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ax | router |

As a proper noun ax

is .

As a noun router is

router (a device that connects local area networks to form a larger internet).

ax

English

Etymology 1

See .

Noun

(es)
  • (label)

    • Verb

    (es)

    • Etymology 2

    (etyl) acsian, showing metathesis from ascian. The regular literary form until circa 1600.

    Verb

    (es)
  • * 1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. Bible , Acts I:
    • When they were come togedder, they axed off hym, sayinge: Master wilt thou at this tyme restore agayne the kyngdom of israhel?
  • * 1979 , (Verna Mae Slone), What My Heart Wants to Tell , Kentucky 1988, p. 18:
  • *:‘I axed him if he knowed the way and he said he had not fergitten the lay of the land.’
    • English two-letter words English terms with multiple etymologies ----

    router

    English

    (wikipedia router)

    Etymology 1

    (route).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Someone who routes or directs items from one location to another.
    • The router directed the movement of the company's trucks.
  • * {{quote-book, 1930, Edwin A. Godley and Alexander Kaylin, Control of Retail Store Operations citation
    • , passage=When the router receives the package, he places the route number on it as well as on the triplicate part of the attached salescheck.}}
  • * {{quote-book, 1963, Louis J. von Rago, Production Analysis and Control citation
    • , passage=Obviously, the production control department might consist of one man or it might occupy a score of production control experts: routers , schedulers, expediters, and dispatchers.}}
  • * {{quote-book, 1990, Mary Kay Allen and Omar Keith Helferich, Putting Expert Systems to Work in Logistics citation
    • , passage=The system benefits include reduced delivery costs, increased vehicle use, and improved route decision making by dispatchers and routers .}}
  • (telecommunications) Any device that directs packets of information using the equivalent of Open Systems Interconnection]] layer 3 (network layer) information. Most commonly used in reference to [[IP, Internet Protocol routers.
  • (Internet) A device that connects local area networks to form a larger internet by, at minimum, selectively passing those datagrams having a destination IP address to the network which is able to deliver them to their destination; a network gateway.
    • The router was configured to forward packets outside of a certain range of IP addresses to its internet uplink port.
  • (electronics, electronic design automation) In integrated circuit or printed circuit board design, an algorithm for adding all wires needed to properly connect all of the placed components while obeying all design rules.
    • See also
    * firewall *

    Etymology 2

    (rout).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A power tool used in carpentry for cutting grooves.
    • He made an attractive edge on the table with a router .
  • A plane made like a spokeshave, for working the inside edges of circular sashes.
  • A plane with a hooked tool protruding far below the sole, for smoothing the bottom of a cavity.
    • See also
    * (wood router)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to hollow out or cut using a router power tool.
  • * 1952 , John Hooper, Percy A. Wells, Modern Cabinetwork, Furniture and Fitments , page 132,
    • An alternative is shown in which the carcase ends are grooved by routering .
  • * 2000 , Ernest Joyce, Alan Peters, Patrick Spielman, Encyclopedia of Furniture Making , page 290,
    • Figures 276: 10, 11 are typical sliding flush door pulls, the former routered' out, but the latter can be turned in a lathe, while 276:12 is an oblong ' routered version.
  • * 2007 , Laurie J. Gage, Rebecca S. Duerr, Hand-Rearing Birds , page 352,
    • Routered holes may also be filled with diluted maple syrup (1 part syrup to 9 parts water) to create a sap well for sapsuckers.

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