Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A saxophone.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A knife; a sword; a dagger about 20 inches in length.
- n. A slate-cutters' hammer. It has a point at the back of the head, for making nail-holes in slates. Also called slate-ax.
- n. A dialectal (Scotch) form of six.
- n. An abbreviation of Saxon and Saxony.
Wiktionary
- n. A knife; a sword; a dagger about 20 inches in length.
- n. A slate-cutter's hammer; slate-ax.
- v. transitive To cut or slash with a sharp instrument; incise; scarify.
- n. Short form of saxophone.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A kind of chopping instrument for trimming the edges of roofing slates.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a Belgian maker of musical instruments who invented the saxophone (1814-1894)
- n. a single-reed woodwind with a conical bore
Etymologies
- From saxophone. (Wiktionary)
Examples
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“The sax is a slow river, all misted over, in the decadent drift of summer nights— no roads leading anywhere, no want to find one, no dawn to come scratching at the window to be let in.”
“So I put overdubbed sax on there, too, and got a call from a country station here in town that said ' If you take that sax off and put a steel there, we ' ll play it.”
The Wall Street Journal: Billy Sherrill, Icon and Iconoclast
“ In that particular photo I can tell the sax is a woman, though probably no one else can.”
“In that particular photo I can tell the sax is a woman, though probably no one else can.”
“For example, the word sax in Anglo - Saxon means a sharp blade, "and rohmer in Anglo - Saxon stands for" a wanderer. ”
“In some circles, it is said that playing the sax is the only thing Clinton can do without his wife or a friendly Cabinet member pulling his strings, but this is far from relevant to the current point.”
“The pop feeling continues to carry Side A with 'Invisible Sun', a sociological discourse with a touch of early Traffic, and 'Hungry for You', an interesting bit of bilingual horseplay set against Sting's overdubbed sax and Copeland's funky percussion.”
“His sax was a pillar of the E Street sound; Clemons also was the band's spiritual center.”
“Then Irabagon starts steering a different route on sax, which is complemented later when Evans lays out a furious trumpet display.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘sax’.
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3-letter Scrabble Words
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Xcessive
Valid 3-letter words with an x. Also, longer words with more than one x in them.
wax, fix, tux, box, sex, max, six, aux, pox, hex, tax, mix and 78 more...
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X Marks the Spot
Words ending in "x" (except proper nouns and trademarks)
ax, ex, ox, soapbox, smallpox, six, sex, sax, rex, pressbox, climax, chickenpox and 208 more...
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Fun with Apocopes
Words created by removing the end of a longer or original word. See also Fun with Aphesis.
abs, ad, bio, veg, veggie, tux, auto, bike, carbs, pecs, bro, sis and 186 more...
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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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The Roaring Twenties
A selection of words and phrases that entered the language between 1920 and 1929. Primary sources for this list are:
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