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lax

noun
/læks/UK

Etymology

From Middle English lax, from Old English leax (“salmon”), from Proto-West Germanic *lahs (“salmon”), from Proto-Germanic *lahsaz (“salmon”), from Proto-Indo-European *laḱs- (“salmon, trout”). Cognate with Middle Dutch lacks, lachs, lasche (“salmon”), Middle Low German las (“salmon”), German Lachs (“salmon”), Norwegian laks (“salmon”), Danish laks (“salmon”), Swedish lax (“salmon”), Icelandic lax (“salmon”), Lithuanian lašišà (“salmon”), Latvian lasis, Russian лосо́сь (losósʹ, “salmon”), Albanian leshterik (“eel-grass”). Doublet of lox.

  1. derived from *laḱs-✻
  2. inherited from *lahsaz✻
  3. inherited from *lahs✻
  4. inherited from leax
  5. inherited from lax

Definitions

  1. A salmon.

  2. Lenient and allowing for deviation

    Lenient and allowing for deviation; not strict.

    • The rules are fairly lax, but you have to know which ones you can bend.
    • Society at that epoch was lenient, if not lax, in matters of the passions.

  3. Loose

    Loose; not tight or taut.

    • The rope fell lax.
    • Sreedharan and Mirsa (1973) reported that two lax panicle mutants, designated as nude panicle mutation, were obtained from the M₂ of two rice cultivars.
  4. ›+ 8 more definitions

    1. Lacking care

      Lacking care; neglectful, negligent.

    2. Describing an associative monoidal functor.

    3. Having a looseness of the bowels

      Having a looseness of the bowels; diarrheal.

    4. (of a vowel) Produced with relatively little constriction of the vocal tract.

    5. lacrosse.

      • “I'm not playing lax this term,” Mimah said.

    6. Clipping of laxative.

    7. Los Angeles International Airport

      • Nothing happened, mind your business yo step / You know we connect, JFK 2 LAX

    8. A surname.

The neighborhood

Derived

laxative, laxed, laxing, laxism, laxist, laxly, laxness, lax up, lax vowel, overlax

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at lax. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at lax. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at lax

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA