different between mux vs tux

English

Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)Compare muck.

Noun

mux (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) Dirt, filth or muck.

Verb

mux (third-person singular simple present muxes, present participle muxing, simple past and past participle muxed)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To make a mess of something; to botch.

Etymology 2

Abbreviation of multiplex, multiplexer.

Noun

mux (plural muxes)

1. A multiplexer.

Verb

mux (third-person singular simple present muxes, present participle muxing, simple past and past participle muxed)

1. To multiplex.

Antonyms

• (both noun and verb): demux

See also

• dub
• MUX

Norman

Alternative forms

• miyeu (Jersey)

Etymology

From Old French mielz, mialz, miels, from Latin melius.

Adverb

mux

1. (Guernsey) comparative degree of bian

Phalura

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mux/

Noun

mux m (Perso-Arabic spelling ???)

1. face

Inflection

a-decl (Obl, pl): -á

References

• Liljegren, Henrik; Haider, Naseem (2011) Palula Vocabulary (FLI Language and Culture Series; 7)?^[1], Islamabad, Pakistan: Forum for Language Initiatives, ?ISBN

English

Etymology

Shortening.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?ks
• enPR: t?ks, IPA^(key): /t?ks/

Noun

tux (plural tuxes)

1. (colloquial) A tuxedo.
   • 2013, Russell Brand, Russell Brand and the GQ awards: 'It's amazing how absurd it seems' (in The Guardian, 13 September 2013)[1]

     After a load of photos and what-not, we descend the world's longest escalator, which are called that even as they de-escalate, and in we go to the main forum, a high ceilinged hall, full of circular cloth-draped, numbered tables, a stage at the front, the letters GQ, 12-foot high in neon at the back; this aside, though, neon forever the moniker of trash, this is a posh do, in an opera house full of folk in tuxes.

Middle English

Noun

tux

1. Alternative form of tusk

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tu?ks/

Noun

t?x m

1. Alternative form of t?sc

Declension