English dictionary: words starting with ax

noun

Variant spelling of axe.

verb

Non-standard form of ask.

Usage examples:

Don't ax this question again

noun

A tool used for chopping wood, typically of iron with a steel edge and wooden handle.

Usage examples:

I started swinging the axe at the lumps of driftwood

verb

End, cancel, or dismiss suddenly and ruthlessly.

Usage examples:

The company is axing 125 jobs

verb

Non-standard form of ask.

Usage examples:

Don't ax this question again

noun

A tool used for chopping wood, typically of iron with a steel edge and wooden handle.

Usage examples:

I started swinging the axe at the lumps of driftwood

noun

A jump in skating from the forward outside edge of one skate to the backward outside edge of the other, with one (or more) and a half turns in the air.

Usage examples:

I did some triple jumps, everything but the lutz and the axel.

verb

Non-standard form of ask.

Usage examples:

Don't ax this question again

noun

A tool used for chopping wood, typically of iron with a steel edge and wooden handle.

Usage examples:

I started swinging the axe at the lumps of driftwood

adjective

Relating to or forming an axis.

Usage examples:

The main axial road

noun

The upper angle between a leaf stalk or branch and the stem or trunk from which it is growing.

Usage examples:

There are two or three flowers in the axils of the upper leaves.

noun

An armpit, or the corresponding part in a bird or other animal.

Usage examples:

The t2 nerve root controls the palms on either side and the t4 nerve root controls the axilla and a…

noun

An armpit, or the corresponding part in a bird or other animal.

Usage examples:

The t2 nerve root controls the palms on either side and the t4 nerve root controls the axilla and a…

Plural of axilla specialized

noun

The upper angle between a leaf stalk or branch and the stem or trunk from which it is growing.

Usage examples:

There are two or three flowers in the axils of the upper leaves.

verb

Non-standard form of ask.

Usage examples:

Don't ax this question again

noun

A tool used for chopping wood, typically of iron with a steel edge and wooden handle.

Usage examples:

I started swinging the axe at the lumps of driftwood

noun

A statement or proposition which is regarded as being established, accepted, or self-evidently true.

Usage examples:

The axiom that sport builds character

adjective

Self-evident or unquestionable.

Usage examples:

It is axiomatic that dividends have to be financed

adverb

In a way that is obviously true and therefore does not need to be proved

Usage examples:

You are, axiomatically, unique., being part of a stepfamily doesn't axiomatically mean there are go…

noun

A statement or proposition which is regarded as being established, accepted, or self-evidently true.

Usage examples:

The axiom that sport builds character

noun

A hypothetical subatomic particle postulated to account for the rarity of processes which break charge–parity symmetry.

Usage examples:

Or another candidate is an even more exotic particle called the axion.

noun

An imaginary line about which a body rotates.

Usage examples:

The earth revolves on its axis once every 24 hours

adjective

Symmetrical about an axis.

Usage examples:

The cell interior was discretized in space with 4/1 quadrilateral axisymmetric mixed (u/p) solid el…

noun

A rod or spindle (either fixed or rotating) passing through the centre of a wheel or group of wheels.

Usage examples:

The exhaust pipe corrodes around the bend which goes over the rear axle on motor cars

noun

A rod or spindle (either fixed or rotating) passing through the centre of a wheel or group of wheels.

Usage examples:

The exhaust pipe corrodes around the bend which goes over the rear axle on motor cars

noun

A mexican salamander that in natural conditions retains its aquatic larval form throughout life but is able to breed.

Usage examples:

A number of salamanders, such as the north american ‘mudpuppy’ and the mexican axolotl, develop leg…

noun

The long threadlike part of a nerve cell along which impulses are conducted from the cell body to other cells.

Usage examples:

In contrast to the innervation of the proximal esophagus, axons from vagal neurons synapse within g…

adjective

Relating to an axon or axons (= thread-like structures attached to a nerve cell that send out signals away from the cell)

Usage examples:

These proteins regulate axonal growth during the development of the central nervous system., the gr…

adjective

Using or denoting an orthographic projection of an object, such as a building, on a plane inclined to each of the three principal axes of the object; three-dimensional but without perspective.

Usage examples:

But while their drawings could be visionary, they were graphically quite conventional perspective o…

noun

The long threadlike part of a nerve cell along which impulses are conducted from the cell body to other cells.

Usage examples:

In contrast to the innervation of the proximal esophagus, axons from vagal neurons synapse within g…