Massage vs Malaxation - What's the difference?
massage | malaxation |
The action of rubbing, kneading or hitting someone's body, to help the person relax, prepare for muscular action (as in contact sports) or to relieve aches.
To rub and knead (someone's body or a part of a body), to perform a massage on (somebody).
To manipulate (data, a document etc.) to make it more presentable or more convenient to work with.
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To falsify (data or accounts).
The act of softening a mass by malaxating.
In entomology, kneading or softening, especially applied to the chewing and squeezing by which certain species of hunting wasps prepare prey captured as food for their larvae.
In agriculture, the process of slowly churning milled oil crops such as olives, allowing droplets of oil to aggregate for more effective separation.
In massage, a kneading technique, particularly used for softening muscle in spasm
In pharmacology, the kneading and squeezing of ingredients into a mass for making pills and plasters
As nouns the difference between massage and malaxation
is that massage is while malaxation is the act of softening a mass by malaxating.massage
English
Noun
(en noun)- Having a massage can have many beneficial effects.
Hyponyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* erotic massage * massager * massage parlour, massage parlor * massage therapist * massotherapyVerb
(massag)- News relating to public disturbances was systematically massaged [...].
- The Conservatives have massaged expectations down by saying they would be delighted with a majority of 1,000 [...]
