different between tux vs aux

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

English

Alternative forms

• aux.

Adjective

aux (not comparable)

1. Abbreviation of auxiliary.
   • 2009, Rick Snoman, Dance Music Manual: Tools, Toys and Techniques (page 69)

     Each aux out is connected to an effects unit and the signal is then returned into the desk.

Esperanto

Conjunction

aux

1. X-system spelling of a?

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /o/
• Rhymes: -o
• Homophones: au, aulx, eau, eaux, haut, hauts, ho, o, ô, oh, os (plural only - "os" is not a homophone in the singular)

Contraction

aux

1. Contraction of à + les (to the)

Synonyms

• au
• à la

Further reading

• “aux” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Old French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aws/

Contraction

aux

1. Alternative form of als.