lax

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /læks/    美 /læks/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A salmon. Scotland,UK,dialectal
  2. lacrosse. slang,uncountable
    — “I'm not playing lax this term,” Mimah said.
  3. Clipping of laxative. abbreviation,alt-of,clipping,informal
形容词 adj.
  1. Lenient and allowing for deviation; not strict.
    — The rules are fairly lax, but you have to know which ones you can bend.
  2. Loose; not tight or taut.
    — The rope fell lax.
  3. Lacking care; neglectful, negligent.
    — The guard was paying no attention whatever to the running of his train, in total disregard of rules, and, as the recently-published report of a Ministry of Transport Inspecting Officer of Railways shows, there were other disquieting features in the case, such as ignorance on the part of responsible men of rules and appendix instructions and a lax attitude to regulations of which they professed to be aware, combined with failure to look at staff notice boards.
  4. Describing an associative monoidal functor.
  5. Having a looseness of the bowels; diarrheal. archaic
  6. (of a vowel) Produced with relatively little constriction of the vocal tract.

词形变化

laxes plural laxer comparative laxest superlative laxes plural

词汇关系

衍生词
laxative laxed laxing laxism laxist laxly laxness lax up lax vowel overlax
相关词
laxity leash relax release

词源

词源 1
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.
词源 2
Borrowed from Latin laxus (“wide, roomy, loose”).
词源 3
By replacement of the syllable crosse with the cross-shaped letter x.
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