Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- n. Plural of axis.
- n. Plural of ax1.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- n. Plural form of ax.
- n. Plural form of axe.
- n. Plural form of axis.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Plural of ax and of axis.
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Examples
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The maker of the breaching axes is Daniel Winkler who, for twenty years or more has been pre-eminent in the re-creation of frontier cutlery.
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The paper focuses on three main axes of future progress †true broadband support, personalized media, and distributed control.
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The Mexico City we know today began as a rough sketch of an urban plan - attributed to Alonso de García Bravo, one of Hernán Cortés 'henchmen - incorporating two main axes at 90 degrees to the central plaza, with streets following a grid formation.
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It’s not so simple as saying that the axis of evil points from behind the counter, or from the front of a cab (i.e. that the “origin” of the axes is the center of projection of a camera or anything so simple-minded).
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People will grind their axes, that is inevitable, and politics may turn violent, but the worst can be avoided if competing interests and ambitions are balanced – which is possible, since there is enough to go around for everyone.
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You could call the axes "UNC" and "Dook" for all intensive purposes.
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Yeah, from my perspective, the axes are the wrong way round ...
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There are four types or eight types in the newer version for a reason to do with the structure of the model, namely the axes of the graph.
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You end up with a nice little hypercube of data, where the axes are the input variables and the data points are the observed viscosity.
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It is true, I do not approve what he says; but Plato seems to me, as he hath strangely and unaccountably called the axes spindles and distaffs, and the stars whirls, so to have named the Muses
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