Dictionary Definition
ax n : an edge tool with a heavy bladed head
mounted across a handle [syn: axe]
Verb
1 chop or split with an ax; "axe wood" [syn:
axe]
2 terminate; "The NSF axed the research program
and stopped funding it" [syn: axe] [also: axes (pl)]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Etymology 1
See axe.Pronunciation
- , /æks/, /
Extensive Definition
AX or Ax may stand
for:
AX
- Accumulator eXtended (x86 registers in computing)
- Agility Excellent (AKC)
- Åland Islands (2-letter ISO country code)
- Alpha Chi Omega
- American Express
- Amman Exchange
- Anime Expo
- Architecture eXtended (Japanese computing architecture)
- Armani Exchange
- Atlantic Coast Line Railroad
- Autocross
- Automatic transmission
- Citroën AX
- F-Zero AX (video game)
- AX The Demon (furry artist and entrepreneur)
- Trans State Airlines IATA code
Ax
- axe, tool and weapon
- Ax, a 87th Precinct story written in 1964 by Ed McBain (Evan Hunter)
- Ax, a WWF World Tag-Team Champion professional wrestler
- Aximili-Esgarrouth-Isthill's nickname, a fictional Animorphs character Ax
- Emanuel Ax, a concert pianist
- James Ax, a mathematician
- A special forces group under the command of Cardinal Catherina in Trinity Blood
- A euphemism for layoffs.
- Ismail ax, a note written in red ink found on the left arm of Cho Seung-hui at the time of the Virginia Tech Massacre.
- The Ax (Galaxy Rangers Episode)
See also
- Axe (disambiguation)
- .ax (the reserved ccTLD for the Åland Islands).
ax in German: AX
ax in Esperanto:
Ax
ax in French: AX
ax in Korean: AX
ax in Indonesian:
AX
ax in Italian:
AX
ax in Japanese: AX
(曖昧さ回避)
ax in Norwegian:
AX
ax in Polish: AX
ax in Kölsch: AX (Watt ėßß
datt?)
ax in Russian: Ах
(значения)
ax in Slovenian:
AX
ax in Finnish:
Ax
ax in Swedish:
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Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
amputate, battle-ax, beheading, bisect, blade, block, boot out, bounce, burning, butcher, can, capital punishment, carve, cashier, cashiering, chop, cleave, cold steel, conge, cross, crucifixion, cut, cut away, cut in two, cut off,
cutlery, cutter, dagger, death chair, death
chamber, decapitation, decollation, defenestration, deposal, dichotomize, discharge, disemployment, dismissal, displacing, dissever, drop, drumming out, edge tools,
electric chair, electrocution, excise, execution, fire, firing, fissure, forced separation,
furloughing,
fusillade, gallows, gallows-tree, garrote, gas chamber, gash, gassing, gibbet, guillotine, hack, halberd, halter, halve, hanging, hatchet, hemlock, hemp, hempen collar, hew, hot seat, incise, jigsaw, judicial murder, kick
out, knife, lance, lapidation, layoff, lethal chamber, maiden, naked steel, necktie
party, noose, pare, pigsticker, pink slip,
point, poisoning, poleax, prune, puncturer, removal, rend, retirement, rive, rope, sack, saw, scaffold, scissor, sever, sharpener, shooting, slash, slice, slit, snip, split, stake, steel, stoning, strangling, strangulation, sunder, surplusing, suspension, sword, tear, terminate, the ax, the block,
the boot, the bounce, the chair, the gallows, the gas chamber, the
gate, the guillotine, the hot seat, the rope, the sack, ticket, toad sticker, tomahawk, tree, walking papers, whittle