| 单词 | ax |
| 释义 | ax (once / 793 pages) nv An ax is a sharp tool for cutting wood. When you split logs, you hold the handle, swing the ax into the air, and let the blade fall on the wood. Most axes have a long wooden handle connected to a blade made of sharpened steel. An ax is a useful tool to own if you have a wood stove or are building a campfire. You can also spell the word with an e at the end: axe. As a verb, to ax means to fire someone from a job: "He was late so many times that I finally had to ax him." WORD FAMILYax: axes USAGE EXAMPLESIn July it was a truck at a Bastille Day fireworks show, and a few days after that an ax on a German train. Wall Street Journal(Dec 20, 2016) Earlier that month, an Afghan asylum seeker armed with an ax injured four people on a German commuter train in the Bavarian city of Würzburg. Washington Post(Dec 19, 2016) A fireman’s ax was also stolen, the Augusta newspaper reported. Washington Times(Dec 11, 2016) 1n an edge tool with a heavy bladed head mounted across a handle Syn|Hypo|Hyper axe broadax, broadaxe a large ax with a broad cutting blade Dayton ax, Dayton axe, common ax, common axean ax with a long handle and a head that has one cutting edge and one blunt side Western ax, Western axe, double-bitted ax, double-bitted axean ax that has cutting edges on both sides of the head fireman's ax, fireman's axean ax that has a long handle and a head with one cutting edge and a point on the other side hatcheta small ax with a short handle used with one hand (usually to chop wood) ice ax, ice axe, pioletan ax used by mountain climbers for cutting footholds in ice poleax, poleaxean ax used to slaughter cattle; has a hammer opposite the blade battle-ax, battle-axea broadax used as a weapon broad hatcheta short-handled hatchet with a broad blade opposite a hammerhead claw hatcheta hatchet that has a cleft for pulling nails half hatcheta hatchet with a broad blade on one end and a hammer head of the other edge tool any cutting tool with a sharp cutting edge (as a chisel or knife or plane or gouge) 2v chop or split with an ax Syn|Hyper axe chop, hack cut with a hacking tool 3v terminate The NSF axed the research program and stopped funding it Syn|Hyper axe end, terminate bring to an end or halt |
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