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lax

  [laks]
Use lax in a Sentence
–adjective, -er, -est.
1. not strict or severe; careless or negligent: lax morals; a lax attitude toward discipline.
2. loose or slack; not tense, rigid, or firm: a lax rope; a lax handshake.
3. not rigidly exact or precise; vague: lax ideas.
4. open, loose, or not retentive, as diarrheal bowels.
5. (of a person) having the bowels unusually loose or open.
6. open or not compact; having a loosely cohering structure; porous: lax tissue; lax texture.
7. Phonetics. (of a vowel) articulated with relatively relaxed tongue muscles. Compare tense 1 (def. 4).
Origin:
1350–1400; ME < L laxus loose, slack, wide; akin to languēre to languish; c. OE slæc slack 1

Related forms:
laxly, adverb
laxness, noun
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lax   (lāks)   
adj.   lax·er, lax·est

  1. Lacking in rigor, strictness, or firmness. See Synonyms at negligent.

  2. Not taut, firm, or compact; slack. See Synonyms at loose.

  3. Loose and not easily retained or controlled. Used of bowel movements.

  4. Linguistics Pronounced with the muscles of the tongue and jaw relatively relaxed, as the vowel (ě) in let.


[Middle English, from Latin laxus, loose, lax; see slēg- in Indo-European roots.]
lax·a'tion n., lax'ly adv., lax'ness n.
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Word Origin & History

lax  (adj.)
c.1400, "loose" (in ref. to bowels), from L. laxus "wide, loose, open," from PIE base *sleg- "to be slack, be languid" (cf. Gk. legein "to leave off, stop," lagos "hare," lit. "with drooping ears," lagnos "lustful, lascivious," lagaros "slack, hollow, shrunken;" L. languere "to be faint, weary," languidis "faint, weak, dull, sluggish, languid"). Of rules, discipline, etc., attested from c.1450.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: lax
Pronunciation: 'laks
Function: adjective
1 of the bowels : LOOSE3
2 : having loose bowels
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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Computing Dictionary

LAX
LAnguage eXample.
A toy language used to illustrate compiler design.
["Compiler Construction", W.M. Waite et al, Springer 1984].
(1994-12-07)

The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
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Abbreviations & Acronyms
LAX
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