What's the difference between ale and axe?

Ale


Definition:

  • (n.) An intoxicating liquor made from an infusion of malt by fermentation and the addition of a bitter, usually hops.
  • (n.) A festival in English country places, so called from the liquor drunk.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He said: "A frothy pint of ale and a Snickers from the fridge."
  • (2) Having effectively achieved its goal to promote cask ale as “real” ale (more than 11,000 real ales are now brewed in the UK ), the 45-year-old organisation has been enduring an identity crisis, and is looking to its members for a solution .
  • (3) Nosheen Iqbal, writer Discovering the Acoustic Tent (and its real ale supplies) After nearly three decades of Glastonbury attendance, this year I finally made it up the hill to the Acoustic Tent.
  • (4) Repeated administration of ALE-36 significantly accelerated the healing of gastric ulcers induced by thermocautery.
  • (5) Normally I'm really interesting to talk to but I just can't right now," one employee, drinking an ale, smiled sheepishly.
  • (6) The relaxation of TV product placement rules raised the possibility that regulars at Coronation Street's Rovers Return would be swapping their fictional Newton and Ridley ale for a pint of Boddingtons.
  • (7) In a small number of areas, we found that after the merger the parties would operate pubs in close proximity without facing sufficient competition from rivals and we are concerned this could lead to a rise in the price of food or drink or a reduction in the quality of those pubs.” Greene King, which brews Old Speckled Hen and Abbott Ale and operates chains such as Hungry Horse and Loch Fyne, said it intended to offer concessions to meet CMA concerns.
  • (8) The local authority stepped in last week to throw a protective arm around the borough’s licensed premises, a move real-ale lobby group Camra has urged other councils to follow in order to slow the closure of pubs for redevelopment.
  • (9) A short stumble from Horfield common, it's the last best stop on the A38 out of Bristol, with its ever-changing ales, wood fires, good food and amusingly graffitied Jenga.
  • (10) Maltings' seven cask ales include permanent Black Sheep, regular staples such as York Brewery's Guzzler and beers from newer, smaller breweries, such as Coxhoe's Sonnet 43 and Morpeth's Anarchy.
  • (11) The three other finalists were The Drovers Rest in Carlisle, the Kelham Island Tavern in Sheffield and The Yard of Ale, a micropub in Broadstairs, Kent.
  • (12) Liam Byrne: Jeremy Corbyn is craft ale of Labour movement Read more Mandelson warned that he feared some moderates in that atmosphere would drift away from the party, leading to the party’s possible disintegration.
  • (13) Nigel Farage must have been smiling to himself as he supped his pint of real ale last night.
  • (14) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Brewdog Camden staff react by taking Camden Hells lager off their craft beer menu Peroni and Grolsch owner SAB Miller snapped up Camden’s rival Meantime earlier this year, while Diageo used its Guinness brand as a launchpad for a series of ales and porters.
  • (15) The pub's renowned food includes home-made cheese and onion, steak and kidney and beef and ale pies.
  • (16) When low workloads with ALE and ACE were compared, no significant differences (p greater than 0.05) were demonstrated in any of the variables for men or women.
  • (17) Her husband, the internationally renowned human rights activist Ales Bialiatski, did just that, jailed in August 2011 for four-and-half years on tax avoidance charges that he, and human rights organisations, call spurious.
  • (18) That night we drank local ales in Dirty Sally’s bar with the manager, biker Bill, clad in black leather Harley jacket with long grey hair in a ponytail.
  • (19) Life stress was measured with the Social and Athletic Readjustment Rating Scale (SARRS) and the Athletic Life Experiences Survey (ALES).
  • (20) It's brewed in the town by Cuilán Loughnane, who was inspired to start his White Gypsy Brewery in 2009 after tasting his first pint of real ale in, of all places, Heathrow airport.

Axe


Definition:

  • (n.) A tool or instrument of steel, or of iron with a steel edge or blade, for felling trees, chopping and splitting wood, hewing timber, etc. It is wielded by a wooden helve or handle, so fixed in a socket or eye as to be in the same plane with the blade. The broadax, or carpenter's ax, is an ax for hewing timber, made heavier than the chopping ax, and with a broader and thinner blade and a shorter handle.
  • () Alt. of Axeman

Example Sentences:

  • (1) An ice axe, assumed to belong to Irvine, had been discovered in 1933 by the fourth British expedition to the mountain.
  • (2) The calculated separation between the centers of these two pigments (using an extended version of the exciton theory) is about 10 A, the pigments' molecular planes are tilted by about 20 degrees, and their N1-N3 axes are rotated by 150 degrees relative to each other.
  • (3) The helix axes, penetrating the hydrophobic region of the bilayers, were oriented neither parallel nor perpendicular to the membrane normal.
  • (4) Glencore has responded in textbook fashion: it has cut operating costs, sold assets and taken the axe to capital investment.
  • (5) Early papers on interspecies pharmacokinetic scaling normalized the x- and y-axes to illustrate the superimpossibility of pharmacokinetic curves from different species.
  • (6) Loss-making Northern Rock is axing another 680 jobs as it cuts costs in preparation for a return to the private sector after being nationalised in February 2008 .
  • (7) Thousands of jobs have been axed , including more than 4,000 senior nurses .
  • (8) The authors have studied the longest and the shortest nuclear axes, the ratio between nuclear axes, the nuclear areas and the mitotic indices in melanocytic tumors and have noted progressive changes of the values in superficial spreading and in nodular melanoma as compared to nevi.
  • (9) UniCredit, Italy’s biggest bank, last week announced plans to raise €13bn in a record-breaking share issue and axe 11% of the workforce.
  • (10) The BBC should not be forced to close any channels or axe any programmes as part of any review of plurality and ownership in the media industry, according to a submission the broadcaster has filed with media regulator Ofcom .
  • (11) In this paper, the three rotational axes are shown to be skewed and off-set from each other, therefore, a three-cylindric open chain with skewed joint axes is proposed to measure the six displacements between the two reference frames.
  • (12) The axes of these lines converge in a frontal plane on the epiphysis.
  • (13) The experimental results demonstrate that a parallel arrangement of the longitudinal axes of the lateral teeth is formed co-operatively in the dental arch.
  • (14) But he denied having an axe to grind against Riordan, now a Fair Work Commissioner.
  • (15) Measurements of the angle of the gibbus and the angle of intersection of the renal axes were made in 68 children with thoracolumbar meningomyelocele.
  • (16) The crystals are trigonal, space group P3(1)21 with axes a = b = 102.2 A and c = 58.5 A.
  • (17) The mRNAs begin to accumulate during late embryogeny, reach maximal levels in seedling cotyledons, are not detected at significant amounts in leaves, and are distributed similarly in cotyledons and axes of seedlings.
  • (18) In addition, the co-aligned configuration of the ends of the sex-chromosome axes of this species and the lack of silver-stainable threads or filaments connecting them suggest the existence of two mechanisms for association of the sex chromosomes during prophase I and metaphase I: attachment of the ends of both sex chromosome axes to the nuclear envelope and heterochromatin "stickiness."
  • (19) Tomography of the petrous bones showed, in both cases, an upward tilt of the long axes of the bones including their auditory canals, generalized sclerosis of the petrous pyramids and enlargement of the ossicles.
  • (20) Taking the axe to public spending would, they say, allow the chancellor to cut taxes and that would prompt a private sector led recovery.

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