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lax vowel

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  • lax — [laks] adj. [ME < L laxus < IE base * (s)lēg , loose, lax > SLACK1] 1. a) loose; emptying easily: said of the bowels b) having lax bowels 2. slack; of a loose texture; not rigid or tight 3. not strict or exact …   English World dictionary

  • Vowel — In phonetics, a vowel is a sound in spoken language, such as English ah! IPA| [ɑː] or oh! IPA| [oʊ] , pronounced with an open vocal tract so that there is no build up of air pressure at any point above the glottis. This contrasts with consonants …   Wikipedia

  • vowel — vowelless, adj. vowellike, adj. vowely, vowelly, adv. /vow euhl/, n. 1. Phonet. a. (in English articulation) a speech sound produced without occluding, diverting, or obstructing the flow of air from the lungs (opposed to consonant). b. (in a… …   Universalium

  • lax — I. adjective Etymology: Middle English, from Latin laxus loose more at slack Date: 14th century 1. a. of the bowels loose, open b. having loose bowels 2. deficient in firmness ; not stringent …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • Vowel length — IPA vowel length aː aˑ IPA number 503 or 504 Encoding Entity …   Wikipedia

  • vowel — n. a back; closed; front; high; lax; long; middle; nasal; open; reduced; rounded; short; stressed; tense; unstressed vowel * * * [ vaʊəl] closed front high lax long middle nasal …   Combinatory dictionary

  • lax — laxly, adv. laxness, n. /laks/, adj., laxer, laxest. 1. not strict or severe; careless or negligent: lax morals; a lax attitude toward discipline. 2. loose or slack; not tense, rigid, or firm: a lax rope; a lax handshake. 3. not rigidly exact or… …   Universalium

  • lax — [[t]læks[/t]] adj. er, est 1) not strict or severe; negligent: lax morals[/ex] 2) loose or slack: a lax rope[/ex] 3) not rigidly exact or precise; vague: lax ideas[/ex] 4) loose, open, or not retentive, as the bowels 5) having the bowels loose or …   From formal English to slang

  • vowel — Synonyms and related words: accented, allophone, alveolar, apical, apico alveolar, apico dental, articulated, articulation, aspiration, assimilated, assimilation, back, barytone, bilabial, broad, cacuminal, central, cerebral, check, checked,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • lax — Synonyms and related words: Micawberish, Paphian, abandoned, accented, accepting, admissive, aleatoric, aleatory, allowing, alveolar, amorphous, apical, apico alveolar, apico dental, approximate, approximative, articulated, assimilated, back,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • lax — adjective 1》 not sufficiently strict, severe, or careful. 2》 (of the limbs or muscles) relaxed. 3》 Phonetics (of a speech sound, especially a vowel) pronounced with the vocal muscles relaxed. The opposite of tense1. Derivatives laxity noun laxly… …   English new terms dictionary

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