Lax

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Lax \Lax\ (l[a^]ks), a. [Compar. {Laxer} (l[a^]ks"[~e]r);
     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.
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              The flesh of that sort of fish being lax and spongy.
                                                    --Ray.
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     2. Not strict or stringent; not exact; loose; weak; vague;
        equivocal.
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              The discipline was lax.               --Macaulay.
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              Society at that epoch was lenient, if not lax, in
              matters of the passions.              --J. A.
                                                    Symonds.
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              The word "[ae]ternus" itself is sometimes of a lax
              signification.                        --Jortin.
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     3. Having a looseness of the bowels; diarrheal.
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     Syn: Loose; slack; vague; unconfined; unrestrained;
          dissolute; licentious.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Lax \Lax\, n.
     A looseness; diarrhea.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  lax
       adj 1: lacking in rigor or strictness; "such lax and slipshod ways
              are no longer acceptable"; "lax in attending classes";
              "slack in maintaining discipline" [syn: {slack}]
       2: pronounced with muscles relatively relaxed (e.g., the vowel
          sound in `bet') [ant: {tense}]
       3: not taut or rigid; not stretched or held tight; "a lax rope"
          [ant: {tense}]
       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" [syn: {flaccid}, {limp},
           {slack}]
       5: tolerant or lenient; "indulgent parents risk spoiling their
          children"; "procedures are lax and discipline is weak";
          "too soft on the children" [syn: {indulgent}, {lenient}, {soft}]
       6: emptying easily or excessively; "loose bowels" [syn: {loose}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  316 Moby Thesaurus words for "lax":
     Micawberish, Paphian, abandoned, accented, accepting, admissive,
     aleatoric, aleatory, allowing, alveolar, amorphous, apical,
     apico-alveolar, apico-dental, approximate, approximative,
     articulated, assimilated, back, backward, bagging, baggy, barytone,
     behindhand, bilabial, blobby, blurred, blurry, bone-lazy, broad,
     broad-minded, cacuminal, cadging, careless, central, cerebral,
     chambering, chance, chancy, chaotic, checked, clement, close,
     compassionate, confused, consenting, consonant, consonantal,
     continuant, culpably negligent, dallying, dangling, delaying,
     delinquent, dental, derelict, dilatory, dillydallying, disordered,
     disregardful, dissimilated, do-nothing, doless, dorsal, dronish,
     drony, drooping, ease, ease off, easy, easygoing, ergophobic,
     faineant, flabby, flaccid, flapping, flat, flimsy, floppy, foggy,
     foot-dragging, forbearant, forbearing, forgetful, forgiving,
     freethinking, front, fuzzy, general, gentle, glide, glossal,
     glottal, go-go, good-for-nothing, guttural, hanging, hard, hazy,
     heavy, high, hit-or-miss, humane, ill-defined, immoderate,
     impotent, imprecise, inaccurate, inadvertent, inattentive,
     inchoate, incoherent, incontinent, incorrect, indecisive,
     indefinable, indefinite, indeterminable, indeterminate,
     indifferent, indistinct, indolent, indulgent, inexact, intemperate,
     intonated, irrepressible, labial, labiodental, labiovelar,
     lackadaisical, laggard, lagging, laissez-faire, lateral,
     latitudinarian, lazy, lenient, liberal, libertarian, libertine,
     licentious, light, limp, lingering, lingual, liquid, loitering,
     loose, loose-moraled, loosen, low, merciful, mid, mild, moderate,
     monophthongal, muted, narrow, nasal, nasalized, neglectful,
     neglecting, negligent, nonaggressive, noninterfering,
     nonprohibitive, nonrestrictive, nonspecific, oblivious, obscure,
     occlusive, of easy virtue, of loose morals, off-guard, open,
     open-minded, orderless, out of control, out of hand, out of line,
     out of plumb, out of square, out of true, overindulgent,
     overly permissive, overpermissive, oxytone, palatal, palatalized,
     parasitic, patient, permissive, permitting, pharyngeal,
     pharyngealized, phonemic, phonetic, phonic, pitch, pitched,
     posttonic, procrastinating, procrastinative, procrastinatory,
     promiscuous, rampant, random, regardless, reinless, relax, relaxed,
     remiss, retroflex, rickety, riotous, rounded, rubbery, scamping,
     scrounging, semivowel, shadowed forth, shadowy, shaky, shapeless,
     shiftless, shuffling, skimping, slack, slacken, slighting,
     slipshod, sloppy, slothful, slow, sluggish, slurring, soft, sonant,
     sponging, stochastic, stopped, streaming, stressed, strong,
     suffering, surd, sweeping, syllabic, tender, tense, thick, throaty,
     tolerant, tolerating, tonal, tonic, twangy, unaccented, unbigoted,
     unbridled, unchecked, uncircumspect, unclear, uncoerced,
     uncompelled, unconstrained, uncontrolled, uncurbed, undefined,
     undestined, undetermined, unenterprising, unfactual, unforced,
     ungoverned, unguarded, uninhibited, unmastered, unmeasured,
     unmindful, unmuzzled, unplain, unprecise, unprohibitive, unreined,
     unrepressed, unreserved, unrestrained, unrestrictive, unrigorous,
     unrounded, unruly, unspecified, unstressed, unsubdued,
     unsuppressed, untighten, unwary, unwatchful, vague, veiled, velar,
     vocalic, vocoid, voiced, voiceless, vowel, vowellike, wanton,
     wayward, weak, whorish, wide, wild, work-shy
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

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