Lax vs. Wax — What's the Difference?

Not sufficiently strict, severe, or careful

Waxes are a diverse class of organic compounds that are lipophilic, malleable solids near ambient temperatures. They include higher alkanes and lipids, typically with melting points above about 40 °C (104 °F), melting to give low viscosity liquids.

(of the limbs or muscles) relaxed

A sticky yellowish mouldable substance secreted by honeybees as the material of a honeycomb; beeswax.

Lacrosse

Used in reference to records

Lacking in rigor, strictness, or firmness.

A fit of anger

Not taut, firm, or compact; slack.

Cover or treat (something) with wax or a similar substance, typically to polish or protect it

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

Make a recording of

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

(of the moon between new and full) have a progressively larger part of its visible surface illuminated, increasing its apparent size.

A salmon.

Begin to speak or write about something in the specified manner

Lacrosse.

Any of various natural, oily or greasy heat-sensitive substances, consisting of hydrocarbons or esters of fatty acids that are insoluble in water but soluble in nonpolar organic solvents.

Lenient and allowing for deviation; not strict.

Beeswax.

Loose; not tight or taut.

Earwax.

Lacking care; neglectful, negligent.

A solid plastic or pliable liquid substance, such as ozocerite or paraffin, originating from petroleum and found in rock layers and used in paper coating, as insulation, in crayons, and often in medicinal preparations.

(mathematics) Describing an associative monoidal functor.

A preparation containing wax used for polishing floors and other surfaces.

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

A resinous mixture used by shoemakers to rub on thread.

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

A cosmetic procedure in which facial or body hair is removed by peeling away a layer of wax that has been allowed to harden.

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

A fit of anger

Having a looseness of the bowels; diarrheal.

Made of wax

A looseness; diarrhea.

To coat, treat, or polish with wax.

Lacking in rigor or strictness;

To remove (facial or body hair) by covering the skin with a layer of wax that is peeled off after hardening, uprooting the encased hairs.

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

To remove hair from (a portion of the body) by this method.

Not taut or rigid; not stretched or held tight;

To increase gradually in size, number, strength, or intensity

Lacking in strength or firmness or resilience;

To show a progressively larger illuminated area, as the moon does in passing from new to full.

Tolerant or lenient;

To grow or become as specified

Emptying easily or excessively;

To speak or write as specified

Beeswax.

Earwax.

Any oily, water-resistant, solid or semisolid substance; normally long-chain hydrocarbons, alcohols or esters.

Any preparation containing wax, used as a polish.

The phonograph record format for music.

A thick syrup made by boiling down the sap of the sugar maple and then cooling it.

A type of drugs with as main ingredients weed oil and butane; hash oil.

(rare) The process of growing.

An outburst of anger, a loss of temper, a fit of rage.

Made of wax.

(transitive) To apply wax to (something, such as a shoe, a floor, a car, or an apple), usually to make it shiny.

(transitive) To remove hair at the roots from (a part of the body) by coating the skin with a film of wax that is then pulled away sharply.

To defeat utterly.

To kill, especially to murder a person.

To record.

To increasingly assume the specified characteristic.

To grow.

To appear larger each night as a progression from a new moon to a full moon.

To move from low tide to high tide.

To increase in size; to grow bigger; to become larger or fuller; - opposed to wane.

To pass from one state to another; to become; to grow; as, to wax strong; to wax warmer or colder; to wax feeble; to wax old; to wax worse and worse.

To smear or rub with wax; to treat with wax; as, to wax a thread or a table.

A fatty, solid substance, produced by bees, and employed by them in the construction of their comb; - usually called beeswax. It is first excreted, from a row of pouches along their sides, in the form of scales, which, being masticated and mixed with saliva, become whitened and tenacious. Its natural color is pale or dull yellow.

Hence, any substance resembling beeswax in consistency or appearance.

Cerumen, or earwax.

A waxlike composition used for uniting surfaces, for excluding air, and for other purposes; as, sealing wax, grafting wax, etching wax, etc.

A waxlike composition used by shoemakers for rubbing their thread.

A substance similar to beeswax, secreted by several species of scale insects, as the Chinese wax. See Wax insect, below.

A waxlike product secreted by certain plants. See Vegetable wax, under Vegetable.

A substance, somewhat resembling wax, found in connection with certain deposits of rock salt and coal; - called also mineral wax, and ozocerite.

Thick sirup made by boiling down the sap of the sugar maple, and then cooling.

Any of numerous substances or mixtures composed predominantly of the longer-chain saturated hydrocarbons such as the paraffins, which are solid at room teperature, or their alcohol, carboxylic acid, or ester derivatives.

Any of various substances of either mineral origin or plant or animal origin; they are solid at normal temperatures and insoluble in water

Cover with wax;

Go up or advance;

Increase in phase;