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English meaning

  • arbor noun A shaded garden structure covered with climbing plants, used as a place to sit.
  • axel noun A figure-skating jump in which the skater takes off from the outside edge of one skate, rotates one and a half times (or more) in the air, and lands on the opposite foot.
  • axis noun An imaginary straight line around which something rotates or is arranged symmetrically.
  • axle noun The rod or shaft that a wheel turns on, or that turns together with a pair of wheels.
  • shaft noun A long, narrow, straight part of a tool, weapon, or machine — such as a handle, pole, or rotating rod that transmits power.
  • spindle noun A slender rod used for spinning fiber into thread, or more generally, any rod or axis that something turns on.
  • staff noun The people who work for an organization.

Senses

akseli is used for these senses in English:

  • Axel A en given name in quiet use since the 19th century.
  • arbor An axis or shaft supporting a rotating part on a lathe.
  • axis (botany) The main stem or central part about which organs or plant parts such as branches are arranged
  • axletree A bar or beam of wood or iron, connecting the opposite wheels of a carriage, on the ends of which the wheels revolve.
  • spindle A rod which turns, or on which something turns.
  • staff (engineering) An arbor, as of a wheel or a pinion of a watch.

arbor — full definition

  1. noun A shaded garden structure covered with climbing plants, used as a place to sit.
  2. noun A rotating shaft or spindle in a machine, such as a lathe, that supports a moving part.

axel — full definition

  1. noun A figure-skating jump in which the skater takes off from the outside edge of one skate, rotates one and a half times (or more) in the air, and lands on the opposite foot.
  2. verb To perform an axel jump.
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