Axe vs. Slash

Axenoun

A tool for felling trees or chopping wood etc. consisting of a heavy head flattened to a blade on one side, and a handle attached to it.

Axenoun

An ancient weapon consisting of a head that has one or two blades and a long handle.

Axenoun

(informal) A dismissal or rejection.

Axenoun

A gigging musician's particular instrument, especially a guitar in rock music or a saxophone in jazz.

Axenoun

(finance) A position, interest, or reason in buying and selling stock, often with ulterior motives.

Axenoun

(archaic) The axle of a wheel.

Axeverb

(transitive) To fell or chop with an axe.

Axeverb

(transitive) To lay off, terminate or drastically reduce, especially in a rough or ruthless manner.

Axeverb

To furnish with an axle.

Axeverb

alternative form of ask

Axe

See Ax, Axman.

Axenoun

an edge tool with a heavy bladed head mounted across a handle

Axeverb

chop or split with an ax;

Axeverb

terminate;

Axenoun

a tool used for chopping wood, typically of iron with a steel edge and wooden handle

Axenoun

a measure intended to reduce costs drastically, especially one involving redundancies

Axenoun

a musical instrument used in popular music or jazz, especially a guitar or (originally) a saxophone.

Axeverb

end, cancel, or dismiss suddenly and ruthlessly

Axeverb

reduce (costs or services) drastically

Axeverb

cut or strike with an axe, especially violently or destructively

Axe

An axe (sometimes ax in American English; see spelling differences) is an implement that has been used for millennia to shape, split and cut wood, to harvest timber, as a weapon, and as a ceremonial or heraldic symbol. The axe has many forms and specialised uses but generally consists of an axe head with a handle, or helve.

Slashnoun

A slashing action or motion, particularly:

Slashnoun

A swift, broad, cutting stroke made by an edged weapon or whip.

Slashnoun

(cricket) A wild swinging strike of the bat.

Slashnoun

A hard swift lateral strike with a hockey or lacrosse stick, usually across another player's arms or legs.

Slashnoun

Any similar wide striking motion.

Slashnoun

(figuratively) A sharp reduction.

Slashnoun

A mark made by a slashing motion, particularly:

Slashnoun

A cut or laceration, often deep, made by an edged weapon or whip.

Slashnoun

(botany) A deep taper-pointed incision in a plant.

Slashnoun

Something resembling such a mark, particularly:

Slashnoun

(fashion) A slit in an outer garment exposing a lining or inner garment, usually of a contrasting color or design; any intentional long vertical cut in a garment. Clearing

Slashnoun

A clearing in a forest, (particularly) those made by logging, fire, or other violent action.

Slashnoun

The slash mark: the punctuation mark ⟨/⟩, sometimes inclusive of any mark produced by a similar slashing movement of the pen, as the backslash ⟨\⟩.

Slashnoun

Female genitalia.

Slashnoun

The loose woody debris remaining from a slash, the trimmings left while preparing felled trees for removal.

Slashnoun

clipping of slash fiction: fan fiction focused upon "shipping", or pairing, characters.

Slashnoun

A drink of something; a draft.

Slashnoun

A piss: an act of urination.

Slashnoun

(US) A swampy area; a swamp.

Slashnoun

(UK) nodot=1: a deep trough of finely-fractured culm or a circular or elliptical pocket of coal.

Slashverb

To cut or attempt to cut, particularly:

Slashverb

To cut with a swift broad stroke of an edged weapon.

Slashverb

To produce a similar wound with a savage strike of a whip.

Slashverb

(ice hockey) To strike swiftly and laterally with a hockey stick, usually across another player's arms or legs.

Slashverb

(figuratively) To reduce sharply.

Slashverb

(fashion) To create slashes in a garment.

Slashverb

(figuratively) To criticize cuttingly.

Slashverb

To strike violently and randomly, particularly:

Slashverb

(cricket) To swing wildly at the ball.

Slashverb

To move quickly and violently.

Slashverb

To crack a whip with a slashing motion.

Slashverb

To clear land, with violent action such as logging or brushfires or through grazing.

Slashverb

To write slash fiction.

Slashverb

To piss, to urinate.

Slashadverb

Used to note the sound or action of a slash.

Slashconjunction

Used to connect two or more identities in a list.

Slashconjunction

Used to list alternatives.

Slashverb

To cut by striking violently and at random; to cut in long slits.

Slashverb

To lash; to ply the whip to.

Slashverb

To crack or snap, as a whip.

Slashverb

To strike violently and at random, esp. with an edged instrument; to lay about one indiscriminately with blows; to cut hastily and carelessly.

Slashnoun

A long cut; a cut made at random.

Slashnoun

A large slit in the material of any garment, made to show the lining through the openings.

Slashnoun

Swampy or wet lands overgrown with bushes.

Slashnoun

A opening or gap in a forest made by wind, fire, or other destructive agency.

Slashnoun

a wound made by cutting;

Slashnoun

an open tract of land in a forest that is strewn with debris from logging (or fire or wind)

Slashnoun

a punctuation mark (/) used to separate related items of information

Slashnoun

a strong sweeping cut made with a sharp instrument

Slashverb

cut with sweeping strokes; as with an ax or machete

Slashverb

beat severely with a whip or rod;

Slashverb

cut open;

Slashverb

cut drastically;

Slashverb

move or stir about violently;