ajax
see also: Ajax, AJAX
Pronunciation
  • IPA: /ˈeɪ.dʒæks/
Preposition
  1. (Polari) Nearby, over there
Noun

ajax

  1. (now, rare, historical) A toilet.
    • 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, III.13:
      I say this much of this action, that it is requisite we should remit the same unto certaine prescribed night-houres, and by custome (as I have done) force and subject our selves unto it; But not (as I have done), growing in yeeres, strictly tie himselfe to the care of a particular convenient place, and of a commodious Ajax or easie close-stoole for that purpose, and make it troublesome with long sitting and nice observation.
Noun

ajax

  1. (poker slang) An ace and a jack as a starting hand in Texas hold 'em.

Ajax
Pronunciation
  • IPA: /ˈeɪ.dʒæks/
Proper noun
  1. (Greek mythology) Either of two heroes of the Trojan War.
    • 1995, David Sacks, Oswyn Murray, A Dictionary of the Ancient Greek World, Oxford University Press, USA ISBN 9780195112061, page 11
      In the legend of the Trojan War, Ajax was king of Salamis and son of Telamon. After Achilles, he was the bravest Greek warrior at Troy. In Homer's epic poem the Iliad, Ajax engages in many combats for...
Translations
  • French: Ajax
  • German: Aias, Ajax
  • Italian: Aiace
  • Portuguese: Ájax
  • Russian: Ая́кс
  • Spanish: Áyax
Proper noun
  1. (computing) A group of techniques for creating interactive Web applications, in which applications can retrieve data from the server asynchronously in the background without interfering with the display and behavior of the existing page.
Proper noun
  1. A town in Ontario, Canada
    • 1994, Mike Filey, Toronto Sketches 3: The Way We Were, Dundurn ISBN 9781550022278, page 135
      In relative terms, the history of Ajax, Ontario, a town twenty-three miles east of Toronto, is short, spanning a little more than half a century. (Interestingly, to me at least, is the fact that the town is the same age as I am.).
  2. A ghost town in Utah
    • 1910, Forth, p. 829
      Seldom was the missionary more agreeably surprised than when the mail stage which had picked him up from the train at Ajax, Utah, drew up at an old ranch.
  3. An unincorporated community in South Dakota
    • 2000, Construction Into the Powder River Basin, Powder River Basin Expansion Project: Environmental Impact Statement, page 20
      Once across Spring Creek the branch line turns southeast and then southwest and proceeds toward Ajax, South Dakota.
  4. An unincorporated community in Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana.
    • 2016, Suzi Parron, Following the Barn Quilt Trail, Ohio University Press ISBN 9780804040693
      THE road north took us to Ajax, Louisiana, more of a crossroads than an actual town. The RV park sat just a minute or so from the interstate and miles from much else; a saw mill near the highway and a diner across the road were the only...
  5. An unincorporated community in West Virginia
  6. The Amsterdam football club AFC Ajax
Translations
  • German: Ajax; (usually) Ajax Amsterdam

AJAX
Proper noun
  1. (computing) Alternative form of Ajax



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