Coax

Definition: Coax

Coax

Noun

1. A transmission line for high-frequency signals.

Verb

1. Influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering; "He palavered her into going along".

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Date "coax" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references)

Computing

Electrical Engineering

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coax

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Synonyms: Coax

Endearment

Verb: caress, fondle, pet, dandle; pat, pat on the head, pat on the cheek; chuck under the chin, smile upon, coax, wheedle, cosset, coddle, cockle; make of, make much of; cherish, foster, kill with kindness.

Flattery

Verb: flatter, praise to the skies, puff; wheedle, cajole, glaver, coax; fawn upon, faun upon; humor, gloze, soothe, pet, coquet, slaver, butter; jolly; bespatter, beslubber, beplaster, beslaver; lay it on thick, overpraise; earwig, cog, collogue; truckle to, pander to, pandar to, suck up to, kiss the ass of, pay court to; court; creep into the good graces of, curry favor with, hang on the sleeve of; fool to the top of one;s bent; lick the dust.

Motive

Tempt, seduce, overpersuade, entice, allure, captivate, fascinate, bewitch, carry away, charm, conciliate, wheedle, coax, lure; inveigle; tantalize; cajole; (deceive).

Crosswords: Coax

I laughed at all of your jokes my love you didn't need to coax (MAGGIE MAY; performing artist: Rod Stewart)

My love you didn't need to coax ("Maggie May"; performing artist: Rod Stewart)

Coax Me (1919)

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Books

• Personal Communications for Coax, Lan and Wan Users (reference)

• Rattling, Calling and Decoying Whitetails: How to Consistently Coax Big Bucks into Range (reference)

  (more book examples)

High Tech

• Belkin Cable Tester 10/100BT & Coax W/ Terminator (reference)

• Epson Coax I/F Board Type B For 24Pin Wide/Narr Fx 870/1170 Laser (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

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Health

Scientists are developing strategies to coax defective CFTR to the cell membrane and to stimulate its activity. (references)

Economic History

Romania

The substitute for Romtelecom's phone lines is coax cable. (references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "coax": beaded coax ♦ coax a smile out of smb. ♦ coax cable ♦ coax out of ♦ coax smth. out of smb. ♦ hybrid Fiber Coax. Additional references.

Albanian

zhvat (bleed, cadge, claw back, devour, extort, filch, fleece, hog, Rob, spoil, squeeze, Winkle, worm, wrest), marr me të mirë (Blandish, propitiate, wheedle), lajkatoj (adulate, Blandish, blarney, butter up, cajole, flatter, make up to, palaver, play up to, smarm, soft soap, wheedle), i mbush mendjen (convince, inveigle, persuade, prevail). (various references)

Arabic 

‏نال (acquire, attain, carve, come by, gain, get, get the best of, take, win), ‏تملق (adulate, blandish, blarney, butter, butter up, cajole, cajolery, coaxing, compliment, con, court, cringe, curry favor with, curry favour with, fawn, flatter, flattery, incense, ingratiate oneself, insinuation, kowtow, lick his boots, make, mawkish, oiliness, palaver, servilism, soap, soft soap, subservience, suck up to, sweet talk, taffy, toady, wheedle), ‏إنتزع بالملاطفة. (various references)

Bulgarian 

убеждавам (admonish, argue, assure, convince, exhort, induce, lead, persuade, press, prevail, satisfy, talk over, urge, win), лаская (adulate, beslaver, blarney, cajole, carny, flatter, incense, jolly, palaver, sawder, soap, soft soap, sugar), примамвам (decoy, entice, hold forth, inveigle, lure, snare, tempt, train, wile), придумвам (talk over, talk round, woo). (various references)

Chinese 

�"�骗 (Coaxed, Coaxing, wangle, wangling, Wheedle, Wheedled, Wheedling), �"� (deceive, resound with laughter). (various references)

Czech

umluvit (stipulate, talk down), uchlácholit (hush, mollify, propitiate, quieten, soothe), přemluvit (bring round, cajole, persuade, prevail, talk, talk round). (various references)

Danish

coaxialkabel (coaxial cable), coax (coaxial cable), koax (coaxial cable), koaksialkabel (coaxial cable). (various references)

Dutch

coaxkabel (coaxial cable), coaxiale kabel (coax cable, coaxial cable). (various references)

Farsi 

نوازش کردن (Baby, Coddle, Cuddle, Pat, Pet, Stroke), چرب زبانی کردن , ریشخندکردن (Bamboozle, Blarney, Cajole, Lout, Wheedle). (various references)

Finnish

lirkuttaa, koaksiaalikaapeli (coaxial cable), houkutella (allure, attract, decoy, entice, inveigle, lure, persuade, tempt). (various references)

French

cajolerie (coaxing), cajoler, câble concentrique (coax cable, coaxial cable), câble coaxial (coax cable, coaxial cable), obtenir (come by), amadouer. (various references)

German

schmeicheln (adulate, Blandish, blare, bootlick, butter up, cajole, dissemble, flatter, soften up, to flatter), Koaxialkabel (coaxial cable). (various references)

Greek 

καλοπιάνω (cajole, fawn, lick his boots, wheedle), καταφέρνω (chat up, contrive, get round, manage, tide over), παροτρύνω (exhort, goad, impel, promote, urge), ομοαξονικό καλώδιο (coaxial cable). (various references)

Hebrew 

לש�"ל (cajole, entice, persuade, seduce, tempt, wheedle). (various references)

Hungarian

csalogat (bait, inveigle, lure, to allure, to bait, to decoy, to draw on, to entice, to lure, to solicit, to toll), csábít (allure, attract, draw, entice, lure, tempt, to allure, to beguile, to entice, to gouge, to lure, to solicit, to wile, wile). (various references)

Indonesian

memburas (talk about), membujuk (cajole, candied, canvass, endlong, gloze, persuade, talk a person into, wile), gubel (urge). (various references)

Italian

coassiale (coaxial), cavo coassialo (coax cable, coaxial cable), persuadere (argue, bring, cajole, convince, convince oneself, get, induce, persuade, persuade oneself, win), indurre (bring, cause, induce, prevail), blandire (Blandish, soothe). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

強請る (to coax, to demand, to solicit, to tease), 丸め込む (to coax, to seduce). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ね� る (to coax, to demand, to solicit, to tease), まるめ�"む (to coax, to seduce). (various references)

Manx

breigey (allure, beguile, blandish, cajole, cajolery, decoy, entice, enticement, inveigle, inveiglement, lure, persuade, seduce, seduction, wheedle). (various references)

Norwegian

overtale (induce). (various references)

Pig Latin

oaxcay.(various references)

Portuguese

cabo coaxial (coaxial cable), persuadir (advise, bring, cajole, cog, convince, counsel, dispose, get around, induce, insinuate, lead, move, persuade, post, seduce, talk into, urge, woo), lisonjear (beslobber, bespatter, blandish, butter, butter up, cajole, cog, flatter, jolly, lackey, lacquey, palaver, soft-soap, wheedle), influenciar (actuate, bias, bring, dominate, have an affect on, induce, influence, prepossess, talk, weigh), aliciar (attract, entice, recruit, tout). (various references)

Romanian

convinge (blarney, bring, bring over, convince, cozen into, determine, draw, get, induce, persuade, reason, satisfy, settle), cãpãta (acquire, assume, come by, come in for, come into, contract, derive, earn, find, get, make, obtain, pick up, purchase, receive, take on), cãdelniţa (cense, extol, flatter), obţine (achieve, acquire, attain, come by, elicit, find it easy to, get, obtain, poll, procure, realize, secure, take, whip), linguşi (blandish, butter, cajole, flannel, flatter, jolly, palaver, toady, wheedle). (various references)

Russian 

уговаривать (expostulate, talk into), увещевать (exhort, expostulate, remonstrate, remonstrate with), убеждать (admonish, carry conviction, convince, drive home, exhort, gain over, get, induce, persuade, reason, reassure, remonstrate, satisfy), задобрить (cajole, wheedle), задабривать (blandish, jolly, play ball). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

privoleti (inveigle), nagovoriti (blab, blandish, cajole, inveigle, over-persuade, persuade, prevail, talk into). (various references)

Spanish

halagar (blandish, butter up, cajole, flatter, lead on, please, show affection to). (various references)

Swedish

smickra (beslobber, blandish, butter up, cajole, Carney, carny, flannel, flatter, palaver, snow, tickle), lirka (ease). (various references)

Turkish

tatlı sözlerle kandırmak (sweet talk, wheedle), ikna etmek (argue, argue smb. into smth., assure, bring, bring over, bring round, cajole, convince, convince smb. of smth., dispose, draw, entice, fast-talk, have a way with, induce, influence, interest, jolly, persuade, prevail on, prevail upon, satisfy, sell smb. on, wheedle, win, win smb. round), gönlünü almak (appease, blandish, conciliate, mollify, placate, propitiate, soften), dil dökmek (blandish, sweet talk, wheedle), dil dökerek elde etmek (coax smth. out of smb.). (various references)

Ukrainian

виманювати (cajole, chouse, work), задобрювати (placate), підлесник (bootlicker, courtier, flatterer, pickthank, sycophant, toad, toady, wriggler), підлеслива розмова. (various references)

blandior, eliciendum, elicit, elicuit. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "coax": coaxal, coaxed, coaxer, coaxers, coaxes, coaxial, coaxially, coaxing. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Coax" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Caex, calax, cao, capax, caux, cax, caxy, Ceaux, ceaz, cedax, ceux, chax, choix, clax, Cloxam, coa, coab, coad, coae, coaf, coai, coak, coam, coan, Coar, coas, coav, coaxe, coaxi, codax, coix, colax, corax, Coraxi, coux, coxa, coxae, coxal, coxy, cusx, ecotax, koax, moax, oax, ocao, royaux, soax, soxa, toax, woax. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: coxa.

-1 letter: cox, oca.

-2 letters: ax, ox.

+1 letter: coxae, coxal.

+2 letters: anoxic, axonic, boxcar, claxon, coaxal, coaxed, coaxer, coaxes, oxalic, oxcart.

+3 letters: boxcars, cashbox, chamoix, claxons, coalbox, coannex, coaxers, coaxial, coaxing, coteaux, coxalgy, exactor, exocarp, exotica, oxcarts, oxyacid, toxical.

+4 letters: acetoxyl, anorexic, anoxemic, cacomixl, carboxyl, chronaxy, couteaux, coxalgia, coxalgic, coxswain, exaction, exactors, exocarps, exogamic, matchbox, maxicoat, morceaux, oxidasic, oxyacids, saucebox, toxaemic, toxicant, xylocarp.