different between vax vs rax

English

Alternative forms

• vaxx

Pronunciation

Etymology

From the phonetic spelling of the clipping of vaccine, vaccination or vaccinate.

Noun

vax (countable and uncountable, plural vaxxes)

1. (slang) Clipping of vaccine.
2. (slang) Clipping of vaccination.

Derived terms

Related terms

Verb

vax (third-person singular simple present vaxxes, present participle vaxxing, simple past and past participle vaxxed)

1. (slang) To vaccinate.

See also

Anagrams

• Xav

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse vax, from Proto-Germanic *wahs?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vaxs/
• IPA^(key): /vaks/

Noun

vax n (genitive singular vax, no plural)

1. wax

Declension

Derived terms

• bývax

Middle English

Noun

vax

1. Alternative form of wax (“wax”)

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse vax, from Proto-Germanic *wahs?.

Noun

vax n

1. wax

Zhuang

Pronunciation

• (Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /?a??/
• Tone numbers: va⁴
• Hyphenation: vax

Etymology 1

From Chinese ? (MC ??ua^X).

Noun

vax (Sawndip forms ???? or ???? or ?, old orthography va?)

1. tile

Etymology 2

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

Verb

vax (Sawndip forms ? or ????, old orthography va?)

1. to grab; to snatch

   Synonyms: (dialectal) gvax, (dialectal) gyaek, (dialectal) vamz

2. to dredge; to scoop; to haul (out of water)

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