Synonyms for axis
ˈæk sɪs; ˈæk sizax·is

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1. axis2

   Synonyms:
   Axis Powers

2. Axisnoun

   The alliance group before and during World War II consisting of Germany, Italy, Japan, and allied countries.

   Synonyms:
   spotted deer, cheetal, chital, axis deer, chital deer, Axis Powers

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:1.0 / 1 vote

1. axisnoun

   a straight line through a body or figure that satisfies certain conditions

   Synonyms:
   axis of rotation, bloc, axis vertebra

2. axisnoun

   the main stem or central part about which plant organs or plant parts such as branches are arranged

   Synonyms:
   axis of rotation, bloc, axis vertebra

3. Axisnoun

   in World War II the alliance of Germany and Italy in 1936 which later included Japan and other nations

   "the Axis opposed the Allies in World War II"

   Synonyms:
   axis of rotation, bloc, axis vertebra

4. bloc, axisnoun

   a group of countries in special alliance

   Synonyms:
   axis of rotation, bloc, axis vertebra

5. axis, axis vertebranoun

   the 2nd cervical vertebra; serves as a pivot for turning the head

   Synonyms:
   axis of rotation, bloc, axis vertebra

6. axis, axis of rotationnoun

   the center around which something rotates

   Synonyms:
   axis of rotation, bloc, axis vertebra

Matched Categories

1. • Alliance
   • Cervical Vertebra
   • Line
   • Stem

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. axisnoun

   Synonyms:
   shaft, spindle, arbor

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 0 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "axis":

   shaft, centreline, axle, axe, centerline, axes, osu, asse, osi, spindle, shafts, focus, linchpin, axa, countershaft, centrepiece, axles, route, thrust, strand, backbone

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MDRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. axis

   Synonyms:
   C2, see there
   

2. axis

   Synonyms:
   Anatomy C2, epistropheus, second vertebral bone, vertebra dentata

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1. Rachel Zoe:

   As for working out, when I can, I love using my LIT AXIS portable training system, it’s the chicest and the fact that I can take it anywhere is game-changing.

2. Dennis McCarthy:

   If you're a really good passer in football, you line up the axis of rotation with the axis of symmetry of the football, and it doesn't wobble.

3. D. W. Brogan:

   For Americans war is almost all of the time a nuisance, and military skill is a luxury like Mah-Jongg. But when the issue is brought home to them, war becomes as important, for the necessary period, as business or sport. And it is hard to decide which is likely to be the more ominous for the Axis -- an American decision that this is sport, or that it is business.

4. Jorge Luis Borges:

   Literature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple reason that a single book is not. A book is not an isolated entity: it is a narration, an axis of innumerable narrations. One literature differs from another, either before or after it, not so much because of the text as for the manner in which it is read.

5. Fox News:

   What worries me a good bit, is how these despotic regimes are emboldened to push back against the United States, we need to send a strong message to our adversaries, and to this new axis of evil of Russia, China, Iran and North Korea that we are going to push back on them and we will not let them win.