Find the synonyms or antonyms of a word
List of synonyms from "awoken" to synonyms from "aye"
Discover all the synonyms available for the terms axioms, axes, ax job, axis, axilla, ax to grind and many more. Click on one of the words below and go directly to the synonyms associated with it.
Definition of the day : « axis »
- noun point around which something revolves
- At last I heard him revolving on his axis down the corkscrew staircase.
- Extract from : « Wilfrid Cumbermede » by George MacDonald
- And (b) what proof is there that the axis of the world revolves at all?
- Extract from : « Timaeus » by Plato
- For motion is either change of substance, or motion on an axis, or from one place to another.
- Extract from : « Parmenides » by Plato
- The motion of the earth round its axis, and round the sun, makes the day, and the year.
- Extract from : « Nature » by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The axis of vision is not coincident with the axis of things, and so they appear not transparent but opake.
- Extract from : « Nature » by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Izanagi struck his tall spear in the ground making it the axis of the world.
- Extract from : « Japanese Fairy World » by William Elliot Griffis
- I can halt, for a brief moment only, the whirl of the earth about its axis.
- Extract from : « Astounding Stories of Super-Science July 1930 » by Various
- There was a great wheel, which revolved on an axis, like a vertical mill wheel.
- Extract from : « Rollo in Paris » by Jacob Abbott
- Then he turned a laughing face upon them, moving slowly on his axis.
- Extract from : « Aunt Rachel » by David Christie Murray
- The plate will consequently turn on this axis, as on a hinge.
- Extract from : « The Teacher » by Jacob Abbott