different between rox vs rax

English

Pronunciation

Verb

rox

1. (slang, informal) Alternative spelling of rocks (“in sense of excelling, being great”)

Antonyms

• sux

Anagrams

• -xor, XOR, xor

Franco-Provençal

Etymology

From Latin russus.

Adjective

rox m (feminine singular rossi or rossa, masculine plural rox, feminine plural rosses)

1. red

Zhuang

Pronunciation

• (Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /?o??/
• Tone numbers: ro⁴
• Hyphenation: rox

Etymology 1

Compare Lao ??? (l??); Thai ???? (r???).

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Conjunction

rox (old orthography ro?)

1. or

Derived terms

• roxnaeuz

Etymology 2

From Proto-Tai *r??w? (“to know”). Cognate with Thai ??? (rúu), Northern Thai ???, Isan ???, Lao ??? (h?), Lü ??? (huu²), Tai Dam ???, Shan ??? (h??u), Ahom ???????? (ruu) or ???????????????? (ruw), Saek ??.

Verb

rox (old orthography ro?)

1. to know

Derived terms

See also

• caek
• gyaek
• sux

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?æks/
• Rhymes: -æks

Etymology 1

From Middle English raxen, rasken (“to stretch oneself”), from Old English raxan, racsan (“to stretch oneself after sleep”), probably alteration, with formative s, of Old English r??an, ræ??an, re??an (“to stretch, extend”), from Proto-Germanic *rakjan? (“to stretch”), from Proto-Indo-European *re?- (“to make straight”). Related to Dutch rekken (“to stretch”), German recken (“to stretch”), Swedish räcka (“to suffice, reach, pass, last”).

Verb

rax (third-person singular simple present raxes, present participle raxing, simple past and past participle raxed)

1. (Britain, dialectal, Northern England, Scotland, transitive) To stretch; stretch out.
   • 1974, Guy Davenport, Tatlin!:

     Shoeless, he stood naked on his toes, his arms raxed upwards.

2. (Britain, dialectal, Northern England, Scotland, transitive) To reach out; reach or attain to.
3. (Britain, dialectal, Northern England, Scotland, transitive) To extend the hand to; hand or pass something.

   Please rax me the pitcher.

   • 1825, John Wilson, Robert Shelton Mackenzie, James Hogg, William Maginn and John Gibson Lockhart, Noctes Ambrosianæ No. XVIII, in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, vol. 17:

     Wha the mischief set him on reading me? I'm sure he could never read onything in a dacent-like way since he was cleckit—rax me the Queen, and I'll let you hear a bit that will gar your hearts dinnle again—rax me the Queen, I say.

4. (Britain, dialectal, Northern England, Scotland, intransitive) To perform the act of reaching or stretching; stretch one's self; reach for or try to obtain something
5. (Britain, dialectal, chiefly Scotland, intransitive) To stretch after sleep.

Derived terms

• outrax

Related terms

• raxle

Translations

Etymology 2

Shortening of barracks.

Noun

rax (plural rax or raxes)

1. (video game slang) barracks

Anagrams

• AXR, XAR