Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A supporting shaft or member on or with which a wheel or a set of wheels revolves.
- n. The spindle of an axletree.
- n. Either end of an axletree.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The pin or spindle on which a wheel revolves, or which forms the axis of the wheel and revolves with it. Properly, the axle of a carriage-, cart-, or wagon-wheel is the round arm of the axletree or axle-bar which is inserted in the hub or nave, but the name is sometimes extended to the whole axletree.
- n. An axis, as of the earth.
Wiktionary
- n. obsolete Shoulder.
- n. The pin or spindle on which a wheel revolves, or which revolves with a wheel.
- n. A transverse bar or shaft connecting the opposite wheels of a car or carriage; an axletree.
- n. An axis; as, the sun’s axle.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The pin or spindle on which a wheel revolves, or which revolves with a wheel.
- n. A transverse bar or shaft connecting the opposite wheels of a car or carriage; an axletree.
- n. An axis.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a shaft on which a wheel rotates
Etymologies
- A combination of Old English eax and Old Norse öxull. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English axel, from Old Norse öxull. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“I did try a Mathews once but after shooting a 45inch axle bow then shooting a 33in axle bow showed me everything I needed to stick with my bear.”
“Is the rear axle is the best place for a balanced load?”
“The front right wheel had been completely sheared from what Julia believed was called the axle.”
“Among other things, they have demonstrated that ATP synthase can be compared to a molecular machine, whose rotating bent axle is driven in a step-wise process by "biological electricity" - that is, the flow of hydrogen ions.”
“For example, the front axle is the same axle since 1924.”
“He testified that if a tag axle tyre burst, its weight would be taken up by the wheels on the rear axle.”
“The front axle and the tag axle tyres carried far less weight than the rear axle.”
“Chevrolet's engineers are quite pleased with the rear suspension, which comprises a relatively conventional torsion-beam rear axle which is to say, it's not a truly independent rear suspension abetted with a Watts Link-type device that helps the rear end more obediently follow the front.”
“The nearest equivalent car I can think of that sits the driver so far from the front axle is the 2009 BMW Z4, but where that car’s been described as a clown shoe, Pulitzer Prize-winning auto hack Dan Neil says the SLS looks like “a hairbrush.””
“Therefore, the velocity of the planet mass at this position relative to the axle, which is part of the common plane, is determined as: feet/second”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘axle’.
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SCIE - EU nomenclature
All the scientific words found in the official EU nomenclature. For the screening I used Vocabgrabber of the Visual Thesaurus.
silicon, silica, shrimp, shelve, shallot, serine, seedling, septic, secretin, seaweed, screening, Scomber and 1171 more...
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TRAN - road transport
Vocabulary of road transport and roadworthiness
motor vehicle, limiter, brake drum, emission, vehicle, bodywork, chassis, vacuum pump, infrared radiation, disassemble, servo, exhaust and 216 more...
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IMCO - EU nomenclature
includes words of the "Prodcom list"
abaca, abdominal, abrasive, absorbent, absorber, accelerator, accessory, account book, accumulator, acebutolol, acetaldehyde, acetamide and 4515 more...
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CycList
Anything related to cycling; no motorcycling, please.
frame, pedal, crank arm, top tube, down tube, seat tube, seat stay, chain stay, saddle, fork, hub, rim and 97 more...
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In Cars
I've never learned how to drive or care for a car, but I recently inherited one that probably needs some work. Here's a list of vocabulary words I'll need to learn.
wheel, axle, steering wheel, seat, engine, windshield wiper, stick shift, limited slip diff..., catalytic converter, exhaust, trunk, window and 55 more...
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cool words
just for hahas
axiom, axle, masonry, ballistic, infused, vibrancy, twist, twisted, aspect, karmafective, electricity, a lot and 7 more...
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Common Words with Uncommon Letters
Words we see every day that are spelled with an X, Q, or Z.
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5-0
Hecko, words! I’m so happy I’ve found you. I want to keep you all and never want to lose you again. I hope you like it here.
amscray, thistledown, tine, tinsel, pungent, snarl, wail, lanky, viscid, dawdle, luminous, stow and 2719 more...
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ideas out loud
bandwagon, middle, via, web, fly, thru, safety, thor, swoosh, top, network effect, matrix and 200 more...
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Permutations
There are 17576 different sequences of three letters (26 x 26 x 26). How many of them occur in words? General rules of engagement: mononyms only, lower case preferred to upper case, short preferred...
aaargh, niqaabi, Isaac, raad, baaed, haaf, laager, aah, kamaaina, Naajaat, aak, aalii and 637 more...
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There can only be one
This is a list of awesome names. I'm limiting the list to real people that my friends and I have actually met.
cafeteria, holly wood, 7, 10^10, axle, ramin, stone, precious, your majesty prin..., cookie, genie boy
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"X" Words
Scrabble List
axe, box, cox, dex, fax, fix, fox, gox, hex, kex, lax, lex and 77 more...
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Poetrie: The Deacon's Masterpiece, or...
By Oliver Wendell Holmes (sr.?). Thanks to slumry for pointing out the link (a long time ago) to this.
Have you heard of the wonderful one-hoss shay,
That was built in such a log...dunce, perplexed, huddup, ewe-necked, rat-tailed, encore, back-crossbar, whippletree, masterpiece, dasher, bison-skin, linchpin and 19 more...
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must employ on more frequent occasions
These words I know, I just haven't used them in a while. Time to bring them back into vogue.
questionable, mishap, hectic, prone, departure, retrieve, elsewhere, insurmountable, distraught, immeasurable, potent, ravenous and 76 more...
Tweets
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