英语词汇“axle”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

An axle is a rod around which a wheel moves or rotates. The front wheels of your car sit on an axle, turning around it as the car moves.

Any kind of vehicle with wheels uses some kind of axle for those wheels to rotate on. Trucks, buses, and cars have axles, and so do lawnmowers and wagons and even bicycles. The original, Middle English word for axle was axle-tree, which came from a combination of the Old Norse word öxull and the Old English eax, both of which mean "axis," or "line around which a body rotates."

WORD FAMILY

axle: axles

USAGE EXAMPLES

To reflect their difference, in Hold Each Other, Axle uses the pronoun “she” while King uses “he”.

The Guardian(Dec 05, 2016)

Twenty feet away, his son, Andrew, lay under his modified racecar, intensely checking the front-right axle for his Turkey Derby run.

New York Times(Nov 18, 2016)

The gas tank was mounted behind the rear axle, leaving it vulnerable in a crash.

Seattle Times(Nov 16, 2016)

n a shaft on which a wheel rotates

Hypo|Hyper

dead axle

an axle that carries a wheel but without power to drive it

journal

the part of the axle contained by a bearing

driving axle, live axle

the axle of a self-propelled vehicle that provides the driving power

axletree

a dead axle on a carriage or wagon that has terminal spindles on which the wheels revolve

shaft

a long rod or pole (especially the handle of an implement or the body of a weapon like a spear or arrow)

单词	axle
释义	axle (once / 2880 pages) n An axle is a rod around which a wheel moves or rotates. The front wheels of your car sit on an axle, turning around it as the car moves. Any kind of vehicle with wheels uses some kind of axle for those wheels to rotate on. Trucks, buses, and cars have axles, and so do lawnmowers and wagons and even bicycles. The original, Middle English word for axle was axle-tree, which came from a combination of the Old Norse word öxull and the Old English eax, both of which mean "axis," or "line around which a body rotates." WORD FAMILY axle: axles USAGE EXAMPLES To reflect their difference, in Hold Each Other, Axle uses the pronoun “she” while King uses “he”. The Guardian(Dec 05, 2016) Twenty feet away, his son, Andrew, lay under his modified racecar, intensely checking the front-right axle for his Turkey Derby run. New York Times(Nov 18, 2016) The gas tank was mounted behind the rear axle, leaving it vulnerable in a crash. Seattle Times(Nov 16, 2016) n a shaft on which a wheel rotates Hypo\|Hyper dead axle an axle that carries a wheel but without power to drive it journal the part of the axle contained by a bearing driving axle, live axle the axle of a self-propelled vehicle that provides the driving power axletree a dead axle on a carriage or wagon that has terminal spindles on which the wheels revolve shaft a long rod or pole (especially the handle of an implement or the body of a weapon like a spear or arrow)
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