Axe (disambiguation)
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An axe (or ax) is a tool with a metal blade, commonly used to split wood, also historically used as a weapon.
Axe or ax may also refer to:
Brands
- Axe (brand), a brand of men's grooming products
- Armani Exchange or A|X, fashion line
Entertainment
- Ax (manga)
- Lisa, Lisa, a 1977 American horror film also known by the title Axe
- Le Couperet, a 2005 film whose English title is The Axe
- Axe (band), the rock band
- Axé music, a form of Brazilian popular music
- A slang term for some musical instruments: saxophone, trumpet, electric guitar, etc.
People
- Ax (surname)
- Ax, nickname of Bill Eadie, a WWF World Tag-Team Champion professional wrestler
- Larry Hennig, retired professional wrestler known as The Axe
- Samuel Axe, an English privateer in Dutch service during the early 17th century
- David Axelrod, advisor to US President Barack Obama, sometimes referred to as "Axe" or "The Axeman"
- Martin Axenrot, drummer for Opeth and Bloodbath
Places
- .ax, the Internet country code top-level domain of the Åland Islands
- Åland Islands, ISO 3166-1 country code
- Akrotiri and Dhekelia, FIPS 10-4 code
- River Axe (Bristol Channel), a river in the South of England that flows into the Bristol Channel
- River Axe (Lyme Bay), a river in the South of England that flows into Lyme Bay
Fictional characters
- Sam Axe, a character in the television series Burn Notice
- Aximili-Esgarrouth-Isthill, a fictional Animorphs character, an Andalite
Science and technology
- Alpha Chi Sigma (ΑΧΣ), a professional fraternity specializing in the field of chemistry
- AX register, a general-purpose 16-bit X86 register
- Microsoft Dynamics AX, an enterprise resource planning tool
- AXE telephone exchange, the name of telephone exchange by Ericsson
- Glaze3D, codenamed Axe, a graphics card
- aXe Spectral Extraction, astronomical spectroscopic data extraction software
- AXE method (chemistry), a method used in chemistry to determine the molecular geometry of simple molecules
Transport
- IATA code of Air Explore
- Mahindra Axe, a 4WD military vehicle
- Citroën AX, a French subcompact car
Other uses
- Axe-monies, ancient South American artifacts believed to have been used as currency
- A slang term for a bowling ball
- Paul Bunyan's Axe, a prize in college football
- Anime Expo, the largest anime convention in the United States
- Ismail ax, a note written in red ink found on the left arm of Cho Seung-hui at the time of the Virginia Tech Massacre
See also
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