Lax vs. Salmon — What's the Difference?

Not sufficiently strict, severe, or careful

Salmon is the common name for several species of ray-finned fish in the family Salmonidae. Other fish in the same family include trout, char, grayling, and whitefish.

(of the limbs or muscles) relaxed

A large edible fish that is a popular sporting fish, much prized for its pink flesh. Salmon mature in the sea but migrate to freshwater streams to spawn.

Lacrosse

Any of a number of fishes resembling the salmon.

Lacking in rigor, strictness, or firmness.

A pale pink colour

Not taut, firm, or compact; slack.

Any of various large salmonid food and game fishes of the genera Oncorhynchus and Salmo of northern waters, having pink or red flesh and characteristically swimming from salt to fresh water to spawn.

Loose and not easily retained or controlled. Used of bowel movements.

The flesh of a salmon, used as food.

(Linguistics) Pronounced with the muscles of the tongue and jaw relatively relaxed, as the vowel (ĕ) in let.

A yellowish pink to light or reddish orange.

A salmon.

One of several species of fish, typically of the Salmoninae subfamily, brownish above with silvery sides and delicate pinkish-orange flesh; they ascend rivers to spawn.

Lacrosse.

A meal or dish made from this fish.

Lenient and allowing for deviation; not strict.

A pale pinkish-orange colour, the colour of cooked salmon.

Loose; not tight or taut.

The upper bricks in a kiln which receive the least heat.

Lacking care; neglectful, negligent.

(Cockney rhyming slang) snout (tobacco; from salmon and trout)

(mathematics) Describing an associative monoidal functor.

Having a pale pinkish-orange colour.

(archaic) Having a looseness of the bowels; diarrheal.

To ride a bicycle the wrong way down a one-way street.

Not tense, firm, or rigid; loose; slack; as, a lax bandage; lax fiber.

Any one of several species of fishes of the genus Salmo and allied genera. The common salmon (Salmo salar) of Northern Europe and Eastern North America, and the California salmon, or quinnat, are the most important species. They are extensively preserved for food. See Quinnat.

Not strict or stringent; not exact; loose; weak; vague; equivocal.

A reddish yellow or orange color, like the flesh of the salmon.

Having a looseness of the bowels; diarrheal.

Of a reddish yellow or orange color, like that of the flesh of the salmon.

A looseness; diarrhea.

Any of various large food and game fishes of northern waters; usually migrate from salt to fresh water to spawn

Lacking in rigor or strictness;

A tributary of the Snake River in Idaho

Pronounced with muscles relatively relaxed (e.g., the vowel sound in `bet')

Flesh of any of various marine or freshwater fish of the family Salmonidae

Not taut or rigid; not stretched or held tight;

Lacking in strength or firmness or resilience;

Tolerant or lenient;

Emptying easily or excessively;