What's the difference between las and lax?

Las


Definition:

  • (n.) A lace. See Lace.
  • (a. & adv.) Less.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Originally, it was to be named Le Reve, after one of the Picassos that Wynn and his wife own; but, as of last month, it is to be called Wynn Las Vegas, embodying a dream of a different kind.
  • (2) "We expect LSCBs [local safeguarding children boards], LAs [local authorities] police forces and other agencies to do all they can to identify victims and abusers and we are looking at how we can improve data-sharing."
  • (3) Racing was heavily hit, with meetings at Ffos Las, Sandown and Wetherby cancelled.
  • (4) To assess the value of laparoscopic appendectomy (LA) in childhood, we prospectively compared 14 LAs with 50 open appendectomies (OA) over 6 months in a single children's hospital.
  • (5) The results obtained provided direct evidence for the notion that: LAs interact preferentially with inactivated Na+ channels and stabilize their inactivated conformation ("drug-induced slow inactivation": SI); and SI underlies the cumulative inhibition of INa during repetitive membrane stimulation.
  • (6) Moderate maternal toxicity was observed among mice treated with LAS, 0.3% and mild maternal toxicity in rats receiving LAS 3% or soap 30% and rabbits receiving LAS 0.3%.
  • (7) When Contostavlos wanted to stay an extra night at the luxury Las Vegas hotel, he told the court, his editors vetoed it.
  • (8) The deal gave Penn a Las Vegas casino for a fraction of what it cost to build the 390-room resort.
  • (9) With time and sufficient promotion by pH fluctuations or metal-complexing agents, DIP and LAS expand.
  • (10) Apple has used the month of January to launch revolutionary products before, in part as a way of diverting attention from its rivals presenting their latest inventions at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, which Apple does not attend, and that takes place the same month.
  • (11) Moments later, Deputy Chief Tom Roberts, of Las Vegas Metro, defused the situation by delivering the announcement that Cliven Bundy's cattle would be returned within 30 minutes.
  • (12) The lymph nodes of patients with LAS were mostly stage I with marked follicular hyperplasia.
  • (13) Forty were lactose malabsorbers (LMs) and 31 were absorbers (LAs), according to a standard oral lactose tolerance test.
  • (14) Thirteen patients affected with unexplained lymphoadenopathy, fever, weight loss, and diarrhea (lymphoadenopathy syndrome; LAS) were evaluated for the possible appearance of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) and for immunological and virological characterization.
  • (15) Detectable levels of both cytokines were found in 34% of ASY and LAS patients and only rarely were detectable in ARC and AIDS patients.
  • (16) The possibility to correlate the latter findings with a better knowledge of LAS evolution and prognosis is discussed.
  • (17) The purpose of the present study was to propose an alternative measurement process which addresses some of the existing problems by estimating the lost attachment surface area (LAS) and the remaining attachment surface area (RAS) from a combination of clinical measurements.
  • (18) Antibody titres against the viral proteins also seemed to be highest in cases with LAS.
  • (19) Receptor autophosphorylation determined using Triton X-100 extracts of the fibroblasts was decreased in LA1 and LA3, but normal in LA2 and LAS.
  • (20) Facebook Twitter Pinterest ‘The past in all its mortal beauty’: Las Meninas, the 1656 Velazquez masterpiece that held Laura Cumming spellbound at the Prado in Madrid.

Lax


Definition:

  • (v. t.) Not tense, firm, or rigid; loose; slack; as, a lax bandage; lax fiber.
  • (v. t.) Not strict or stringent; not exact; loose; weak; vague; equivocal.
  • (v. t.) Having a looseness of the bowels; diarrheal.
  • (n.) A looseness; diarrhea.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) As Russian companies Polymetal, Polyus Gold and Evraz race to join Eurasian Natural Resources as FTSE100 companies, despite their murky practices, because of London's incredibly lax listing requirements, one future scenario is becoming clearer.
  • (2) These blood flow and temperature changes also occurred when ELV animals were subjected to simultaneous LAX.
  • (3) The universal credit scheme has been overseen by "alarmingly weak" management, with systems so lax that a secretary was allowed to authorise purchase orders worth £23m , according to the public accounts committee.
  • (4) Approximately 27% of the individuals had 1 lax joint, whereas only 3% possessed all 5 features.
  • (5) Traders, enabled by lax futures regulations, are perhaps the only people to see the bright side of the beating sun.
  • (6) The retracted lower eyelid is tight in contrast to the lax lower eyelid of the common involutional ectropion.
  • (7) Roundish cells, appearing to be myofibroblasts surrounded by a more lax connective tissue and elastic fibers, were found close to the Dacron threads.
  • (8) Although only flights to Sharm have been suspended, there is worry about Egyptian airports in general over alleged lax screening amid heightened fears over terrorism, a security source said.
  • (9) The coroner cited "inadequate" training and "lax" supervision as factors in the tragedies.
  • (10) These include eyelid laxity with or without atrophic orbicularis muscle tone, lax canthal tendons, hypoplastic malar eminences, unrecognized Graves' ophthalmopathy, unilateral high myopia, or the secondary blepharoplasty.
  • (11) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Donald Trump comments on death of Dwyane Wade’s cousin – video Welcome to Iowa, where Trump's purple patch could turn a blue state red Read more Pence rejected a suggestion by CNN host Jake Tapper that lax gun safety laws in his own state, Indiana, may be stoking violence in Chicago.
  • (12) Obama administration officials had promised to toughen the lax environmental regulations of the George Bush era.
  • (13) This decade, on the other hand, has been relatively lax when it comes to pumping out neuron-destroying musical inanity.
  • (14) The apparently lax oversight of the company's financial regime by the energy regulator was heavily criticised last week by Tim Yeo, the former chairman of parliament's energy and climate change committee.
  • (15) The examination of parental attitude in dealing with the possibility of accidents (instructive, lax or repressive) did not allow us to demonstrate in any significant way the influence of these attitudes on accidental morbidity.
  • (16) To date, they have been too lax, and moved too slowly, allowing racists a free rein.” Cooper called on “companies like Twitter to take stronger action against hate crimes on their platforms”.
  • (17) All emergency department, LAX first-aid station, and paramedic records were examined.
  • (18) Why so tough on skilled migrants and so lax on boat arrivals?
  • (19) Analysts have for years been complaining about what they believe to be lax accounting standards in Britain's travel industry, where one-off write-offs are not uncommon.
  • (20) In order to address those concerns the two companies gave up gate slots and takeoffs at major US airports including Washington DC’s Reagan national, New York’s LaGuardia, Boston's Logan and LAX in Los Angeles.

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