{
  "Axum":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      "\u2014 see aksum":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-233637",
    "type":[
      "adjective or noun",
      "geographical name"
    ]
  },
  "ax":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      "Emanuel 1949\u2013 American (Ukrainian-born of Polish parents) pianist":[],
      "axiom":[],
      "axis":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8aks"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-224236",
    "type":[
      "abbreviation",
      "biographical name",
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "axe":{
    "antonyms":[
      "bounce",
      "can",
      "cashier",
      "discharge",
      "dismiss",
      "fire",
      "muster out",
      "pink-slip",
      "release",
      "remove",
      "retire",
      "sack",
      "terminate",
      "turn off"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a cutting tool that consists of a heavy edged head fixed to a handle with the edge parallel to the handle and that is used especially for felling trees and chopping and splitting wood":[],
      ": a hammer with a sharp edge for dressing (see dress entry 1 sense 6e ) or spalling stone":[],
      ": abrupt elimination or severe reduction of something":[
        "Unlimited expense accounts, signing bonuses, and office plants\u2014all are getting the ax [=being cut or eliminated] thanks to corporate cost-cutting measures.",
        "\u2014 Amanda Hinnant",
        "No party was brave enough to offend its supporters by taking an axe to [=severely reducing] expenditure.",
        "\u2014 The Economist"
      ],
      ": an ulterior often selfish underlying purpose":[
        "claims that he has no axe to grind in criticizing the proposed law"
      ],
      ": any of several musical instruments (such as a guitar or a saxophone)":[],
      ": removal from office or release from employment : dismissal":[
        "\u2014 usually used with the Employees with poor evaluations got the axe . Trump quickly gave him the ax [=fired him] for his incompetence. \u2014 Laura Petrecca"
      ],
      ": to chop, split, or sever with an axe":[
        "axe branches from a tree"
      ],
      ": to remove abruptly (as from employment or from a budget)":[
        "The TV program was axed from the new schedule."
      ],
      ": to shape, dress (see dress entry 1 sense 6e ), or trim with an axe":[
        "axe stone"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Noun",
      "the company was hemorrhaging money, so 700 employees would soon be given the ax",
      "Verb",
      "The boss told him that he had been axed .",
      "the boss will ax anyone who leaks company secrets",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "Everybody that got rejected has a legitimate ax to grind. \u2014 Laura Johnston, cleveland , 29 Apr. 2022",
      "People who have a political ax to grind aren't welcome in our parade. \u2014 Sahar Akbarzai, CNN , 2 Jan. 2022",
      "Among the gems: Johnny Ramone\u2019s black and white Mosrite Ventures II guitar, his main ax from November 1977 through August 1996 \u2014 with the battle scars to prove it. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 20 Sep. 2021",
      "The rules are simple: One man will have the opportunity to inflict any blow on the knight and receive his exquisite ax . \u2014 Tyler Bey, The Christian Science Monitor , 30 July 2021",
      "Kaduce set his snow hook and pulled out his ax , a mandatory item for Iditarod mushers. \u2014 Marc Lester, Anchorage Daily News , 18 Mar. 2021",
      "The officer had pulled a car over near the intersection of Bond Street and McDowell Road when a second vehicle pulled up and a man in his 20s charged at the officer armed with an ax , a Naperville Police Department news release said. \u2014 Suzanne Baker, Chicago Tribune , 3 June 2022",
      "In an assault on Israel\u2019s independence day, two Palestinian men allegedly bludgeoned three men to death with an ax in the ultra-Orthodox town of Elad. \u2014 Shira Rubin, Washington Post , 27 May 2022",
      "For years, the image of a mountain climber was someone like Reinhold Messner or Edmund Hillary -- bearded, serious, ice- ax -toting white men from Europe or North America. \u2014 Lilit Marcus, CNN , 29 May 2022",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
      "The European Union wants ax its dependence on Russian oil and gas by two-thirds this year and completely over five years through alternative sources, wind and solar, and conservation. \u2014 Derek Gatopoulos, ajc , 29 Apr. 2022",
      "Sources tell The Hollywood Reporter that the decision to ax the comedy was made months ago after the now fourth season and ultimate series finale aired back in December. \u2014 Lesley Goldberg, The Hollywood Reporter , 27 Apr. 2022",
      "Irwin didn\u2019t ax all of Patrick Henry\u2019s advanced courses. \u2014 Kristen Taketa, San Diego Union-Tribune , 10 Apr. 2022",
      "Her father also worked as a blacksmith and made baskets and ax handles. \u2014 Washington Post , 3 Mar. 2022",
      "Noting Germany's decision last month to freeze the certification of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, Novak said Russia could ax the existing Nord Stream 1 pipeline \u2013 considered one of Europe's main sources of natural gas. \u2014 Celina Tebor, USA TODAY , 8 Mar. 2022",
      "The cancellations come after a week of travel chaos over the holidays that saw airlines ax thousands of flights, with some blaming the spread of omicron among crew and other staff. \u2014 NBC News , 29 Dec. 2021",
      "SkyWest, a major partner for United, Delta, American and Alaska, has had among the heaviest flight cancellations in the past couple of weeks as airlines tend to ax those regional flights first. \u2014 Dawn Gilbertson, USA TODAY , 7 Jan. 2022",
      "The Mayo Clinic has faced some backlash over its policy, with 38 lawmakers signing a letter to the hospital last month asking it to ax the rule. \u2014 NBC News , 5 Jan. 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun",
      "circa 1674, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Verb"
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English, from Old English \u00e6cs ; akin to Old High German ackus ax, Latin ascia , Greek axin\u0113":"Noun and Verb"
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8aks"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "discharge",
      "dismissal",
      "furlough",
      "layoff",
      "redundancy"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-001345",
    "type":[
      "noun",
      "verb"
    ]
  },
  "axis":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a line actually drawn and used as the basis of measurements in an architectural or other working drawing":[],
      ": a main line of direction, motion, growth, or extension":[
        "the axis of a city"
      ],
      ": a plant stem":[],
      ": a point or continuum on which something centers":[
        "an axis of social power"
      ],
      ": a straight line about which a body or a geometric figure rotates or may be supposed to rotate":[
        "the Earth's axis"
      ],
      ": a straight line that bisects at right angles a system of parallel chords of a curve and divides the curve into two symmetrical parts":[],
      ": a straight line with respect to which a body or figure is symmetrical":[
        "the axis of a cone"
      ],
      ": an implied line in painting or sculpture through a composition to which elements in the composition are referred":[
        "fruit and flowers arranged about a diagonal axis"
      ],
      ": any of three fixed lines of reference in an aircraft that run in the longitudinal, lateral, and vertical directions, are mutually perpendicular, and usually pass through the aircraft's center of gravity":[],
      ": any of various central, fundamental, or axial parts":[],
      ": of or relating to the three powers Germany, Italy, and Japan engaged against the Allied nations in World War II":[],
      ": one of several imaginary lines assumed in describing the positions of the planes by which a crystal is bounded and the positions of atoms in the structure of the crystal":[],
      ": one of the reference lines of a coordinate system (see coordinate entry 3 sense 1a )":[],
      ": partnership , alliance":[
        "an axis of countries"
      ],
      ": the second vertebra of the neck on which the head and first vertebra turn as on a pivot":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Noun",
      "the Earth's axis of rotation",
      "the spin of the Earth on its axis",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "Hope and belief exist at different points on the same axis . \u2014 New York Times , 3 May 2022",
      "His hometown has been spared any major attacks, but even as the fighting shifts to the east, Kryvyi Rih sits on a key axis . \u2014 Washington Post , 21 Apr. 2022",
      "Some towers with higher fundamental frequencies, however, twist around the central axis . \u2014 Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica , 7 Mar. 2022",
      "America's highest court, for decades resting on a 5-4 conservative-liberal axis , with swing-vote justices often providing moderation, suddenly became controlled by a 6-3 conservative supermajority. \u2014 Joan Biskupic, CNN , 18 Sep. 2021",
      "Vineyards are typically oriented on a southwest axis to shade vines from the afternoon sun. \u2014 Joseph V Micallef, Forbes , 2 Sep. 2021",
      "In class, students a few hours into the day learned about Steinbeck and plotting positives on a Y axis . \u2014 Zaz Hollander, Anchorage Daily News , 19 Aug. 2021",
      "Focus on being a better person, instead of trying to make the world wobble on its axis . \u2014 Kyle Smith, National Review , 21 May 2022",
      "Earth is spinning on its axis , leading to the Coriolis effect, which causes objects to move in curved lines. \u2014 Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics , 29 Apr. 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Noun",
      "1938, in the meaning defined above":"Adjective"
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English, \"imaginary line passing through the center of a body, celestial axis,\" borrowed from Latin, \"axletree, axle, chariot, celestial axis,\" going back to Indo-European *h 2 e\u1e31s- \"axle,\" whence also, with varying thematic derivation, Germanic *ahs\u014d (whence Old English eax \"axle,\" Old Saxon & Old High German ahsa ), Old Russian/Eastern Church Slavic os\u012d \"axle,\" Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian \u00f4s, Lithuanian a\u0161\u00ecs, Old Prussian assis, Greek axon-, \u00e1x\u014dn, Sanskrit \u00e1k\u1e63a\u1e25, Avestan a\u0161a- \"armpit\"":"Noun"
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8ak-s\u0259s"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "base",
      "capital",
      "center",
      "central",
      "core",
      "cynosure",
      "epicenter",
      "eye",
      "focus",
      "ground zero",
      "heart",
      "hub",
      "locus",
      "mecca",
      "navel",
      "nerve center",
      "nexus",
      "nucleus",
      "omphalos",
      "seat"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-031033",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "axonost":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": any of the interspinal bones supporting the dorsal and anal fins of a fish":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "New Latin axon + English -ost":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8aks\u0259\u02ccn\u00e4st"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-130843",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "axoplasm":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": the protoplasm of an axon":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1997, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "axo n + -plasm":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8ak-s\u0259-\u02ccpla-z\u0259m",
      "\u02c8ak-s\u0259-\u02ccplaz-\u0259m"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-103141",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "axopodium":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a semipermanent pseudopodium that consists of an axial rod surrounded by an ectoplasmic sheath and that is typically present in Radiolaria and Heliozoa":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "New Latin axopodium , from ax- + -podium":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccaks\u0259\u02c8p\u014dd\u0113\u0259m"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-075958",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "axseed":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a European vetchlike herb ( Coronilla varia ) naturalized in the eastern U.S. and having umbels of pink-and-white flowers and sharp-angled pods":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8ak\u02ccs\u0113d"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-203105",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "axunge":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{},
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle French & Late Latin; Middle French axunge , from Late Latin axungia , from Latin, axle grease, from axis axle + -ungia (from ungere, unguere to grease, anoint)":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8ak\u02ccs\u0259nj"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-023920",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  }
}