different between backlash vs looseness

English

Etymology

From back +? lash.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bæk?læ?/
• Rhymes: -æ?

Noun

backlash (countable and uncountable, plural backlashes)

1. A sudden backward motion.
2. (figuratively) A negative reaction, objection or outcry, especially of a violent or abrupt nature.

3. (mechanics) The distance through which one part of connected machinery, as a wheel, piston, or screw, can be moved without moving the connected parts, resulting from looseness in fitting or from wear.
4. The jarring or reflex motion caused in badly fitting machinery by irregularities in velocity or a reverse of motion.

Derived terms

• techlash

Translations

Verb

backlash (third-person singular simple present backlashes, present participle backlashing, simple past and past participle backlashed)

1. To cause or set off a backlash.

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Anagrams

• black ash, hacklabs

English

Etymology

From loose +? -ness.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?lu?sn?s/

Noun

looseness (plural loosenesses)

1. The quality or fact of being free from rigidity, attachment or restraint; not tight, not firmly attached or taut.

   See if that nut has too much looseness and tighten it if it does.

2. A relaxed state regarding principles or accuracy.
3. Moral laxity; licentiousness.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.vii:

     Yet goodly court he made still to his Dame, / Pourd out in loosnesse on the grassy grownd [...].

Translations

Anagrams

• nooseless