different between lox vs cox

English

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /l?ks/
• Homophone: locks
• Rhymes: -?ks

Etymology 1

From Yiddish ?????? (laks, “salmon”), from Middle High German lahs, from Old High German lahs, from Proto-West Germanic *lahs, from Proto-Germanic *lahsaz (“salmon”), from Proto-Indo-European *la?s- (“salmon, trout”). Cognate to Icelandic lax, German Lachs. More at lax.

Noun

lox (uncountable)

1. Salmon cured in brine and then smoked in low temperature so that the flesh remains uncooked.

   Synonym: cold-smoked salmon

Hyponyms

• Nova

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• lox on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

Abbreviation of liquid oxygen.

Alternative forms

• LOX, LOx

Noun

lox (uncountable)

1. Liquid oxygen (molecular oxygen in liquid form).

   Synonyms: LO2, O₂(l), loxygen

   Coordinate term: gox (“gaseous oxygen”)

Derived terms

See also

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *luhs (“lynx”). Cognate with Old Saxon lohs (“lynx”), Old High German luhs (“lynx”), Old Swedish l? (“lynx”). See los.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /loks/

Noun

lox m (nominative plural loxas)

1. lynx

Declension

Descendants

• Middle English: lusk

English

Etymology

Shortening of coxswain.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /k?ks/
• (US) enPR: käks, IPA^(key): /k?ks/
• Rhymes: -?ks
• Homophone: cocks

Noun

cox (plural coxes)

1. A coxswain of a boat, especially of a racing crew. [from mid-19th C.]

Derived terms

• coxless
• coxie

Verb

cox (third-person singular simple present coxes, present participle coxing, simple past and past participle coxed)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To act as coxswain for.

   The physicist Stephen Hawking used to cox for a college rowing team.

   I coxed the lightweight 4+ yesterday.

Derived terms

• coxed

Anagrams

• CXO, CxO

Chol

Noun

cox

1. A crested guan, Penelope purpurascens

Swedish

Etymology

From English cox

Noun

cox c

1. a cox

Declension

Tetelcingo Nahuatl

Etymology

C.f. Classical Nahuatl cuix.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ko?/

Adverb

cox

1. maybe, perhaps

   Synonyms: beli?s, cana, mati?

References

• Brewer, Forrest; Brewer, Jean G. (1962) Vocabulario mexicano de Tetelcingo, Morelos: Castellano-mexicano, mexicano-castellano (Serie de vocabularios indígenas Mariano Silva y Aceves; 8)?^[1] (in Spanish), México, D.F.: El Instituto Lingüístico de Verano en coordinación con la Secretaría de Educación Pública a través de la Dirección General de Internados de Enseñanza Primaria y Educación Indígena, published 1971, pages 82, 94, 117