wax
nounEtymology
From Middle English waxen, from Old English weaxan (“to wax, grow, be fruitful, increase, become powerful, flourish”), from Proto-West Germanic *wahsan, from Proto-Germanic *wahsijaną (“to grow”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂weg- (“to grow, increase”). Cognate with Scots wax (“to grow”), West Frisian waakse (“to greaten”), Low German wassen, Dutch wassen (“to greaten”), German wachsen (“to greaten”), Danish and Norwegian vokse (“to greaten”), Swedish växa (“to greaten”), Icelandic vaxa (“to greaten”), Gothic 𐍅𐌰𐌷𐍃𐌾𐌰𐌽 (wahsjan, “to grow”); and with Ancient Greek ἀέξειν (aéxein), Latin auxilium. It is in its turn cognate with augeo. See eke.
Definitions
Beeswax.
Earwax.
- What role does the wax in your earhole fulfill?
Any oily, water-resistant, solid or semisolid substance
Any oily, water-resistant, solid or semisolid substance; normally long-chain hydrocarbons, alcohols or esters.
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Any preparation containing wax, used as a polish.
The phonograph record format for music.
- What really started the corn sprouting on Broadway was a lugubrious tune by Louisiana's Jimmie Davis called It Makes No Difference Now. In the late '30s Decca's Recording Chief David Kapp heard this Texas hit and got it on wax.
A thick syrup made by boiling down the sap of the sugar maple and then cooling it.
Any of a class of drugs with weed oil and butane as main ingredients
Any of a class of drugs with weed oil and butane as main ingredients; hash oil.
- He was charged with two felonies, for possession of Xanax and wax.
Made of wax.
To coat with wax or a similar material.
- waxed silk
To form a wax (a thick maple syrup).
- The syrup is waxing. Come and help yourselves.
To apply wax to (something, such as a shoe, a floor, a car, or an apple), usually to make…
To apply wax to (something, such as a shoe, a floor, a car, or an apple), usually to make it shiny.
To remove hair at the roots from (a part of the body) by coating the skin with a film of…
To remove hair at the roots from (a part of the body) by coating the skin with a film of wax that is then pulled away sharply.
To defeat utterly.
To kill, especially to murder a person.
- "You telling me you know who really waxed him and your mom?" "Yeah," she lied. "Just who pulled the trigger or who ordered it to be pulled?"
To record.
To greaten.
- Holonym: wax and wane
- And then the whole quire hold their hips and laugh, And waxen in their mirth and neeze and swear A merrier hour was never wasted there.
- For nature, crescent, does not grow alone In thews and bulks, but, as this temple waxes, The inward service of the mind and soul Grows wide withal.
To increasingly assume the specified characteristic.
- Near-synonyms: become, get, go, turn, come, fall, grow
- to wax poetic
- to wax wode
To appear larger each night as a progression from a new moon to a full moon.
To move from low tide to high tide.
The process of growing.
An outburst of anger, a loss of temper, a fit of rage.
- father Arnall's face looked very black but he was not in a wax: he was laughing.
- ‘That's him to a T,’ she would murmur; or, ‘Just wait till he reads this’; or, ‘Ah, won't that put him in a wax!’
A surname.
The neighborhood
Derived
shax, wax down, waxed, waxen, waxer, waxing, wax on, wax someone's tail, wax the dolphin, wax up
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at wax. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at wax. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
5 hops · closes at wax
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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