ax

«ax» in Mova's school dictionary: a tool with a heavy metal blade on a long handle, used… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (an ax, axes); verb (ax, axes, axed, axing)

meaning for a pupil

1) An ax is a tool with a heavy metal blade on a long handle, used for chopping wood. tree →

2) (informal) To ax something is to cancel it or cut it; to ax a worker is to fire them. tree →

3) In some old or dialect English, "ax" is another spelling of "ask". tree →

sense in the lessons

«Ax» is the American spelling; British, Irish, Canadian, Australian and NZ English usually write «axe». In history, Vikings fought with battle-axes. In news, «the show was axed» means cancelled. Safety: axes are very sharp and only for trained adults.

examples

• The lumberjack swung his ax at the tree. tree →
• George Washington's story tells of a cherry tree and an ax. tree →
• The TV show was axed after one season. tree →
• Dad chopped firewood with an ax. tree →
• The firefighter broke down the door with an ax. tree →
• Hundreds of jobs were axed at the factory. tree →

note

US spelling «ax»; elsewhere «axe». Plural: axes (pronounced like the plural of «axis», but «axes» of a graph is a different word). Past: axed.

In the corpora

• And he shall set his battering engines against thy walls, and with his axes he shall break down thy towers.
• It seemed as when men wield upwards axes in a thicket of trees.
• And so did he in the cities of Manasseh and Ephraim and Simeon, even unto Naphtali, with their axes round about.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «ax» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.