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单词 lox
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loxn.1

Brit. /lɒks/, U.S. /lɑks/
? Obsolete plural of lock n.1 (see sense 2 note).
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1668 Clevelands Old Gill ii, in J.C. Revived (ed. 4) 32 Her Breath smells like Lox.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

loxn.2

Brit. /lɒks/, /ˌɛləʊˈɛks/, U.S. /lɑks/
Forms: Also LOX.
Etymology: originally < liquid oxygen explosive; later interpreted as representing liquid oxygen.
a. An explosive device which uses liquid oxygen as an oxidant (see quot. 1946).
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > explosive material > [noun] > other specific explosives
powdera1393
gunpowder1411
saltpetre1501
petre1586
halinitre1608
sal-prunella1664
petre-salt1708
xyloidin1838
gun-cotton1846
pyroxyle1847
pyroxylin1847
pyroglycerin1850
xylidine1850
nitroglycerine1852
gun-sawdust1853
picrate1854
trinitroglycerin1864
nitroleum1866
trinitrin1866
dynamite1867
giant-powder1872
dualin1874
fulgurite1874
rendrock1874
glyoxilin1875
lithofracteur1875
trinitro-cellulose1875
white gunpowder1875
gelatin1878
cotton-powder1879
vigorite1879
blasting gelatine1881
Hercules powder1881
saxifragine1881
tonite1881
dynamogen1882
forcite1883
haloxylin1883
jelly powdera1884
nitro-gelatinea1884
panclastite1883
potentite1883
sebastinea1884
kolloxylin1884
hellhoffite1885
rackarock1885
securite1886
kinetite1887
roburite1887
carbo-dynamite1888
fortis1889
gelatine dynamite1889
gelignite1889
seranine1889
straw-dynamite1889
carbonite1890
amberite1891
nitro powder1892
Schnebelite1893
westfalite1894
thorite1899
soup1902
ammonal1903
cheddite1908
trinitrotoluene1908
Samsonite1909
tolite1909
trinitrotoluol1910
trotyl1910
glyceryl trinitrate1912
T.N.T.1915
nitro1916
amatol1918
cyclonite1923
hexogen1923
lox1923
pentaerythritol tetranitrate1923
hexite1931
aurantia1940
jelly1941
RDX1941
society > occupation and work > materials > fuel > chemical fuel > [noun] > liquid
naphthec1384
naphtha1543
paraffin1851
kerosene1854
octylene1857
shale-oil1857
coal oil1859
gasoline1863
octane1867
octene1868
octyne1877
gas1878
liquid fuel1889
petrol1895
mazut1897
white fuel1901
diesel oil1905
autogas1908
juice1909
sauce1918
power kerosene1919
petroil1921
ethyl1923
lox1923
kero1930
isooctane1932
high-octane1933
hi-octane1933
Calor1936
pool petrol1939
super1939
pool1940
derv1948
platformate1949
mixture1952
diesel1953
Mapp gas1962
gasohol1971
super unleaded1975
synoil1976
synjet1979
biodiesel1986
Orimulsion1987
1923 Chem. Abstr. 17 2646 Wood pulp as an ingredient renders LOXs less sensitive to detonation.
1933 Mining & Metall. XIV. 368/1 This research was to be centered upon the absorbent material used in the manufacture of LOX cartridges.
1946 G. J. Young Elem. Mining (ed. 4) v. 127 Lox consists of a canvas cartridge filled with granular carbonaceous material, moistened, which when soaked in liquid oxygen, removed from the soaking box, and placed in the drill hole can be detonated and is an effective blasting agent.
1966 S. Fordham High Explosives & Propellants v. 63 A type of explosive..which achieved popularity for a time and is still used in some countries, is the liquid oxygen explosive or LOX.
b. Liquid oxygen, esp. when used as a rocket propellant.The 1923 example may have been intended in sense a.
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society > occupation and work > materials > fuel > chemical fuel > [noun] > used in rocketry
liquid fuel1889
solid fuel1891
propellant1919
fuel1922
rocket fuel1931
hypergol1947
hypergolic1947
lox1949
monopropellant1949
1923 Chem. Abstr. 17 2646 The ballistic pendulum was found suitable for tests of LOX explosives.
1940 News (San Francisco) 3 Oct. 19/4 That liquid is called liquid oxygen, or ‘L-O-X’, as the mining men say.
1949 Time 6 June The Viking burns alcohol and ‘lox’ in a single combustion chamber.
1959 Adv. Space Sci. & Technol. 1 193 Existing LOX systems probably will not function properly under weightlessness.
1962 Flight Internat. 81 168/2 The Buccaneer is the first Naval aircraft to use lox.

Derivatives

lox v. transitive, to fuel with liquid oxygen.
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society > occupation and work > materials > fuel > chemical fuel > [verb (transitive)] > supply with liquid fuel
petrol1902
refuel1918
to tank up1933
to top off1943
lox1961
1961 A. B. Shepard in Astronauts Suppl. 4 The Red~stone was loxed.
ˈloxing n.
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society > occupation and work > materials > fuel > chemical fuel > [noun] > liquid > action of fuelling with
tanking1891
refuelling1893
loxing1962
1962 J. Glenn in J. Glenn et al. Into Orbit 187 One of the loxing valves stuck and the technicians had to shift a smaller valve to complete the loading process.
1970 R. Turnill Lang. of Space 72 Loading the lox into the launch vehicle's fuel tanks from a ground supply is referred to as loxing.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

loxn.3

Brit. /lɒks/, U.S. /lɑks/
Inflections: Plural unchanged, loxes.
Forms: 1900s– laks, 1900s– lax, 1900s– lox, 2000s– loks.
Origin: A borrowing from Yiddish. Etymon: Yiddish laks.
Etymology: < Yiddish laks < Middle High German lahs salmon (see lax n.1).
Esp. in Jewish usage.
Smoked or brined salmon, typically served in thin slices with bagels.See also nova lox at nova n.2
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the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > seafood > [noun] > fish > cured fish > smoked fish
red herringa1399
bloat herringa1586
fumade1599
sore1600
Yarmouth capona1661
kipper1769
finnana1774
Norfolk capon1785
bukkama1805
soldier1811
bloater1832
Yarmouth bloater1832
finnie haddie1851
Californian1873
smoky1891
two-eyed steak1893
finney1906
buckling1909
lox1937
nova1964
1937 M. Levin Old Bunch i. iii. 256 Platters of chicken, and steaming corned beef, and laks—smoked salmon—and sour pickles, and hard salami, and sour tomatoes, and chunks of gefillte fish—eat whatever you want!
1941 S. Longstreet Last Man around World xii. 135 Listen, you lox-eater—until last year you thought herring was the only thing they took from the sea.
1969 ‘A. Glyn’ Dragon Variation ix. 293 He..folded himself on to a stool at the counter, and ordered coffee and a bagel with lox.
2015 N.Y. Times Mag. 26 July 42/1 Others were outraged by the prices: $6 for a bagel with cream cheese; $10 for a lox or pastrami bagel sandwich.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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