səl Origin:
before 900; Middle English axel, Old English eaxl shoulder, crossbeam (in eaxle-gespann); cognate with Old Frisian ax(e)le, Old Saxon ahsla, Old High German ahsala shoulder (German Achsel), Old Norse ǫxl, Latin āla (< derivative of *akslā)
before 900; Middle English axel, Old English eaxl shoulder, crossbeam (in eaxle-gespann); cognate with Old Frisian ax(e)le, Old Saxon ahsla, Old High German ahsala shoulder (German Achsel), Old Norse ǫxl, Latin āla (< derivative of *akslā)
Related forms
ax·led, adjective
un·ax·led, adjective
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| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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| —n | |
| a bar or shaft on which a wheel, pair of wheels, or other rotating member revolves | |
| [C17: from Old Norse öxull; related to German Achse; see | |
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Word Origin & History
axle
M.E. axel-, from some combination of O.E. eax and O.N. öxull "axis," both from P.Gmc. *akhsulaz, from PIE *aks- "axis" (see axis). Found only in compound axle-tree before 14c.
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AXLE definition
languageAn early string processing language in which a program consists of an "assertion table" specifying patterns and an "imperative table" specifying replacements.
["AXLE: An Axiomatic Language for String Transformations", K. Cohen et al, CACM 8(11):657-661, Nov 1965].
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Example sentences
Wheels on a car rotate around a strong horizontal bar called an axle.
Most drivers are barely aware of their wheels, the metal rims that connect the tires to the axle.
For wind turbines, the blade and axle are the essential motions.
Sometimes it was prescribed that the cart-wheel used for fire-making and the axle on which it turned should both be new.
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