lox

Clipping of English Loun with x as a placeholder.

lox

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

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Loun terms

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

• Audio (US):

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• Homophone: locks

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

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

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Abbreviation of liquid oxygen.

• LOX, LOx, lOx

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.

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."

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

• IPA^(key): /loks/

lox m

1. lynx

Strong a-stem:

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