What's the difference between axes and axle?

Axes


Definition:

  • (pl. ) of Axis

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.

Axle


Definition:

  • (n.) The pin or spindle on which a wheel revolves, or which revolves with a wheel.
  • (n.) A transverse bar or shaft connecting the opposite wheels of a car or carriage; an axletree.
  • (n.) An axis; as, the sun's axle.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Interpretive criteria for AxLS were refined after correlation of the identified image components with clinical parameters including axillary surgery, lymph node histology and relapse within a follow-up period of 2 years from the study.
  • (2) Addition of axolemma- and myelin-enriched membrane fractions (AXL and MYE, respectively) to cultured Schwann cells stimulated 32P incorporation into phosphatidylinositol 4-monophosphate [PtdIns(4)P] and phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate [PtdIns(4,5)P2].
  • (3) According to Reitzell, who monitors these things on the internet, the two most anticipated returns in all of rock'n'roll are those of Axl Rose and Kevin Shields.
  • (4) Expression of axl cDNA in the baculovirus system results in the expression of the appropriate recombinant protein that is recognized by antiphosphotyrosine antibodies, confirming that the axl protein is a tyrosine kinase.
  • (5) The results show clinically relevant differences between the 2 positions of the pedal axle, being in many cases statistically significant (p less than or equal to 0.01).
  • (6) angle," i.e., the angle between the vertical through the rear axle and a line connecting the rear axle and the system center-of-gravity.
  • (7) The pressure of the pulmonary artery (PAP) was elevated at rest and under exercise load when the pedal axle was elevated.
  • (8) Best of all was the technic Lego, the gears and axles and motors that formed the guts of fantastical machines, frequently purposeless but endlessly fascinating.
  • (9) The digitized film was used to compute the angular kinematics of the shoulder and elbow joints, the variations in the position of the trunk (as measured by a marker on the neck) and hand relative to the axle of the rear wheel.
  • (10) The oxygen saturation of the blood was somewhat less at rest and during exercise load when the pedal axle was elevated compared to the findings with the low pedal axle.
  • (11) The Wrap last week reported that Cruise was spending up to five hours a day with Axl Rose's voice coach, to good effect.
  • (12) Experienced wheelchair users in their own lightweight wheelchairs were less stable than users of conventional chairs (t = 2.16, p less than 0.05) or chairs with posteriorly offset axles (t = 3.64, p less than 0.01).
  • (13) In the first animal experiment using nonoptimized vanes, there was no thrombus at the back plane or the seal, and only a small thrombus at the transition between axle and rotor.
  • (14) The double-fluorescent fused cells were significantly different in AXL (size) and RAS (internal structure) distribution compared with the (non-fused) mono-fluorescent cells.
  • (15) A set of bicycle pedals is connected by a chain drive, axle, and wall-mounted sealed ball bearing to an external ergometer.
  • (16) Out of one hundred of individuals studied, 93 showed a diagnosis in Axle I according to DSM-IIIR criteria for mental disorders classification.
  • (17) Axl Rose could take his shirt off and that was rock'n'roll!
  • (18) Previous guests include the Guns 'N' Roses frontman Axl Rose, compared to whom Lopes seemed to suggest a squad of footballers would be a piece of cake.
  • (19) Important information can even be obtained about the wood used: its condition, the wooden axles, and abrasion of the gears.
  • (20) An acrylic disc is equipped with a short brass axle.