Crossword-Solution: AXIS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Axis | n. | The spotted deer (Cervus axis or Axis maculata) of India, where it is called hog deer and parrah (Moorish name). |
| Axis | n. | A straight line, real or imaginary, passing through a body, on which it revolves, or may be supposed to revolve; a line passing through a body or system around which the parts are symmetrically arranged. |
| Axis | n. | A straight line with respect to which the different parts of a magnitude are symmetrically arranged; as, the axis of a cylinder, i. e., the axis of a cone, that is, the straight line joining the vertex and the center of the base; the axis of a circle, any straight line passing through the center. |
| Axis | n. | The stem; the central part, or longitudinal support, on which organs or parts are arranged; the central line of any body. |
| Axis | n. | The second vertebra of the neck, or vertebra dentata. |
| Axis | n. | Also used of the body only of the vertebra, which is prolonged anteriorly within the foramen of the first vertebra or atlas, so as to form the odontoid process or peg which serves as a pivot for the atlas and head to turn upon. |
| Axis | n. | One of several imaginary lines, assumed in describing the position of the planes by which a crystal is bounded. |
| Axis | n. | The primary or secondary central line of any design. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| AXIS | anagram | SAXI, SIXA |
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One who, or that which, eats.
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Sentences with AXIS (5)
The lanceolate windows, the time-eaten arch-stones and chamfers, the orientation of the axis, the misty chestnut work of the rafters, referred to no exploded fortifying art or worn-out religious creed.
But if, while revolving, the axis inclines either to the right or left, forwards or backwards, then in no point of view can they be at rest.
Anticlinal axis (Geol.), a line or ridge from which the strata slope downward on the two opposite sides.
Far to the southward Mount Whitney lifts its granite summit four or five hundred feet higher than Shasta, but it is nearly snowless during the late summer, and is so feebly individualized that the traveler may search for it in vain among the many rival peaks crowded along the axis of the range to north and south of it, which all alike are crumbling residual masses brought into relief in the degradation of the general mass of the range.
The axis of the principal shaft was supported on a piston in a vessel of oil, which considerably diminished the friction, and it was so contrived as to be accurately regulated by means of a small forcing-pump.
Quotes with AXIS (3)
I have so much love for you, I could fill rooms with it. Buildings. You’re surrounded by it wherever you go, you walk through it, breathe it... it’s in your lungs, and under your tongue, and between your fingers and toes...” His mouth moved passionately over hers, urging her lips apart. It was a kiss to level mountains and shake stars from the sky. It was a kiss to make angels faint and demons weep... a passionate, demanding, soul-searing kiss that nearly knocked the earth of…
Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves - slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future.
Sometimes I think if we didn’t have these problems the whole world would stop spinning on her axis, we’d all stop spinning on our axises, axes, or whatever you want to call them, and then we’d have to settle into the nasty business of finding a way to be happy.
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, Daily Beast, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Rock & Roll, S&S, Slate, The Atlantic, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 529 times in crossword archives (1942–2025).