Kickback vs Relax - What's the difference?
kickback | relax |
(countable) A backward kick.
* 2010 , Christina T. Loguidice, ?Bill Loguidice, Wii Fitness For Dummies
(countable) A clandestine payment in return for a favor; especially an illegal one
(uncountable, firearms, machinery) Recoil; a sudden backward motion, usually in the direction of the operator.
(countable, machinery) An accident wherein an object being cut by a rotating blade or disk, such as a circular saw, is caught by the blade and thrown outward
(oil drilling) A dangerous buildup of gas pressure at the wellhead
(countable, bowling) The board separating one bowling lane from another at the pit end
(uncountable, bridge) In contract bridge, an ace asking convention initiated by the first step above four of the agreed trump suit.
(pinball) A feature that saves the ball from draining and propels it back into play.
* 1973 , Doug Anderson, Pinball Wizard'' (in ''Texas Monthly volume 1, number 7, August 1973, page 84)
To calm down.
To make something loose.
* Milton
To become loose.
To make something less severe or tense.
To become less severe or tense.
To make something (such as codes and regulations) more lenient.
* Jonathan Swift
(of codes and regulations) To become more lenient.
To relieve (something) from stress.
(dated) To relieve from constipation; to loosen; to open.
As a noun kickback
is (countable) a backward kick.As a verb relax is
to calm down.kickback
English
Noun
(en noun)- Kickbacks work the triceps muscle at the back of your arm. Exercising these muscles helps eliminate arm jiggle.
- We've come a long way since then. The progeny of that nail have been bent and twisted into what we all know and love as roll overs, kickbacks , and thumper-bumpers.
See also
* bribe * kick back *relax
English
Verb
(es)- to relax''' a rope or cord; to '''relax the muscles or sinews
- Horror all his joints relaxed .
- to relax''' discipline; to '''relax one's attention or endeavours
- The stature of mortmain was at several times relaxed by the legislature.
- {{quote-book
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- Amusement relaxes the mind.
- An aperient relaxes the bowels.