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Axel
Axel
See also: axel
English
Proper noun
Axel
- A male given name in quiet use since the 19th century.
Translations
male given name
Anagrams
Danish
Proper noun
Axel
- A male given name, a spelling variant of Aksel.
References
- Danskernes Navne, based on CPR data: 15 602 males with the given name Axel (compared to 20 269 named Aksel) have been registered in Denmark between about 1890 (=the population alive in 1967) and January 2005, with the frequency peak in the 1900s decade. Accessed on 19 June 2011.
Swedish
Etymology
From Danish Aksel, Axel. First recorded as a given name in Sweden in 1371.
Proper noun
Axel
- A male given name.
Related terms
- (surnames) Axelsson
References
- Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn, Almqvist & Wiksell 1996, ISBN 91-21-10937-0
- Statistiska centralbyrån and Sture Allén, Staffan Wåhlin, Förnamnsboken, Norstedts 1995, ISBN 9119551622: 56 075 males with the given name Axel (compared to 1 446 named Aksel) living in Sweden on December 31st, 2010, with the frequency peak in the 1910s. Accessed on 19 June 2011.
axel
axel
See also: Axel
English
Diagram showing the performance of an axel (skating manouevre)
Noun
axel (plural axels)
- Misspelling of axle.
- 1755, "A Country Gentleman", A New System of Agriculture; Or, A Plain, Easy, and Demonſtrative Method of ſpeedily growing Rich, page 177,
- This end of the Axel is to be faſten'd into a Wheel, exactly like thoſe, which are us'd in many Places, for the roaſting Meat.
- 1900, Municipal Reports of the City of Grand Rapids, Michigan, page 85,
- Ten 4-wheel hose wagons, three with ballbearing axels and one with roller-bearing axels, all manufactured in the city.
- 1944, Private and Local Acts Passed by the Legislature of Wisconsin, Publisher not identified, page 627,
- The gross weight on any 2 or more axels shall not exceed 26,000 pounds plus 1,000 pounds for each foot of distance measured longitudinally to the nearest foot between the foremost and rearmost of the axels under consideration.
- 1755, "A Country Gentleman", A New System of Agriculture; Or, A Plain, Easy, and Demonſtrative Method of ſpeedily growing Rich, page 177,
Etymology 2
From Axel (“a given name”), after Norwegian skater Axel Rudolf Paulsen (1855-1938), who in 1882 became the first to perform the jump.
Noun
axel (plural axels)
- (figure skating) A jump that includes one (or more than one) complete turn and a half turn while in the air.
- 1991, Harvard Magazine, Volume 94, page 44,
- Wylie, however, landed his Olympic axels beautifully and electrified the crowd as he capped a skating career that began at age three in Aspen, Colorado, when he followed two older sisters onto the ice.
- 1997, Beverley Smith, A Year in Figure Skating, page 115,
- Men had to do triple Axels or at least attempt them with tenacity.
- 2005, Canadian Journal of Applied Physiology, Volume 30, page 746,
- […] King et al. (1994) and King (1997) compared single, double, and triple axels of junior and senior level skaters; Albert and Miller (1996) compared single and double axels of “good” figure skaters; […] .
- 1991, Harvard Magazine, Volume 94, page 44,
Synonyms
- (figure skating jump): axel jump
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Anagrams
Swedish
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Old Swedish axl, from Old Norse ǫxl, from Proto-Germanic *ahslō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱs-.
Noun
axel c
Declension
Declension of axel
Related terms
Etymology 2
From Old Swedish axul, from Old Norse ǫxull. Related to Latin axis.
Noun
axel c
- an axis; an imagined line about which something rotates
- an axle; a rod around which a wheel turns
- a driveshaft; a rotating rod which transfers torque from a motor to a place where it can be applied
- (mathematics) an axis; as in coordinate axis
- Den reella axeln
- The real axis
- Den reella axeln
- a jump in figure skating with one (or more) and a half turns in the air.
Declension
Declension of axel