单词 | lox |
释义 | loxn.1 ? Obsolete plural of lock n.1 (see sense 2 note). Π 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 a. An explosive device which uses liquid oxygen as an oxidant (see quot. 1946). ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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 Esp. in Jewish usage. Smoked or brined salmon, typically served in thin slices with bagels.See also nova lox at nova n.2 ΘΚΠ 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). < n.11668n.21923n.31937 |
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