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Définitions

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lax
1. adj. Négligent, relâché, laxiste.
The rules are fairly lax, but you have to know which ones you can bend.
2. adj. (Médecine) Relâché (en parlant des intestins, des boyaux).
3. adj. (Linguistique) Lâche (en parlant d'une voyelle).
4. n. Lacrosse.
anglais > anglais
lax
1. n. (now chiefly UK dialectal Scotland) A salmon.
2. adj. Lenient and allowing for deviation; not strict.
The rules are fairly lax, but you have to know which ones you can bend.
3. adj. Loose; not tight or taut.
The rope fell lax.
4. adj. Lacking care; neglectful, negligent.
5. adj. (archaic) Having a looseness of the bowels; diarrheal.
6. adj. (maths) Describing an associative monoidal functor.
7. n. (lbl, en, slang) Lacrosse.

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Exemples de phrases

Government inspectors had been lax in their oversight because they had assumed that a chain reaction could never happen in such a small plant.  Apparently they have both been lax in school work, partially inattention.  Sitting on my stair, I saw the remnants of a broken bottle outside lying at the bodies knee, the neck of it still lax in the hand and deepening in colour from red to black.

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