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Definitions: Lax |
LaxAdjective1. Lacking in rigor or strictness; "such lax and slipshod ways are no longer acceptable"; "lax in attending classes"; "slack in maintaining discipline". 2. (phonetics) pronounced with muscles relatively relaxed (e.g., the vowel sound in `bet'). 3. Not taut or rigid; not stretched or held tight; "a lax rope". 4. Lacking in strength or firmness or resilience; "flaccid muscles"; "took his lax hand in hers"; "gave a limp handshake"; "a limp gesture as if waving away all desire to know" G.K.Chesterton; "a slack grip". 5. Tolerant or lenient; "indulgent parents risk spoiling their children"; "procedures are lax and discipline is weak"; "too soft on the children". 6. Emptying easily or excessively; "loose bowels". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "lax" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
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Computing | LAX LAnguage eXample. A toy language used to illustrate compiler design. ["Compiler Construction", W.M. Waite et al, Springer 1984]. (1994-12-07). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
Science | Loosely arranged. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
LAX | English | Lanternfish | Food & Agriculture, Biology & Biotechnology |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: LaxSynonyms: flaccid (adj), indulgent (adj), lenient (adj), limp (adj), loose (adj), slack (adj), soft (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonym: tense (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Coherence | Adjective: nonadhesive, immiscible; incoherent, detached, loose, baggy, slack, lax, relaxed, flapping, streaming; disheveled; segregated, like grains of sand unconsolidated; uncombined; |
Feebleness | Careless, slovenly, loose, lax (negligent); slipshod, slipslop; inexact; puerile, childish; flatulent; rambling; (diffuse). |
Laxity | Adjective: lax, loose; slack; remiss; (careless); weak. |
Undueness | Relax; (be lax); misbehave; (vice); misbecome. |
Vice | Weak, frail, lax, infirm, imperfect; indiscrete; demoralizing, degrading. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Lax |
| English words defined with "lax": Buphthalmum salicifolium ♦ California bluebell, Camphor tree, Cephalanthera rubra ♦ flaccid ♦ Heuchera americana ♦ indulgent ♦ lawless, laxity, laxness, lenient, lesser twayblade, limp, Listera cordata ♦ open ♦ Phacelia campanularia ♦ red helleborine, remissness, rock geranium ♦ scarlet wisteria tree, Sesbania grandiflora, slack, soft ♦ tangle orchid ♦ Vague year, vegetable hummingbird ♦ wide-open, woodland oxeye. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "lax": TLAs ♦ warez. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "lax": laxative. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Lax" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. German (easy going, laissez-fair, lax, laxly, lose), Icelandic (salmon), Romanian (lax), Swedish (salmon). |
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Sedum laxum, more commonly known as the Lax Stonecrop.Credit: Peter Zika. | Farshot of lax stonecrop (Sedum laxum).Credit: Peter Zika. | ||
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | They watched his lax hands to see the fists form. |
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Business | Low pay also increases a lax attitude toward corruption. (references) | |
Lax compliance with the law has resulted in only limited access to most buildings. (references) | ||
For example, in some seaside areas, hotels, shops and homes have been built according to the lax building codes that were once in effect. (references) | ||
Children | Japan | The law was passed following heightened public attention to a growing problem of teenage prostitution and international criticism over the country's lax laws on child pornography. (references) |
Colombia | The Constitution formally provides for free public education, which is compulsory between the ages of 6 and 15. An estimated 25 percent of children in this age group do not attend school, due to lax enforcement of truancy laws, inadequate classroom space, and economic pressures to provide income for the family. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Chile | It is mandatory to teach the creed requested by parents, although enforcement is sometimes lax. (references) |
Economic History | Kuwait | Payment discipline was lax and real economic losses common. (references) |
Nigeria | The primary problem regarding Nigeria's regulatory system is lax and uneven enforcement. (references) | |
Zimbabwe | While Zimbabwe law also protects the rights of copyright holders, enforcement in this area is lax. (references) | |
Human Rights | Mexico | Just 4 days before Guzman's escape the CNDH alerted the Office of the Secretary of Public Security about the lax security at Puente Grande. (references) |
Japan | However, public confidence remained low, and allegations persisted that the police and public safety commissions remained lax in investigating charges of police misconduct. (references) | |
Guyana | Many justice authorities and human rights activists say that due to rising crime and pressure from urban businesses, which are often the targets of criminals, the Government has taken a lax attitude toward investigation of alleged police abuses. (references) | |
Political Economy | GUATEMALA | While, enforcement of this requirement has been lax, compliance is increasing. (references) |
Thailand | Enforcement of a broad range of laws and regulations by police continued to be noticeably lax. (references) | |
VENEZUELA | However, comprehensive legislation remains to be enacted and enforcement of IPR laws remains lax. (references) | |
Trade | Taiwan | Although a Taiwan law mandates reimbursement to healthcare providers at the actual costs of transaction, lax enforcement of this law has allowed generic producers to offer significant discounts. (references) |
Bahrain | As a member of the Arab League, Bahrain is officially committed to enforcement, through its customs clearance procedures, of the primary aspect of the League's boycott of Israel, but enforcement is lax. (references) | |
Venezuela | The Venezuelan banking sector continues to recover from the serious financial crisis in the mid-1990's that affected more than 50 percent of the deposit base and is estimated to have cost the country between 15 percent and 18 percent of GDP. The crisis was the result of an economic recession, along with deregulation, lax bank supervision, directed lending, and poor credit practices. (references) | |
Travel | Honduras | Punctuality is more lax than in the U.S.; waiting is typical. (references) |
Philippines | Filipinos tend to be lax in replying to RSVPs. Telephone follow-ups are best, about three days before. (references) | |
Kuwait | Good road surfaces, powerful cars and lax enforcement of traffic regulations combine to make speeding commonplace and driving very hazardous. (references) | |
Women | Albania | In the country's traditionally male-dominated society, cultural acceptance and lax police response resulted in most abuse going unreported. (references) |
Worker Rights | Latvia | State authorities are lax in their enforcement of child labor laws. (references) |
Syria | The enforcement of labor laws in rural areas also is more lax than it is in urban areas, where inspectors are concentrated. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Lax" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Lax" is used about 173 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 173 | 23,656 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "lax" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Lax | Last name | 1,000 | 11,506 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "lax": be lax ♦ lax bowels ♦ lax me! ♦ liable to a lax. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "lax": re-lax. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
lax | 2,266 |
lax parking | 671 |
lax airport | 494 |
lax hotel | 187 |
lax car rental | 184 |
lax shuttle | 157 |
airport shuttle lax | 125 |
lax airport parking | 94 |
lax map | 65 |
ex lax | 59 |
lax long term parking | 57 |
lax world | 48 |
lax transportation | 44 |
lax shuttle service | 43 |
lax international airport | 43 |
lax arrival | 37 |
apartment lax | 36 |
super shuttle lax | 36 |
four point sheraton lax | 30 |
lax max | 30 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "lax"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | tolerues (indulgent, wide open), jokërkues, i turbullt (blank, cloudy, dim, dimmish, dreamy, dull, dusky, feculent, foggy, indistinct, misty, muddy, obscure, shadowy, thick, turbid, turbulent, vague, woozy), i shkujdesur (blind, carefree, careless, casual, cavalier, devil may care, downbeat, easy, easygoing, fast, forgetful, happy go lucky, heedless, improvident, inadvertent, incautious, inobservant, light hearted, lightsome, neglectful, negligent, remiss, slack, slaphappy, slipshod, thoughtless, traipse, trapes, unclean, unconcerned, unkempt, unladylike, unmindful, untidy), i pasaktë (erroneous, fallible, false, improper, inaccurate, incorrect, inexact, inexplicit, untrue, vague), i lëshuar (abandoned, flabby, flaccid, flagging, floppy, funky, lackadaisical, languid, languishing, licentious, limp, loose, nerveless, pendulous, profligate, slack, slatternly, slipshod, weary, wretched), i dobët (anaemic, anemic, bad, cachectic, characterless, cheesy, delicate, Dickey, dicky, dim, Dotty, enervate, faint, fainting, feeble, flabby, flaccid, gone, ill-conditioned, impaired, indolent, inferior, infirm, insubstantial, knock kneed, lame, lamentable, languid, languorous, lean, low, meager, meagre, mean, measly, milk and water, nerveless, pale, pimping, pithless, poky, poor, puny, queasy, reckling, remiss, remote, rotten, rundown, scraggy, scrannel, scrawny, scrofulous, seared, shoddy, skinny, slack, sleazy, slender, slight, slim, soft, spare, squeamish, tender, thin, third rate, Twiggy, weak, weakly, woozy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مهلهل (dilapidated, flimsy, rocky, scruffy, sleazy, slight, slim, thin, tumbledown), منحل (degenerate, degenerated, deteriorated, disintegrator, unfastened, untied), متناثر (dispersed, scattered, sparse, sprinkled, strewn about), مصاب بإسهال (have the run), لين (clemency, ductile, elastic, flabbiness, flabby, flaccid, flaccidity, flexible, gentleness, laxity, lenience, leniency, limp, limpness, loose, make flexible, make soft, make tender, malleable, manageable, mellow, mildness, moderate, plastic, plasticize, pliable, pliant, resilient, soft, soften, supple, temper, tender, yielding), غامض (abstruse, ambiguous, cloudy, deep, dim, double faced, dreamy, enigmatic, evasive, fuzzy, grave, hazy, impenetrable, incomprehensible, indecisive, indefinite, indeterminate, indistinct, indistinguishable, inscrutable, intangible, magic, magical, misty, mysterious, mystic, nebulous, obscure, occult, opaque, puzzling, recondite, secret, shady, sketchy, slippery, sloppy, uncertain, unintelligible, vague, woolly), رخو (flabby, flaccid, limp, loose, quaggy, slack, sluggish, soft). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | рехав (feathery, loose, loose-textured, straggling), редовен (full time, goer, licensed, normal, ordinary, regular, routine, stated), развратен (abandoned, debauched, dissolute, fast, filthy, goatish, immoral, impure, lecherous, lewd, lickerish, perverted, profligate, rakish, reprobate, scarlet, sporty), разпуснат (dissolute, fast, free, gay, incontinent, loose, profligate, raffish, rakish, self-abandoned, ungovernable, unregenerated, unsteady, wanton), халтав (loose, slack), хлабав (loose, slack), отпуснат (enervate, flabby, flaccid, flagging, floppy, indolent, lackadaisical, languid, limp, loose, lymphatic, nerveless, sinewless, slack, soft, soppy, spiritless, untight), неточен (improper, inaccurate, incorrect, indefinite, inexact, loose, unfaithful, untrue, wide, wrong), небрежен (careless, casual, floppy, heedless, loose, neglectful, neglige, negligent, perfunctory, ragged, raunchy, regardless, remiss, skimpy, slack, slapdash, slipshod, slipslop, sloppy, slovenly, thoughtless, unheeding, untidy), пушена шведска сьомга, пушена норвежка сьомга, изговарян без напрежение. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 松驰 (slack, slacken, Slackened, slackening, slacks), 懈 (negligent), 從 (follow, from, obey, observe, second cousin, unhurried, yielding). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | ledabylý (careless, casual, cavalier, remiss, slapdash, untidy), ležérní (casual, easygoing), laxní (casual, dilatory, flabby, half hearted, slack), volný (clear, comfortable, for hire, free, liberal, loose, open, slack, spare, svelte, unattached, unoccupied, unrestrained, vacant), vágní (dim, hazy, impressionistic, sloppy, vague), uvolnìný (disengaged, laid back, loose, relaxed, released, unbuttoned, unstrung), nedbalý (careless, casual, neglectful, negligent, offhand, remiss, slack, sloppy, slovenly, unmindful). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | لینت مزاج , لخت (Bare, Naked, Nude, Picked, Stodgy), ول کردن (Leave, Let, Quit, Relinquish, Unbridle, Unhand, Unloose), سهل انگار (Inconsiderate, Nonchalant), سست (Atonic, Effeminate, Feckless, Floppy, Frail, Groggy, Inactive, Indolent, Insecure, Languid, Lethargic, Loose, Mild, Rattletrap, Remiss, Rickety, Shaky, Slack, Sleazy, Slender, Slothful, Supine, Tardy, Tepid, Torpid, Weak), اهمال کار (Dawdle, Nonchalant), رهاکردن (Abandon, Bolt, Disentangle, Dispossess, Drop, Extricate, Leave, Let, Liberate, Loose, Release, Surrender, Unbend, Uncork, Uncouple, Unfasten, Unfix, Unfold, Unhand, Unhook, Unleash, Unloose, Unsling), شل کردن (Jellify, Loosen, Relax, Slack, Unbend, Unbind, Unbrace, Unhitch, Unhook, Unloose, Unstring), شل (Baggy, Knockkneed, Limp, Loose, Ramshackle, Slack). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | löyhä (lax irregular, loose, slack). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | lâché, vague, relâché, mou (lank). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | locker (cool, fast, fluffily, fluffy, frothy, laxly, light, limber, loose, loosely, loose-packed, open, relaxed, relaxedly, slack, spongy, unconstrained, unformal, ungirt). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | χαλαρόσ (flaccid, limp, listless, loose, slack), ευκοίλιοσ (loose), αμελήσ (careless, neglectful, negligent, remiss). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מתיר י (indulgent, permissive), אלתית (salmon), רפיון מעים, רפ" (feeble, flabby, flaccid, languid, limp, limping, loose, slack, soft, weak). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | laza (accommodating, easy, flimsy, flipperty-flopperty, floppy, incompact, loose, open, running, slack, sleazy, sloppy), feslett (abandoned, lewd, libertine, loose, profligate), fegyelmezetlen (disorderly, inordinate, insubordinate, irrepressible, obstreperous, undisciplined), ernyedt (flabby, flaccid, floppy, languid, sloppy, swooned, swooning, to feel slack). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | trascurato (careless, forlorn, inaccurate, neglected, neglectful, negligent, perfunctory, remiss, slovenly), rilassato (loose, relaxed, slackens, unwinds), negligente (careless, inadvertent, inattentive, negligent, remiss, slack, slapdash, slaphappy), molle (crummy, feeble, flabby, soft, squashy, tender, tongs, weak). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | まりの無い (loose, slack), まりのない (loose, slack), 手緩い (lenient, slow). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | しまりのない (loose, slack), てぬるい (lenient, slow). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | neuchurrymagh (careless, inattentive, insouciant), feayshlit (loose). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Norwegian | slapp (flabby, floppy, limp). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | axlay lasso, vago (empty, faraway lands, fuzzy, general, half-light, hazy, indeclinable, indelibility, indescribable, indeterminate, jumbled up, loose, nebulous, neutral country, remote, spare, transcendental, vacant, vague), salmão escandinavo, indistinto (dim, fuzzy, he, inartificial, incomparable, indistinct, misunderstand, mum, nebulous, thick, tight lipped), frouxo (bleak, flaccid, floppy, free for all, incompact, languid, lanolin, loose, sloppy link), diarréia (diarrhea, diarrhoea, lay, looseness), bambo (floppy), ambíguo (ambiguous, double, double-barrelled, double-minded, equivocal), advogado especializado em imigração. (various references) lax, vai (alack, alas, fie, heigh-ho, lack, my, oh, oh dear, oh me, ouch, well, woe), vag (dim, distant, dull, dusty, evasive, evasively, faint, general, hazy, indefinable, indefinite, indeterminate, indistinct, loose, loosely, misty, muddy, nebulous, remote, shadowy, sketchy, slight, vague, washy), uşor (downhill, easily, easy, facile, fluffy, gauzy, gentle, glib, gossamer, jamb, light, light of foot, lightly, lightsome, rate, readily, ready, running, simple, slight, small, soft, superficial, swimmingly, thin, with a wet finger), slab (adynamic, angular, bad, cold, cranky, crazy, dicky, dim, Dotty, dull, faint, faintly, feckless, feeble, feebly, female, flabby, flaccid, flat, fleshless, flimsy, footless, forceless, frail, gaunt, groggy, helpless, impotent, inner, jaded, jejune, languid, languishing, languorous, lean, Lenten, light, loose, low, meager, meagre, mean, mild, milk and water, namby-pamby, nerveless, one horse, pale, peaked, penny-a-line, pimping, poor, poorly, powerless, quiet, remotely, rickety, scraggy, scrawny, shaky, sickly, silly, skinny, slack, slight, small, soft, sorry, spare, squeal, stringent, tender, thin, washy, weak, weakly), pajişte (grass plot, green, greensward, lawn, Lea, mead, meadow, sward), nu mai spune (gad, well, what a story, yah, you don't mean it, you don't say so), neprecis (doubtful, dusty, loose, neutral), neclar (blind, cloudy, confused, dark, darkly, difficult, diffuse, dim, dull, feeble, foggy, gloomily, hazy, inarticulate, indistinct, inexplicit, muddy, obscurely, vague, vaguely), moale (apathetic, apathetical, doughy, flabby, flexible, invertebrate, languid, languidly, light, limp, limply, mellow, mild, milk and water, pillowy, pulpy, silky, slack, slacky, sloppy, smooth, soft, supine, tame, tender, thawy, velvety, weak, yielding), ia te uitã (hullo), flasc (flabby, flaccid, limp, soft), corupt (corrupt, depraved, prostitute, rotten, scrofulous, venal), îndoielnic (ambiguous, arguable, debatable, doubtful, in doubt, otiose, squint, suspicious, uncertain). (various references) небрежный (careless, casual, devil-may-care, harum scarum, heedless, inadvertent, inexact, loose, loose translation, neglectful, negligent, nonchalant, perfunctory, ragged, remiss, scratchy, slipshod, sloppy, unheeding, unkempt). (various references) labav (languorous, limp, loose, remiss, slack, unfixed, untight), olabavljen (laid back, relaxed). (various references) laxo, poco exigente, indisciplinado (disorderly, undisciplined), flojo (dull, faded, fading, feeble, flabby, flagging, floppy, fluffily, forceless, gentle breeze, groggy, idle, lame, limber, limp, loose, loosely, milk and water, nerveless, sagging, slack, sluggish, soft, supine, thin, threadbare, tipsily, unfirm, unformal, ungirt, unsteadily, watery, weak, wishy washy, withered, wobbly, wonky). (various references) slapp (flabby, flaccid, flaggy, lackadaisical, languid, limp, pithless, slack, wet), lös (cranky, detachable, floating, friable, loose, movable, moveable, pulpy, separate, short). (various references) หลวม, ซึ่งไม่เข้มงว", ซึ่งออกเสียงไม่เกร็งลิ้น. (various references) yumuşak (benignant, bland, ductile, easygoing, effeminate, flabby, flaccid, floppy, gentle, heartthrob, kid glove, kindly, lenient, light, limp, malleable, mellow, mild, pulpy, smooth, soft, soft boiled, spongy, supple, tender, velvet, yielding), umursamaz (conscience-proof, devil may care, disregardful, harum scarum, insensible, light, neglectful, negligent, reckless, slapdash, thickskinned, unconcerned, unheedful), gevşek (airy, crank, drooping, flabby, flaccid, flagging, floppy, halfhearted, laidback, limp, listless, loose, nonrigid, non-rigid, slack, slouching, slouchy, supine, unstuck), dikkatsiz (careless, freewheeling, heedless, inadvertent, inattentive, incurious, listless, mindless, regardless, remiss, slipshod, unaware, unheedful, unheeding, unobservant, unregardful, unseeing, unwary), belirsiz (ambiguous, backhanded, clouded, cloudy, cloudyly, dubious, dusty, equivocal, foggy, fuzzy, hazy, in the balance, indefinable, indefinite, indescribable, indeterminate, indistinct, inglorious, misty, obscure, off color, off colour, precarious, shadowy, uncertain, unclear, undefined, undetermined, unsettled, vague). (various references) слабкий (bedrid, characterless, crank, delicate, faint, feeble, flagging, languishing, limp, nerveless, one horse, pale, queasy, slack, tender, tenuous, weak, weakly), розхитаний (crank, cranky, doddered, haywire, rattletrap, rickety), нещільний (leaky), недбалий (careless, casual, dishonest, heedless, inattentive, neglectful, negligent, nonchalant, oscitant, overly, slovenly, unguarded). (various references) lỏng lẻo (loosely), không chặt chẽ; không nghiêm. (various references) llac (loose, slack). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | dissolutus, laxa, laxate, laxati, laxe, laxus, soluta, soluti, solutis, solutum, solutus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "lax": laxation, laxations, laxative, laxatives, laxer, laxest, laxities, laxity, laxly, laxness, laxnesses. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "lax": curtalax, flax, galax, gravlax, overlax, parallax, relax, smilax, toadflax. (additional references) | |
Words containing "lax": anaphylaxes, anaphylaxis, blaxploitation, blaxploitations, chemoprophylaxes, chemoprophylaxis, claxon, claxons, curtalaxes, flaxen, flaxes, flaxier, flaxiest, flaxseed, flaxseeds, flaxy, galaxes, galaxies, galaxy, klaxon, klaxons, metagalaxies, metagalaxy, morphallaxes, morphallaxis, parallaxes, phylaxis, phylaxises, prophylaxes, prophylaxis, protogalaxies, protogalaxy, relaxant, relaxants, relaxation, relaxations, relaxed, relaxedly, relaxedness, relaxednesses, relaxer, relaxers, relaxes, relaxin, relaxing, relaxins, smilaxes, toadflaxes, trophallaxes, trophallaxis, unrelaxed. (additional references) | |
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"Lax" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: alax, alox, alx, Alxi, blax, eax, elax, glax, glix, ilax, Klax, laa, lact, laf, laggs, laix, Laj, laks, lal, lanx, laq, larx, lasx, lau, Laux, Laxa, laxe, laxi, laxs, laxt, laxy, laz, Leix, lenx, leox, Lexa, lexy, liax, likx, lix, lixa, lixo, lixs, lja, loax, loxa, loxi, loxo, loxu, loxy, lux, luxh, lxxiv, lza, olix, plax. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "lax" (pronounced la"ks) |
| 4 | l a" k s | blacks, flax, lacks, plaques, relax, slacks. |
| 3 | -a" k s | antitax, attacks, ax, axe, backs, cracks, fax, hacks, jacks, knacks, macks, Macs, Max, packs, pacs, Pax, pretax, quacks, racks, rax, sacks, sacs, sax, shacks, smacks, snacks, stacks, tacks, tax, tracks, wacks, wax, whacks. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-l-x" | |
-1 letter: al, ax, la. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-l-x" | |
+1 letter: axal, axel, axil, axle, calx, falx, flax. | |
+2 letters: axels, axial, axile, axils, axled, axles, calix, calyx, coxal, exalt, flaxy, galax, latex, laxer, laxly, relax, xylan. | |
+3 letters: afflux, alexia, alexin, alkoxy, axilla, axlike, axonal, biaxal, calxes, claxon, climax, coaxal, exalts, exhale, flaxen, flaxes, galaxy, hallux, klaxon, larynx, laxest, laxity, lexica, luxate, oxalic, oxalis, oxtail, plexal, poleax, sexual, smilax, waxily, xenial, xylans. | |
+4 letters: abaxial, abaxile, adaxial, adnexal, affixal, alexias, alexine, alexins, alloxan, asexual, axially, axillae, axillar, axillas, axolotl, biaxial, boxhaul, calyxes, claxons, coalbox, coaxial, coxalgy, dextral, exactly, exalted, exalter, example, exclaim, exclave, exempla, exhaled, exhales, exilian, explain, explant, exposal, exuvial, fixable, flaxier, foxtail, galaxes, gravlax, hexapla, klaxons, latexes, laxness, lexical, lixivia, luxated, luxates, mailbox, maxilla, maximal, maxwell, mixable, overlax, oxalate, oxtails, oxysalt, phalanx, poleaxe, relaxed, relaxer, relaxes, relaxin, salpinx, saltbox, taxable, taxably, taxless, textual, toxical, uxorial, vexilla, waxbill, waxlike. | |
+5 letters: acetoxyl, affixial, affluxes, alexines, alkoxide, alloxans, amplexus, anthelix, apoplexy, axiality, axillars, axillary, axiology, axletree, axolotls, axonemal, axoplasm, bisexual, boxhauls, cacomixl, carboxyl, climaxed, climaxes, coxalgia, coxalgic, curtalax, dyslexia, epicalyx, exalters, exalting, exampled, examples, exarchal, exclaims, exclaves, excretal, exemplar, exequial, exergual, exhalant, exhalent, exhaling, exorable, exordial, expiable, explains, explants, exposals, external, exultant, fabliaux, flaxiest, flaxseed, flexagon, flexural, fluxgate, foxtails, galaxies, gloxinia, hexaplar, hexaplas, larynxes, laxation, laxative, laxities, lixivial, luxating, luxation, maxillae, maxillas, maximals, maxwells, monaxial, naloxone, oxalated, oxalates, oxalises, oxidable, oxysalts, parallax, phylaxis, plateaux, poleaxed, poleaxes, preaxial, prefixal, proximal, pyrexial, quadplex, relaxant, relaxers, relaxing, relaxins, rouleaux, saxatile, sexually, siloxane, smallpox, smilaxes, subaxial, suffixal, tableaux, taxables, taxingly, textural, toadflax, triaxial, uniaxial, unsexual, vexillar, waxbills, waxplant, xylocarp. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4C 61 78 |
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-.. .- -..- |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001100 01100001 01111000 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)L a x |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004C 0061 0078 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)466790 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Photo Album 6. Quotations: Fiction 7. Quotations: Non-fiction 8. Usage Frequency | 9. Names: Frequency 10. Expressions 11. Expressions: Internet 12. Translations: Modern | 13. Translations: Ancient 14. Abbreviations 15. Acronyms 16. Derivations | 17. Rhymes 18. Anagrams 19. Orthography 20. Bibliography |
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