(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.
Boot
Definition:
(n.) Remedy; relief; amends; reparation; hence, one who brings relief.
(n.) That which is given to make an exchange equal, or to make up for the deficiency of value in one of the things exchanged.
(n.) Profit; gain; advantage; use.
(v. t.) To profit; to advantage; to avail; -- generally followed by it; as, what boots it?
(v. t.) To enrich; to benefit; to give in addition.
(n.) A covering for the foot and lower part of the leg, ordinarily made of leather.
(n.) An instrument of torture for the leg, formerly used to extort confessions, particularly in Scotland.
(n.) A place at the side of a coach, where attendants rode; also, a low outside place before and behind the body of the coach.
(n.) A place for baggage at either end of an old-fashioned stagecoach.
(n.) An apron or cover (of leather or rubber cloth) for the driving seat of a vehicle, to protect from rain and mud.
(n.) The metal casing and flange fitted about a pipe where it passes through a roof.
(v. t.) To put boots on, esp. for riding.
(v. t.) To punish by kicking with a booted foot.
(v. i.) To boot one's self; to put on one's boots.
(n.) Booty; spoil.
Example Sentences:
(1) In this study of ten consecutive patients sustaining molten metal injuries to the lower extremity who were treated with excision and grafting, treatment with compression Unna paste boot was compared with that with conventional dressing.
(2) The ulcers on seven of ten legs (70%) treated with Unna's boots and on 10 of 14 legs (71%) treated with elastic support stocking healed.
(3) Adjunctive usage of elastic stockings and intermittent compression pneumatic boots in the perioperative period was helpful in controlling leg swelling and promoting wound healing.
(4) Were he from Iceland, or from the north pole, then I would say he still had his ski boots on.
(5) Children as young as 18 months start by sliding on tiny skis in soft supple boots, while over-threes have more formal lessons in the snow playground.
(6) Meanwhile, we have boots on the ground in Ferguson, Missouri.
(7) That would kickstart the spin again and then some, in doublequick time to boot.
(8) Extents of in situ ruminal digestion (72 h residue) for NDF, hemicellulose and cellulose were lower (P less than .05) for full-head than for late-boot-stage bromegrass.
(9) Each moment was scripted, from the placement of his riding boots in the stirrups of the riderless black horse that accompanied his procession through Washington, to tonight’s burial at sunset back in California.
(10) The 48-year-old, who turned to acting after hanging up his boots, told the Sun on Sunday it is the greatest challenge he has come up against.
(11) William Boot's work was done, and it was time to go home.
(12) Are we moving from a culture where MPs stayed in parliament until booted out, to one where many do five years and move on, frustrated and exhausted?
(13) Its boot always held a bivouac bag, a trenching tool of some sort and a towel and trunks, in case he passed somewhere interesting to sleep, dig, or swim.
(14) There's a cute one comparing feelings to children: you don't want to let them drive, but equally you don't want to stuff them in the boot.
(15) And for kids born post-smartphone, they’re the diary that us (comparative) olds kept on paper, the disposable camera that cost us £7.99 and seven days to develop at Boots: an inextricable part of how young people live their lives.
(16) cc @ kidweil #USMNT March 23, 2013 5 mins of stoppage time we're hearing... 4.00am GMT 88 mins ...Barrantes is over the ball and he drives it low and hard, but Dempsey boots it clear.
(17) Politicians On the surface a recession would be a disaster for Labour, yet it doesn't always follow that the government party gets booted out when times are hard.
(18) The people were free, the dictator was dead, a mooted massacre had been averted – and all this without any obvious boots on the ground.
(19) The player can expect another reminder from the boot manufacturer that “all or nothing” must still only be applied within reason.
(20) The box itself is nearly identical to that of the 5S, while a picture of the phone being turned on shows the familiar Apple logo on a boot screen.