aXe

/æks/ Cách viết khác : (axe) /æks/

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Definition

1. Noun:

   • A tool for chopping: An axe is a hand tool with a heavy, sharp metal blade attached at a right angle to a long wooden handle, used for chopping wood or felling trees.
   • A sudden removal or termination: Informally, "the axe" can refer to the act of abruptly ending something, such as a job, project, or service.

2. Verb:

   • To chop or cut down with an axe: To use an axe to cut, split, or fell something.
   • To terminate abruptly and decisively: To remove or end something suddenly, often as a cost-cutting measure or due to disapproval.

Usage Examples

• Noun:

  • He used a sharp axe to split the logs for the fire.
  • After the budget review, several departments faced the axe.

• Verb:

  • They had to axe the old tree before it fell on the house.
  • The television network decided to axe the unpopular show.

Advanced Usage

• To have an axe to grind: To have a strong personal opinion or selfish reason for being involved in something, often implying a hidden grievance or bias.

  • Be careful of his advice; he has an axe to grind regarding the new policy.

• To get the axe: To be dismissed from a job or to have a project terminated.

  • The entire marketing team got the axe after the failed campaign.

• To give the axe: To dismiss someone or terminate something.

  • Management gave the axe to the underperforming division.

Variants and Related Words

• Ax: An alternative spelling of "axe," common in American English.
• Axe-head: The metal blade part of an axe.
• Battle-axe: A type of axe historically used as a weapon; also a slang term for a formidable, aggressive woman.
• Pickaxe: A different tool with a pointed head, used for breaking up hard ground or rock.

Synonyms

• Noun (Tool): Hatchet, tomahawk, cleaver.
• Verb (Terminate): Cancel, eliminate, discontinue, scrap.

Related Phrasal Verbs

• Axe out: To exclude or remove someone or something, often forcefully.
  • He was axed out of the project at the last minute.

Related Idioms

• To bury the hatchet/axe: To make peace, to end a quarrel or conflict.

  • After years of feuding, the two families finally decided to bury the hatchet.

• To put the axe in the helve: To solve a difficult problem. (Archaic/rare)

• To send the axe after the helve: To make a bad situation worse by taking further reckless action. (Archaic/rare)

Học thuật

Noun

1. an edge tool with a heavy bladed head mounted across a handle

Verb

1. terminate
   • The NSF axed the research program and stopped funding it
2. chop or split with an ax
   • axe wood

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