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- [oks]
- /ɒks/
- /ɒks/
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- [oks]
- /ɒks/
Definitions of ox word
- noun plural ox the adult castrated male of the genus Bos, used chiefly as a draft animal. 1
- noun plural ox any member of the bovine family. 1
- noun plural ox Informal. a clumsy, stupid fellow. 1
- noun ox animal 1
- noun Technical meaning of ox (language, tool) A preprocessor, written by Kurt Bischoff of Iowa State University, that extends and generalises the syntax and semantics of Yacc, Lex, and C. Ox's support of LALR1 grammars generalises yacc in the way that attribute grammars generalise context-free grammars. It augments Yacc and Lex specifications with definitions of synthesised and inherited attributes written in C syntax. Ox checks these specifications for consistency and completeness, and generates a program that builds and decorates attributed parse trees. Ox accepts a most general class of attribute grammars. The user may specify postdecoration traversals for easy ordering of side effects such as code generation. Info: <[email protected]>. 1
- countable noun ox An ox is a bull that has been castrated. Oxen are used in some countries for pulling vehicles or carrying things. 0
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Origin of ox
First appearance:
before 900 One of the 4% oldest English words
before 900; Middle English oxe, Old English oxa; cognate with Old Frisian oxa, Old Saxon, Old High German ohso, Old Norse uxi, oxi; akin to Welsh ych
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Parts of speech for Ox
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pronoun
preposition
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determiner
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ox popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 92% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
ox usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for ox
noun ox
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noun ox
- handyman — a person hired to do various small jobs, especially in the maintenance of an apartment building, office building, or the like.
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