lox

See also: LOX, LOx, and lOx

Translingual

Etymology

Clipping of English Loun with x as a placeholder.

Symbol

lox

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Loun.

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Loun terms

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /lɒks/
• (US) IPA^(key): /lɑks/

• Audio (US):

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• Homophone: locks

Etymology 1

Lox on bagel

Borrowed from Yiddish לאַקס (laks, “salmon”). Doublet of lax.

Noun

lox (uncountable)

1. (US) Salmon that is cured in brine and then smoked at a low temperature so that the flesh remains uncooked.

   Synonym: cold-smoked salmon

Hyponyms

• Nova

Derived terms

• loxism
• loxist

Translations

type of smoked salmon

• Bulgarian: студено пушена сьомга (studeno pušena sjomga)
• Finnish: kylmäsavulohi
• French: saumon fumé (fr) m
• German: Lachs (de) m
• Hebrew: לַקְס m (láks), אִלְתִּית מְעֻשֶּׁנֶת f (iltít m'ushénet)
• Polish: łosoś wędzony m
• Swedish: kallrökt lax n
• Yiddish: לאַקס (laks)

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Translations to be checked

• Dutch: gerookte zalm
• Faroese: royktur laksur m
• French: saumon fumé (fr) m
• German: Räucherlachs (de)
• Italian: salmone affumicato m
• Yiddish: לאַקס m (laks)

See also

• lox on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

Lox (liquid oxygen, the pale blue liquid) in a beaker

Abbreviation of liquid oxygen.

Alternative forms

• LOX, LOx, lOx

Noun

lox (uncountable)

1. Acronym of liquid oxygen, molecular oxygen in liquid form.

   Synonyms: LO2, O₂(l), loxygen

   Coordinate term: gox (“gaseous oxygen”)

   • 1959, “I Shot an Arrow into the Air” (0:45 from the start), in The Twilight Zone, season 1, episode 15:

     [Man]: Lox tanking secured? / [Man 2]: Lox tanking secured.

Derived terms

• flox
• hydrolox
• kerolox
• methalox

Descendants

• Japanese: LOX (LOX)

Verb

lox (third-person singular simple present loxes, present participle loxing, simple past and past participle loxed)

1. (transitive) To supply with liquid oxygen.
   • 2002 February 20, Walter Cronkite, “Cronkite Essay on 40th Anniversary of Glenn Orbit”, in NPR‎^[1]:

     Fumes coming from the booster at the pad indicate that loxing has begun -- that is, the liquid oxygen has begun to be poured into its tank aboard the Atlas.

   • 2012 February 8, Daniel Heaton, “LOXing the fleet: a cold, cold day in the Air National Guard”, in National Guard‎^[2]:

     The crew chiefs refer to the process as "LOXing the fleet."

See also

• LH2 (“liquid hydrogen”)
• LHe (“liquid helium”)
• LN2 (“liquid nitrogen”)
• LNG (“liquified natural gas”)
• LPG (“liquified petroleum gas”)

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *luhs. Cognate with Old Saxon lohs, Old High German luhs, Old Swedish lō. See los.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /loks/

Noun

lox m

1. lynx

Declension

Strong a-stem:

	singular	plural
nominative	lox	loxas
accusative	lox	loxas
genitive	loxes	loxa
dative	loxe	loxum

Descendants

• Middle English: lusk, losse (Early Middle English, Northern)
  • English: los