axe
- IPA[aks]
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- a tool typically used for chopping wood, usually a steel blade attached at a right angle to a wooden handle;a measure intended to reduce costs drastically, especially one that involves elimination of staff
- end, cancel, or dismiss suddenly and ruthlessly;reduce (costs or services) drastically
noun: axe, plural noun: axes
verb: axe, 3rd person present: axes, gerund or present participle: axing, past tense: axed, past participle: axed
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- n.名詞
- 1. a tool typically used for chopping wood, usually a steel blade attached at a right angle to a wooden handle:
I started swinging the axe at the lumps of driftwood
an axe blade
- 2. a measure intended to reduce costs drastically, especially one that involves elimination of staff:
thirty workers are facing the axe in the assembly department
- 3. a musical instrument, especially one played by a jazz or rock musician.
- v.動詞
- 1. end, cancel, or dismiss suddenly and ruthlessly:
the company is axing 125 jobs
2,500 staff were axed as part of the realignment
- 2. reduce (costs or services) drastically:
the candidates all promised to axe government spending
- 3. cut or strike with an axe, especially violently or destructively:
the door had been axed by the firefighters
n. an axe with two blades.
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n. a person who commits murder with an axe (frequently used to evoke an image of a violent psychopathic criminal):
a convicted axe murderer
you could be an axe murderer for all I know!
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n. an axe used by climbers for cutting footholds in ice, having a head with one pointed and one flattened end, and a spike at the foot.
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n. a type of kick used in taekwondo and other martial arts, in which the opponent's head is struck with the heel of the foot.
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n. a person who commits murder with an axe (frequently used to evoke an image of a violent psychopathic criminal):
a convicted axe murderer
you could be an axe murderer for all I know!
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n. an axe used by climbers for cutting footholds in ice, having a head with one pointed and one flattened end, and a spike at the foot.
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n. a butcher's cleaver.
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n. another term for double axe
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- n.a tool used for chopping wood, typically of iron with a steel edge and wooden handle:
- I started swinging the axe at the lumps of driftwood
an axe blade
- v.end, cancel, or dismiss suddenly and ruthlessly:
- the company is axing 125 jobs
2,500 staff were axed as part of a rationalization programme
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”have an axe to grind”中文意思?
以下答覆出自參考資料 have an axe to grind 比喻人說某話,做某事別有用心,另有企圖 ...為了磨他的那把斧頭,根據這個故事,人們後來便常常用have an axe to grind一語來比喻人說某話,做某事別有用心,另有企圖。例如...
ax和axe有什麼~不同呢?
ax 與 axe 之意義皆為"斧" 只是ax為美式用法 axe則為英式用法
有誰可以給我個詩或文章??
... cutting wood on the bank of a river. Suddenly his axe fell into the water. The poor woodcutter did not know how to swim...