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# sax

«sax» in Mova's school dictionary: **a saxophone, a curved metal wind instrument played with a…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a sax, saxes)

### meaning for a pupil

(informal) A sax is a saxophone, a curved metal wind instrument played with a reed, used in jazz and pop. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sax/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In music lessons and bands, the sax is a woodwind instrument, even though made of brass. Phrases: play the sax.

### examples

- He plays the sax in the school band. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sax/#x1)
- The sax solo was great. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sax/#x2)
- My sax is in the case. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sax/#x3)
- Jazz bands often have a sax. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sax/#x4)
- I want to learn the sax. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sax/#x5)
- The sax player blew a long note. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sax/#x6)

### note

Short for saxophone. Plural: saxes. Sounds like «sacks» and «Saxe», homophones.

### Trees and pragmatics

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