sax
To cut or slash with a sharp instrumentTo cut or slash with a sharp instrument; incise; scarify.
» Tom wanted to buy a soprano sax, but couldn't afford one.
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2 senses(UK, dialectal, transitive)To cut or slash with a sharp instrument; incise; scarify.
To play the saxophone
Examples
7 sentencesTom wanted to buy a soprano sax, but couldn't afford one.
Tom plays the tenor sax and Mary plays the alto sax.
The baritone sax that Tom wanted to buy was way too expensive for him.
Tom has a sax.
I play the tenor sax.
Origin
From Middle English sax, sex, from Old English seax (“a knife, hip-knife, an instrument foFrom Middle English sax, sex, from Old English seax (“a knife, hip-knife, an instrument for cutting, a short sword, dirk, dagger”), from Proto-West Germanic *sahs, from Proto-Germanic *sahsą (“stone chip, knife”), from Proto-Indo-European *sek- (“to cut”). Doublet of seax and zax.
Clipping of saxophone. Distantly related to etymology 1 above, because the “Sax” surname is a cognate.
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Forms
saxes, saxing, saxed, saxedLessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.