When I started to fix the language, I got wrapped around the axle.
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Axle
//ˈæksəl//
Synonyms for "axle" (14 found)
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Translations
135 translations across 65 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- ἄξων noun (the pin or spindle on which a wheel revolves, or which revolves with a wheel)
Armenian
2 entries- լիսեռ noun (the pin or spindle on which a wheel revolves, or which revolves with a wheel)
- լիսեռ noun (a transverse bar or shaft)
Assamese
2 entries- ডিলামাৰি noun (the pin or spindle on which a wheel revolves, or which revolves with a wheel)
- ধুৰা noun (the pin or spindle on which a wheel revolves, or which revolves with a wheel)
Avestan
2 entries- 𐬁𐬲𐬎𐬱 noun (the pin or spindle on which a wheel revolves, or which revolves with a wheel)
- 𐬁𐬲𐬎𐬱 noun (an axis)
Bashkir
2 entries- күсәр noun (the pin or spindle on which a wheel revolves, or which revolves with a wheel)
- күсәр noun (an axis)
Breton
1 entries- ahel noun (the pin or spindle on which a wheel revolves, or which revolves with a wheel)
Bulgarian
3 entries- вал noun (the pin or spindle on which a wheel revolves, or which revolves with a wheel)
- ок noun (a transverse bar or shaft)
- ос noun (the pin or spindle on which a wheel revolves, or which revolves with a wheel)
Burmese
1 entries- ဝင်ရိုး noun (the pin or spindle on which a wheel revolves, or which revolves with a wheel)
Catalan
1 entries- eix noun (the pin or spindle on which a wheel revolves, or which revolves with a wheel)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 車軸 /车轴 noun (a transverse bar or shaft)
Chuvash
1 entries- тӗнӗл noun (the pin or spindle on which a wheel revolves, or which revolves with a wheel)
Czech
1 entries- osa noun (an axis)
Danish
3 entries- akse noun (an axis)
- aksel noun (the pin or spindle on which a wheel revolves, or which revolves with a wheel)
- aksel noun (a transverse bar or shaft)
Daur
1 entries- tenggel noun (the pin or spindle on which a wheel revolves, or which revolves with a wheel)
Dutch
3 entries- as noun (the pin or spindle on which a wheel revolves, or which revolves with a wheel)
- as noun (an axis)
- spil noun (the pin or spindle on which a wheel revolves, or which revolves with a wheel)
Esperanto
2 entries- akso noun (the pin or spindle on which a wheel revolves, or which revolves with a wheel)
- akso noun (an axis)
Faroese
1 entries- aksil noun (the pin or spindle on which a wheel revolves, or which revolves with a wheel)
Finnish
3 entries- akseli noun (the pin or spindle on which a wheel revolves, or which revolves with a wheel)
- akseli noun (a transverse bar or shaft)
- akseli noun (an axis)
French
3 entries- axe noun (an axis)
- essieu noun (the pin or spindle on which a wheel revolves, or which revolves with a wheel)
- essieu noun (a transverse bar or shaft)
Galician
4 entries- eixe noun (the pin or spindle on which a wheel revolves, or which revolves with a wheel)
- eixe noun (a transverse bar or shaft)
- eixe noun (an axis)
- eixo noun (the pin or spindle on which a wheel revolves, or which revolves with a wheel)
German
2 entries- Achse noun (the pin or spindle on which a wheel revolves, or which revolves with a wheel)
- Welle noun (a transverse bar or shaft)
Hebrew
1 entries- סֶרֶן noun (the pin or spindle on which a wheel revolves, or which revolves with a wheel)
Hindi
2 entries- अक्ष noun (the pin or spindle on which a wheel revolves, or which revolves with a wheel)
- धुरी noun (the pin or spindle on which a wheel revolves, or which revolves with a wheel)
Hungarian
3 entries- tengely noun (the pin or spindle on which a wheel revolves, or which revolves with a wheel)
- tengely noun (a transverse bar or shaft)
- tengely noun (an axis)
Icelandic
1 entries- öxull noun (the pin or spindle on which a wheel revolves, or which revolves with a wheel)
Ido
1 entries- axo noun (an axis)
Indonesian
1 entries- gandar noun (the pin or spindle on which a wheel revolves, or which revolves with a wheel)
Ingrian
1 entries- telki noun (the pin or spindle on which a wheel revolves, or which revolves with a wheel)
Irish
3 entries- acastóir noun (the pin or spindle on which a wheel revolves, or which revolves with a wheel)
- crann fearsaide noun (a transverse bar or shaft)
- fearsaid noun (a transverse bar or shaft)
Italian
3 entries- asse noun (the pin or spindle on which a wheel revolves, or which revolves with a wheel)
- asse noun (a transverse bar or shaft)
- asse noun (an axis)
Karachay-Balkar
1 entries- кёчер агъач noun (the pin or spindle on which a wheel revolves, or which revolves with a wheel)
Kazakh
3 entries- белағаш noun (the pin or spindle on which a wheel revolves, or which revolves with a wheel)
- белдік noun (the pin or spindle on which a wheel revolves, or which revolves with a wheel)
- білік noun (the pin or spindle on which a wheel revolves, or which revolves with a wheel)
Khmer
1 entries- ភ្លៅ noun (the pin or spindle on which a wheel revolves, or which revolves with a wheel)
Korean
1 entries- 차축 noun (a transverse bar or shaft)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- ок noun (the pin or spindle on which a wheel revolves, or which revolves with a wheel)
Latin
2 entries- axis noun (the pin or spindle on which a wheel revolves, or which revolves with a wheel)
- axis noun (an axis)
Latvian
2 entries- ass noun (the pin or spindle on which a wheel revolves, or which revolves with a wheel)
- ass noun (an axis)
Lower Sorbian
1 entries- wós noun (the pin or spindle on which a wheel revolves, or which revolves with a wheel)
Macedonian
3 entries- оска noun (an axis)
- осовина noun (the pin or spindle on which a wheel revolves, or which revolves with a wheel)
- осовина noun (a transverse bar or shaft)
Malay
2 entries- gandar noun (the pin or spindle on which a wheel revolves, or which revolves with a wheel)
- gandar roda noun (the pin or spindle on which a wheel revolves, or which revolves with a wheel)
Mongolian
1 entries- тэнхлэг noun (the pin or spindle on which a wheel revolves, or which revolves with a wheel)
Māori
2 entries- kakau noun (a transverse bar or shaft)
- paewīra noun (the pin or spindle on which a wheel revolves, or which revolves with a wheel)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- aksel noun (the pin or spindle on which a wheel revolves, or which revolves with a wheel)
- aksel noun (a transverse bar or shaft)
Norwegian Nynorsk
2 entries- aksel noun (the pin or spindle on which a wheel revolves, or which revolves with a wheel)
- aksel noun (a transverse bar or shaft)
Old Norse
1 entries- ǫxull noun (the pin or spindle on which a wheel revolves, or which revolves with a wheel)
Ottoman Turkish
3 entries- ایك noun (the pin or spindle on which a wheel revolves, or which revolves with a wheel)
- قازیق noun (the pin or spindle on which a wheel revolves, or which revolves with a wheel)
- قطب noun (the pin or spindle on which a wheel revolves, or which revolves with a wheel)
Persian
4 entries- آسه noun (the pin or spindle on which a wheel revolves, or which revolves with a wheel)
- آسه noun (an axis)
- اکسل noun (a transverse bar or shaft)
- محور noun (the pin or spindle on which a wheel revolves, or which revolves with a wheel)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- Auss noun (the pin or spindle on which a wheel revolves, or which revolves with a wheel)
Polish
2 entries- oś noun (the pin or spindle on which a wheel revolves, or which revolves with a wheel)
- oś noun (an axis)
Portuguese
4 entries- eixo noun (the pin or spindle on which a wheel revolves, or which revolves with a wheel)
- eixo noun (a transverse bar or shaft)
- eixo noun (an axis)
- veio noun (a transverse bar or shaft)
Romanian
4 entries- ax noun (the pin or spindle on which a wheel revolves, or which revolves with a wheel)
- ax noun (a transverse bar or shaft)
- ax noun (an axis)
- osie noun (the pin or spindle on which a wheel revolves, or which revolves with a wheel)
Russian
4 entries- вал noun (the pin or spindle on which a wheel revolves, or which revolves with a wheel)
- ось noun (the pin or spindle on which a wheel revolves, or which revolves with a wheel)
- ось noun (a transverse bar or shaft)
- ось noun (an axis)
Sanskrit
1 entries- अक्ष noun (the pin or spindle on which a wheel revolves, or which revolves with a wheel)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- osòvina noun (the pin or spindle on which a wheel revolves, or which revolves with a wheel)
- osòvina noun (a transverse bar or shaft)
- ȏs noun (an axis)
- ȏsa noun (an axis)
Slovak
1 entries- os noun (the pin or spindle on which a wheel revolves, or which revolves with a wheel)
Spanish
4 entries- axis noun (an axis)
- eje noun (the pin or spindle on which a wheel revolves, or which revolves with a wheel)
- eje noun (a transverse bar or shaft)
- eje noun (an axis)
Swahili
1 entries- ekseli noun (the pin or spindle on which a wheel revolves, or which revolves with a wheel)
Swedish
1 entries- axel noun (the pin or spindle on which a wheel revolves, or which revolves with a wheel)
Tagalog
1 entries- gargaran noun (the pin or spindle on which a wheel revolves, or which revolves with a wheel)
Tatar
1 entries- күчәр noun (the pin or spindle on which a wheel revolves, or which revolves with a wheel)
Tocharian B
1 entries- ṣem noun (the pin or spindle on which a wheel revolves, or which revolves with a wheel)
Turkish
3 entries- dingil noun (the pin or spindle on which a wheel revolves, or which revolves with a wheel)
- eksen noun (the pin or spindle on which a wheel revolves, or which revolves with a wheel)
- şaft noun (a transverse bar or shaft)
Upper Sorbian
1 entries- wóska noun (the pin or spindle on which a wheel revolves, or which revolves with a wheel)
Welsh
2 entries- echel noun (the pin or spindle on which a wheel revolves, or which revolves with a wheel)
- echel noun (an axis)
Yiddish
1 entries- אַקס noun (the pin or spindle on which a wheel revolves, or which revolves with a wheel)
Sample sentences
10 total sentences available.
The axle is broken.
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The axle of the car wobbled and would soon cause further damage.
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The axle is out of true.
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