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Definition: Ice Axe |
Ice AxeNoun1. An ax used by mountain climbers for cutting footholds in ice. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: Ice AxeSynonyms: ice ax (n), piolet (n). (additional references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The ice axe is not only used as an aid to climbing but also as a self rescue tool to stop an uncontrolled glissade.
Many backpacks designed with mountaineering tasks in mind will include ice axe loops for securing the axe to the pack when it is not needed.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Ice axe."
| 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 |
ice axe | 26 |
black diamond ice axe | 6 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "ice axe"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | akullthyese (anti-icer, ice breaker, iceboat). (various references) | |
Arabic | معول الثلج (icepick). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | пикел (ice pick, pickax, piolet). (various references) | |
Czech | cepín. (various references) | |
French | piolet. (various references) | |
German | eispickel (ice pick, pick). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מכוש קרח (ice pick). (various references) | |
Hungarian | jégcsákány (ice pick, icepick). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | "ストン輸送 (period, periodic, PHS portable phone, piccolo, pick, picking, pickoff play, pickup service, pilaf, pile, Pilgrim Fathers, pill, pilling, pipette, piranha, pit, pit stop, pitch, pitcher, pitcher's mound, pitching, pitching machine, pitchout, Pithecanthropus erectus, pivot, pizza, pizzicato, Pulitzer, pure, pure malt, puree, purist, Puritan, pyramid, pyramid selling, pyrine, shuttle, splashing sound, stilt). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | "ッケル . (various references) | |
Manx | speih rio. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | iceay axeay.(various references) | |
Russian | ледоруб. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | planinarski pijuk. (various references) | |
Spanish | piqueta (ice pick, Mattock, pick, pickax, pickaxe, piolet). (various references) | |
Swedish | isyxa, ispik, isbill. (various references) | |
Turkish | dağcı buz baltası. (various references) | |
Ukranian | кригоруб. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-i-x" | |
-2 letters: exec. | |
-3 letters: ace, axe, cee, ice. | |
-4 letters: ae, ai, ax, ex, xi. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-i-x" | |
+3 letters: cachexies, exarchies, excisable, exciseman, excitable, exclaimed, exclaimer, excoriate, explicate, exsiccate, extricate. | |
+4 letters: cephalexin, detoxicate, epicalyxes, exactitude, excitative, exclaimers, excogitate, excoriated, excoriates, excruciate, execrating, execration, execrative, exegetical, explicable, explicated, explicates, exsiccated, exsiccates, extractive, extricable, extricated, extricates, hexarchies, lexicalize. | |
+5 letters: cataplexies, cephalexins, detoxicated, detoxicates, exactitudes, exceptional, excogitated, excogitates, excruciated, excruciates, execrations, executorial, exercisable, exorbitance, expectation, expectative, explicative, extractives, exultancies, hexadecimal, inexactness, inexcusable, lexicalized, lexicalizes, stereotaxic, unexcitable. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)49 63 65 41 78 65 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001001 01100011 01100101 00100000 01000001 01111000 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)I c e   A x e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0049 0063 0065 0041 0078 0065 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4369712359071 |
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