axe

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
发音 ăks

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A tool for felling trees or chopping wood etc. consisting of a heavy head flattened to a blade on one side, and a handle attached to it.
  2. The axle of a wheel. archaic
  3. An ancient weapon consisting of a head that has one or two blades and a long handle.
  4. A dismissal or rejection. informal
    — His girlfriend/boss/schoolmaster gave him the axe.
  5. A drastic reduction or cutback. figuratively
    — the Beeching Axe
  6. A gigging musician's particular instrument, especially a guitar in rock music or a saxophone in jazz. slang
  7. A position, interest, or reason in buying and selling stock, often with ulterior motives.
    — A financial dealer has an axe in a stock that his buyers don't know about, giving him an advantage in making the most profit.
动词 v.
  1. To fell or chop with an axe. transitive
  2. To furnish with an axle.
  3. Alternative form of ask. alt-of,alternative,dialectal,obsolete
    — Axe and it ſhalbe geven you. Seke and ye ſhall fynd / Knocke and it ſhalbe opened vnto you.
  4. To lay off, terminate or drastically reduce, especially in a rough or ruthless manner; to cancel. figuratively,transitive
    — The government announced its plans to axe public spending.

词形变化

axes plural ax alternative,US axes present,singular,third-person axing participle,present axeing participle,present axed participle,past axed past ax alternative,US axes plural ax alternative,US axes present,singular,third-person axing participle,present axed participle,past axed past ax alternative,US axes present,singular,third-person axing participle,present axed participle,past axed past

词汇关系

下位词
battle axe battleaxe Beeching Axe crash axe Dane axe Danish axe fire axe hatchet Jeddart axe Lochaber axe throwing-axe tomahawk wagoner's axe
衍生词
axeblade axe bombing Axe Creek axe head axe kick axeless axelike axeman axemanship axe murder axe-murder axe-murderer axe murderer axe throwing axe to grind axewoman axe wound Bad Axe battle-axe boarding axe break-axe broadaxe curtal-axe curt-axe curtle-axe dagger-axe give the axe greataxe Hagen axe hand axe have an axe to grind ice axe ice-axe mad as a meat axe man with the axe meat axe moot-axe pick-axe pole-axe poleaxe take an axe to throwing axe tomax
相关词
adze hatchet twibill

词源

词源 1
From Middle English ax, axe, ex, from Old English æx (“axe”), from Proto-West Germanic *akusi (“axe”), from Proto-Germanic *akwisī (“axe”), probably from a Proto-Indo-European *h₂egʷsih₂ (“axe”), from *h₂eḱ- (“sharp, pointed”). Cognate with Scots aix (“axe”), Dutch aks (“axe”), German Axt (“axe”), Danish økse (“axe”), Faroese, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk øks (“axe”), Icelandic öxi (“axe”), Swedish yxa (“axe”), Latin ascia (“axe, mason's trowel”).
词源 2
Derived from French axe, from Latin axis.
词源 3
From Old English axian (“ask”); see ax for more.
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