. |
| Finnish | Jo on myös kirves pantu puitten juurelle; jokainen puu, joka ei tee hyvää hedelmää, siis hakataan pois ja heitetään tuleen." |
| French | Déjà même la cognée est mise à la racine des arbres: tout arbre donc qui ne produit pas de bons fruits sera coupé et jeté au feu. |
| German | Es ist schon die Axt den Bäumen an die Wurzel gelegt; welcher Baum nicht gute Frucht bringt, wird abgehauen und in das Feuer geworfen. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Kapak sudah siap untuk menebang pohon sampai ke akar-akarnya. Setiap pohon yang tidak menghasilkan buah yang baik akan ditebang dan dibuang ke dalam api." |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Sekarangpun sudah sedia kapak di akar pohon kayu; maka tiap-tiap pohon kayu yang tiada berbuah yang baik, ia itu akan ditebang dan dibuang ke dalam api." |
| Italian | Anzi, la scure è gia posta alla radice degli alberi; ogni albero che non porta buon frutto, sarà tagliato e buttato nel fuoco». |
| Korean | 이 미 도 끼 가 나 무 뿌 리 에 놓 였 으 니 좋 은 열 매 맺 지 아 니 하 는 나 무 마 다 찍 혀 불 에 던 지 우 리 라' |
| Latvian | Jau cirvis pielikts pie koku saknçm. Katrs koks, kas nenes labus augïus, tiks nocirsts un ugunî iemests. |
| Manx Gaelic | As nish hannah ta'n teigh er ny choyrt gys fraue ny biljyn: shen-y-fa ta dy chooilley villey nagh vel gymmyrkey mess mie, dy ve giarit sheese as tilgit ayns yn aile. |
| Maori | Na inaianei ano kei te pa te toki ki te pakiaka o nga rakau: ki te kahore tetahi rakau e hua i te hua pai, ka tuaina, ka maka ki te ahi. |
| Norwegian | Øksen ligger også allerede ved roten av trærne; derfor blir hvert tre som ikke bærer god frukt, hugget ned og kastet på ilden. |
| Portuguese | Também já está posto o machado à raiz das árvores; toda árvore, pois, que não produz bom fruto, é cortada e lançada no fogo. |
| Rumanian | Securea a wi fost knfiptq la rqdqcina pomilor: deci, orice pom care nu face roadq bunq, este tqiat wi aruncat kn foc.`` |
| Russian | хЦЕ Й УЕЛЙТБ РТЙ ЛПТОЕ ДЕТЕЧ МЕЦЙФ: ЧУСЛПЕ ДЕТЕЧП, ОЕ РТЙОПУСЭЕЕ ДПВТПЗП РМПДБ, УТХВБАФ Й ВТПУБАФ Ч ПЗПОШ. |
| Shuar | Aneartarum. Numi ajaktinian Kampuwárin jacha atuttsamuiti. Numi pénker nereatsna nuka ajakar jinium apeamu ártatui" Tímiayi. |
| Spanish | También el hacha ya está puesta a la raíz de los árboles. Por lo tanto, todo árbol que no da buen fruto es cortado y echado al fuego. |
| Swahili | Lakini, sasa hivi shoka limewekwa tayari kukata mizizi ya miti. Kila mti usiozaa matunda mazuri utakatwa na kutupwa motoni." |
| Swedish | Redan är också yxan satt till roten på träden; så bliver då vart träd som icke bär god frukt avhugget och kastat på elden. |
| Uma | Neo' rata-mi pehuku' Alata'ala! Pehuku' -na hewa pati to rodo ami' -mi hi tawu kaju. Butu ngkaju-na to uma lompe' wua' -na, bate ratoki pai' ratene' hi rala apu." |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "axe": axed, axel, axels, axeman, axemen, axenic, axenically, axes. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "axe": broadaxe, pickaxe, poleaxe. (additional references) | |
Words containing "axe": addaxes, anaphylaxes, anticlimaxes, banjaxed, banjaxes, beeswaxes, betaxed, boraxes, broadaxes, carapaxes, cephalothoraxes, chemoprophylaxes, chemotaxes, climaxed, climaxes, coaxed, coaxer, coaxers, coaxes, curtalaxes, dewaxed, dewaxes, disclimaxes, earwaxes, epistaxes, faxed, faxes, flaxen, flaxes, galaxes, geotaxes, hapaxes, hoaxed, hoaxer, hoaxers, hoaxes, hydrothoraxes, hypotaxes, hyraxes, laxer, laxest, maxes, mesothoraxes, metathoraxes, minimaxes, morphallaxes, nontaxes, overtaxed, overtaxes, packwaxes, paclitaxel. (additional references) | |
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"Axe" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aae, aaxe, adxe, ae, Aej, aex, aexe, afe, ahe, aje, ajx, Aksu, alxe, Alxi, Aoe, arxe, ase, aue, auxe, avx, axa, axaf, axd, axea, axee, Axeen, axem, Axen, axeo, axep, axer, axet, axex, axez, axh, axi, axic, axie, axien, axij, axim, axl, axn, axo, axor, axs, axt, axu, axum, axy, aza, aze, azef, Azem, azoe, cxe, cxxi, cxxix, dxe, exeq, exu, ixa, Ixe, ixx, jaxe, kaxe, mxe, naxe, oex, oxe, oxoe, rxe, ux, vaxe, xa, xae, xef, Xeg. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "axe" (pronounced a"ks) |
| 3 | a" k s | antitax, attacks, ax, backs, blacks, cracks, fax, flax, hacks, jacks, knacks, lacks, lax, macks, Macs, Max, packs, pacs, Pax, plaques, pretax, quacks, racks, rax, relax, sacks, sacs, sax, shacks, slacks, smacks, snacks, stacks, tacks, tax, tracks, wacks, wax, whacks. |
| 2 | -k s | academics, aches, acoustics, acrobatics, acrylics, aerobatics, aerobics, aerodynamics, aeronautics, aesthetics, affix, aftershocks, aftertax, airstrikes, alcoholics, analgesics, analytics, anesthetics, annex, anorexics, anthrax, antibiotics, antics, antiques, apex, apparatchiks, appendix, arcs, artichokes, artworks, asks, asthmatics, astronautics, astrophysics, athletics, atmospherics, attics, automatics, avionics, backaches, backpacks, bakes, balks, ballistics, ballparks, banks, barks, barracks, basics, basks, basques, batiks, beatniks, becks, benchmarks, bespeaks, bikes, bioethics, biologics, biophysics, biotechs, Birks, birthmarks, bishoprics, blanks, blinks, blocks, blocs, blokes, books, boombox, boondocks, borax, bottlenecks, boutiques, box, brakes, breadbox, breaks, bricks, brinks, Brooks, broomsticks, Bucks, bullocks, bunks, Burkes, buttocks, buybacks, cakes, calisthenics, Calix, calyx, candlesticks, casks, catholics, ceramics, cervix, chalks, characteristics, charismatics, checkbooks, checks, cheeks, chicks, chinks, chinooks, chokes, chopsticks, chunks, Cineplex, civics, classics, clerics, clerks, clicks, climax, clinics, cliques, clocks, clucks, clunks, coax, cokes, comebacks, comics, complex, conics, convex, cookbooks, cooks, corks, cornstalks, cortex, cosmetics, cossacks, counterattacks, Cox, cranks, creeks, Criminalistics, critics, critiques, crooks, crucifix, crux, cryogenics, cupcakes, cutbacks, cynics, damasks. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-x" | |
-1 letter: ae, ax, ex. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-x" | |
+1 letter: apex, axed, axel, axes, axle, eaux, exam. | |
+2 letters: annex, axels, axile, axite, axled, axles, axmen, axone, beaux, carex, coxae, dewax, exact, exalt, exams, expat, extra, faxed, faxes, hexad, latex, laxer, maxes, paxes, raxed, raxes, relax, retax, rewax, saxes, taxed, taxer, taxes, texas, waxed, waxen, waxer, waxes, xenia, zaxes. | |
+3 letters: adieux, adnexa, alexia, alexin, annexe, apexes, auspex, axeman, axemen, axenic, axised, axises, axites, axlike, axones, axseed, calxes, caudex, coaxed, coaxer, coaxes, earwax, eutaxy, exacta, exacts, exalts, examen, exarch, exedra, exhale, expand, expats, extant, extras, exuvia, fixate, flaxen, flaxes, hexade, hexads, hexane, hoaxed, hoaxer, hoaxes, laxest, lexica, luxate, maxixe, plexal, poleax, praxes, pretax, sextan, sexual, taxeme, taxers, taxied, taxies, taxite, taxmen, teabox, waxers, waxier, xenial, xenias. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Images: Digital Art | 9. Sounds 10. Quotations: Familiar 11. Quotations: Fiction 12. Quotations: Non-fiction | 13. Quotations: Spoken 14. Usage Frequency 15. Names: Frequency 16. Expressions | 17. Expressions: Internet 18. Translations: Modern 19. Translations: Ancient 20. Bible Trace | 21. Abbreviations 22. Acronyms 23. Derivations 24. Rhymes | 25. Anagrams 26. Bibliography |
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