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 Translation for 'ax' from English to French
NOUN   an ax | axes
VERB   to ax | axed | axed
axing | axes
SYNO to ax | to axe
biffer qc.to ax sth. [Am.] [coll.] [remove ruthlessly]
Nouns
outil.
hache {f}
ax [Am.]
outil.
cognée {f} [hache]
ax [Am.]
mus.
gratte {f} [fam.] [guitare]
ax [Am.] [coll.] [guitar]
2 Words
armes
bardiche {f}
beard ax [Am.]
armes
bardiche {f}
bearded ax [Am.]
outil.PoSauv.
hache {f} d'incendie
fire ax [Am.]
outil.sport
piolet {m}
ice ax [Am.]
3 Words
occup.
passer à la caisse [loc.] [être renvoyé]
to get the ax [Am.] [coll.]
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Usage Examples English
  • Each year, the schools play for "The Battle of the Ax" in which an engraved ax is awarded to the winner.
  • When a Tlingit references their mind or feelings, he always discusses this in terms of "ax̲ toowú", "my mind".
  • One hypothesis for the name "Ismail-Ax" is that it could be a reference to Drum Hadley's poem "The Goat Ranchers" which talk about "Ishmael's Ax".
  • Upon discovering Erik's corpse, Lamb Mask throws her through the window and kills her by driving an ax into the side of her head.
  • Legend has it that he "borrowed" his bother's double-bladed ax one day.

  • "ax" + "by" + "cz" = 1 gives a polyhedron with 48 faces, e.g. the disdyakis dodecahedron.
  • A battle axe (also battle-axe, battle ax, or battle-ax) is an axe specifically designed for combat.
  • The meaning of the word Tabarbour is "wasteland which the ax cannot penetrate."
  • James recalled Woodruff as a hardline disciplinarian who had a saying: kill a mosquito with an ax, but go sharpen the ax first.
  • Then he tries to chop it with an ax, and the ax flies up and splits the room in half.

  • The "Golden Ax" is used as a symbol given only to an elite of members known as "hachados" (ax holders) and this honor could only be given and taken away by the World Command.
  • The Peugeot 106 (launched in 1991) and Citroën Saxo were both developments of the AX.
  • Ax Handle Saturday, also known as the Jacksonville riot of 1960, was a racially motivated attack that took place in Hemming Park (now known as James Weldon Johnson Park or JWJ Park) in Jacksonville, Florida, on August 27, 1960.
  • The Arabic word "Barzakh" is derived from the Middle Persian "Barzag", "barrier, partition", which in turn can be traced back to the Parthian combination "burz+ax(v)" ("high existence"), similar to the Persian word for hell, "dūzakh" < "dūž+ax(v)" ("evil existence").
  • Find a rational number between "b"x and "ax", say "p/q" such that "bx > p/q > ax".

  • Stone axes are traditional tribal traditional weapons in Papua and West Papua.
  • At ITU WARC2003 the radio amateur station callsign specification was amended so that the earlier maximum length of six characters was raised to seven characters.
  • The word "ask" has the nonstandard variant "ax" pronounced [...]; the spelling "ask" is found in Shakespeare and in the King James Bible and "ax" in Chaucer, Caxton, and the Coverdale Bible.
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