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# axle

noun (axle, axles)

«axle» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

An axle is a rod or bar that goes through the centre of a wheel, or joins two wheels, so the wheels can turn. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/axle/#m1)

### In the lessons

In science and technology lessons, pupils learn about wheels and axles as a simple machine that makes moving loads easier; they build model cars with straws as axles. Bikes, cars, trains, carts and skateboards have axles. Phrases: wheel and axle, front axle, back axle.

### Examples

- The wheels of the toy car turn on a thin metal axle. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/axle/#x1)
- A wheel and axle is a simple machine. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/axle/#x2)
- We used a straw and a skewer to make an axle. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/axle/#x3)
- The cart broke because its wooden axle snapped. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/axle/#x4)
- A car has a front axle and a rear axle. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/axle/#x5)
- Oil the axle so the wheels turn smoothly. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/axle/#x6)

### Note

Countable: axles. Homophone trap: «axle» sounds like «axel», a jump in figure skating. Do not confuse with «axis», an imaginary line something spins around (like the Earth's axis).

## In Jewish tradition

In Kings it means the rod on which the wheels of the Temple's bronze stands turned.

**Interpretation.** These were part of the carts that held the basins in Solomon's Temple. Tradition reads them as showing the great care and skill put into the Temple.

### Examples

- And every base had four brazen wheels, and axles of brass; and the four feet thereof had undersetters; beneath the laver were the undersetters molten, with wreaths at the side of each. (Prophets 1KI.7.30, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/axle/#x1)

### Note

Countable: axles. Homophone trap: «axle» sounds like «axel», a jump in figure skating. Do not confuse with «axis», an imaginary line something spins around (like the Earth's axis).

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «axle» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/axle/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«axle» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/axle.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «axle» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/axle/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«axle» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/axle.html) on Mova free.