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lax
[laks] 
–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). |
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| lax (lāks) adj. lax·er, lax·est
[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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Lax
Lax\, a. [Compar. Laxer; superl. Laxest.] [L. laxus Cf. Laches, Languish, Lease, v. t., Leash.]1. Not tense, firm, or rigid; loose; slack; as, a lax bandage; lax fiber. The flesh of that sort of fish being lax and spongy. --Ray. 2. Not strict or stringent; not exact; loose; weak; vague; equivocal. The discipline was lax. --Macaulay. Society at that epoch was lenient, if not lax, in matters of the passions. --J. A. Symonds. The word "[ae]ternus" itself is sometimes of a lax signification. --Jortin. 3. Having a looseness of the bowels; diarrheal. Syn: Loose; slack; vague; unconfined; unrestrained; dissolute; licentious.Lax
Lax\, n. A looseness; diarrhea.
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Language Translation for : lax
Spanish:
poco disciplinario, flojo,
German:
lässig,
Japanese:
だらしのない
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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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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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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