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# ax

«ax» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **a tool with a heavy metal blade on a long handle, used…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (an ax, axes); verb (ax, axes, axed, axing)

### meaning for a pupil

1) An ax is a tool with a heavy metal blade on a long handle, used for chopping wood. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/ax/#m1)

2) (informal) To ax something is to cancel it or cut it; to ax a worker is to fire them. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/ax/#m2)

3) In some old or dialect English, "ax" is another spelling of "ask". [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/ax/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

«Ax» is the American spelling; British, Irish, Canadian, Australian and NZ English usually write «axe». In history, Vikings fought with battle-axes. In news, «the show was axed» means cancelled. Safety: axes are very sharp and only for trained adults.

### examples

- § 11 Three vowels n"ax constitute a great secret, marvellous and hidden. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/ax/#x1)
- The lumberjack swung his ax at the tree. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/ax/#x2)
- George Washington's story tells of a cherry tree and an ax. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/ax/#x3)
- The TV show was axed after one season. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/ax/#x4)
- Dad chopped firewood with an ax. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/ax/#x5)
- The firefighter broke down the door with an ax. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/ax/#x6)
- Hundreds of jobs were axed at the factory. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/ax/#x7)

### note

US spelling «ax»; elsewhere «axe». Plural: axes (pronounced like the plural of «axis», but «axes» of a graph is a different word). Past: axed.

### In the corpora

- [And he shall set his battering engines against thy walls, and with his axes he shall break down thy towers.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.674/)
- [It seemed as when men wield upwards axes in a thicket of trees.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1256/)
- [And so did he in the cities of Manasseh and Ephraim and Simeon, even unto Naphtali, with their axes round about.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/2CH.801/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «ax» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/ax/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.