(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.
Downsize
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) How do you draw a supportive social services ring around these families if they are forced as a result of housing benefit caps to move miles away to different boroughs and schools, or downsize into an overcrowded flat?
(2) Now they’re having to downsize, changing cities and dispose of all their toys, like their big trucks and Ski-doos, but nobody wants to buy that stuff because they can’t afford it either.” “It’s very depressing,” says Seibel, who’s still unemployed despite sending several hundreds of resumes, including to McDonalds, where he was told he was overqualified.
(3) Because of a shortage of smaller properties, many families have found it impossible to downsize and have been forced to make up the difference in rent, pushing many into arrears and debt.
(4) Downsize, by all means, but smaller, age-friendly homes are not always cheaper – and even retired people have to live somewhere.
(5) "Downsizing among this demographic by purchasing smaller homes using equity built up over years of booming property prices is a growing trend," says Mark Harris, chief executive of mortgage broker SPF Private Clients.
(6) There is a shortage of one bedroom flats in many parts of the region, with sharp competition between individuals trying to move on from supported housing, and those faced with having to downsize to avoid the bedroom tax or risk falling into arrears.
(7) You can always reduce the IHT hit by downsizing, giving your children some or all of the cash released by buying a cheaper property and then living another seven years to make the gift tax-free.
(8) Special efforts must be taken to ensure that downsizing will not exacerbate the existing problem of overspecialization and limited access to care.
(9) Nevertheless, Elop believes Nokia's downsizing and outplacement programmes are a good thing for Finland.
(10) On average, just downsizing from a three-bed to a two-bed home would release around £70,000, according to Savills.
(11) Around half of HMV's 223 stores are expected to close while Hilco has the backing of major film and music companies to run a downsized chain.
(12) Weaving admits that downsizing Cumbrian hospitals will be a "very sensitive thing for the public", but resources have been redeployed into creating new community NHS services as a result, such as setting up a team of home care nurses, with £6m of extra investment in 2009.
(13) Downsizing the state will supersize the economy - this is the economic prize politicians should be grabbing with both hands.
(14) As the report says, “this suggests that landlords with the highest proportion of affected tenants will have more difficulties in meeting the demand for downsizing.” In clinical researcher language, the report is an insight into the human misery of this failed policy .
(15) The couple are looking at home-swap schemes and are beginning to contemplate how they will dispose of belongings accumulated over 34 years of married life, in order to downsize.
(16) But the charity has been beset by financial turmoil following the announcement that the government would not give it its annual £5m grant this year, though it later negotiated a one-off £3m payment, what was called a “transforming and downsizing plan” after Batmanghelidjh said she would resign.
(17) He also downsized the number of people he expects to attend, dismissing initial estimates that 15,000 people may march and this week saying that he expected it would draw 3,000 to 5,000.
(18) If they choose to downsize, this group are popular with sellers and estate agents alike as they are often cash buyers or only need small mortgages.
(19) We had planned to stay in our current property two years, and with the equity and price rises we could then downsize and reduce our mortgage.
(20) By integrating automation technology with controlled downsizing and restructuring of drug distribution services, the department was able to reduce expenses while improving existing pharmaceutical services.