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 Translation for 'lax' from English to Dutch
ADJ   lax | laxer | laxest
NOUN   lax | -
SYNO lax | loose | slack
laks {adj}lax
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Translation for 'lax' from English to Dutch

lax
laks {adj}
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Usage Examples English
  • Lax lake was named after the Waxlax family who arrived in Northern Minnesota in 1894 from Sweden.
  • Tense–lax neutralization refers to a neutralization, in a particular phonological context in a particular language, of the normal distinction between tense and lax vowels.
  • In 2006, a California state auditor strongly criticized EdFund, finding that the organization exercised lax oversight and made questionable spending decisions.
  • One may distinguish the English tense vs. lax vowels roughly, with its spelling.
  • As the Fuzhou dialect exhibits the phenomenon of rime tensing with certain finals, the tense rime is presented first, with its lax equivalent after.

  • It has been suggested that lax policies on massage parlours contributes to sex trafficking.
  • Inflorescence - several together in lax clusters.
  • /a, e/ have lax allophones of ɛ.
  • Japanese authorities admitted that lax standards and poor oversight contributed to the nuclear disaster.
  • The lax vowel -a in noun and verb endings will change the tense vowels /e/ and /o/ to lax vowels /ɛ/ and /ɔ/.

  • An advantage to having lax ligaments and joints is the ability to withstand pain from hyperextension; however, this is also a disadvantage as a lack of perceived pain can prevent a person from removing the ligament from insult, leading to ligament damage.
  • The phenomenon that occurs in many dialects of the United States is one of tense–lax neutralization [...] in which the normal English distinction between tense and lax vowels is eliminated.
  • The original meaning of the word "lax" is "to eat", however, the meaning changes when it acts as an auxiliary word; the word "lax" is usually placed after the person-object in double-object sentences, even when the thing-object is absent.
  • Below are examples of how lax consonants (ㅂ /p/, ㄷ /t/, ㅈ [...] , ㄱ /k/) change due to location in a word.
  • The terms "checked vowel" and "free vowel" correspond closely to the terms "lax vowel" and "tense vowel" respectively, but many linguists [...] prefer to use the terms "checked" and "free", as there is no clearcut phonetic definition of vowel tenseness and because by most attempted definitions of tenseness [...] and [...] are considered lax, even though they behave in American English as free vowels.

  • The Akhvakh language appears to have a contrast between lax and tense uvular ejectives: [...] "soup", "broth" (lax) vs. [...] "cock's comb" (tense).
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