Fax vs Lax - What's the difference?
fax | lax |
The hair of the head.
A fax machine or a document received and printed by one.
To send a document via a fax machine.
A salmon.
lenient and allowing for deviation; not strict.
* J. A. Symonds
loose; not tight or taut.
* Ray
lacking care; neglectful, negligent
* {{quote-news
, year=2011
, date=October 1
, author=Phil Dawkes
, title=Sunderland 2 - 2 West Brom
, work=BBC Sport
(archaic) Having a looseness of the bowels; diarrheal.
lacrosse
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As a noun fax
is fax (machine).fax
English
(wikipedia fax)Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .Noun
(en-noun)Derived terms
* (l) * (l) * (l)Etymology 2
From (facsimile), first attested 1979.Noun
(faxes)Verb
(es)lax
English
Alternative forms
* (Killian)Etymology 1
From (etyl) lax, from (etyl) .Noun
(laxes)Etymology 2
From (etyl)Adjective
(er)- 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.
- The rope fell lax .
- the flesh of that sort of fish being lax and spongy
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