Crossword-Solution: AXIS 4 letters, 409 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

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Word Word Type Definition
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.

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AXIS anagram SAXI, SIXA

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One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TEREA
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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.
Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992
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.
Plato's Republic Plato 2008
Anticlinal axis (Geol.), a line or ridge from which the strata slope downward on the two opposite sides.
Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Noah Webster 1995
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.
Steep Trails John Muir 1995
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.
Industrial Biography Samuel Smiles 2008

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…
Lisa Kleypas Tempt Me at Twilight
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.
Thich Nhat Hanh
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.
Daniel Clausen Ghosts of Nagasaki: Silence
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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).