wax

Significat (Anglès)

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) Beeswax.
2. (countable, uncountable) Earwax.
3. (countable, uncountable) Any oily, water-resistant, solid or semisolid substance; normally long-chain hydrocarbons, alcohols or esters.
4. (countable, uncountable) Any preparation containing wax, used as a polish.
5. (informal, uncountable) The phonograph record format for music.
6. (US, countable, dialectal, uncountable) A thick syrup made by boiling down the sap of the sugar maple and then cooling it.
7. (US, countable, slang, uncountable) Any of a class of drugs with weed oil and butane as main ingredients; hash oil.

Adj

Made of wax.

Verb

To coat with wax or a similar material.

Verb

1. (transitive) To apply wax to (something, such as a shoe, a floor, a car, or an apple), usually to make it shiny.
2. (transitive) 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.
3. (informal, transitive) To defeat utterly.
4. (slang, transitive) To kill, especially to murder a person.
5. (archaic, transitive, usually) To record.

Verb

1. (intransitive, literary) To greaten.
2. (copulative, intransitive, literary) To increasingly assume the specified characteristic.
3. (intransitive) To appear larger each night as a progression from a new moon to a full moon.
4. (intransitive) To move from low tide to high tide.

Conceptes

cera

crèixer

créixer

encerar

tornar-se

cerós

augmentar

Oposat a

wane

Sinònims

grow

beeswax

polish

🇵🇱

increase

candle

🕯️

accrue

rise

mount

full

tallow

augment

climb

lacker

cere

amplify

cerumen

flourish

progress

prosper

varnish

become

get

grease

aggrandize

develop

heighten

earwax

suet

swell

thrive

oil

proliferate

raise

razor

🪒

row

rub

shaver

shine

ski wax

spoilt

stem

step up

vegetate

waxing

waxy

worn out

bourgeon

increase up

Beeswax

beef fat

Traduccions

cire

cera

Wachs

cera

cera

κερί

was

🧽

wassen

🧽

wachsen

croître

crescere

cera

crescer

crecer

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/wæks/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Heretat de anglès mitjà: wax

Heretat de anglès antic: weax

Cognat amb Saterfriesisch: Woaks

Cognat amb frisó occidental: waaks

Cognat amb neerlandès: was

Cognat amb alemany: Wachs

Cognat amb noruec: voks

Cognat amb lituà: vaškas

Heretat de anglès mitjà: waxen

Heretat de anglès antic: weaxan

Cognat amb escocès: wax

Cognat amb frisó occidental: waakse

Cognat amb baix alemany: wassen

Cognat amb neerlandès: wassen

Cognat amb alemany: wachsen

Cognat amb danès: -

Cognat amb noruec: -

Cognat amb suec: växa

Cognat amb islandès: vaxa

Cognat amb gòtic: 𐍅𐌰𐌷𐍃𐌾𐌰𐌽

Cognat amb grec antic: ἀέξω

Cognat amb llatí: auxilium

In summary

From Middle English wax, from Old English weax, from Proto-Germanic *wahsą, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *woḱ-so-.
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Woaks (“wax”), West Frisian waaks (“wax”), Dutch was (“wax”), German Wachs (“wax”), German Low German Wass (“wax”), Luxembourgish Wuess (“wax”), Vilamovian wāhs (“wax”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk voks (“wax”), Faroese vaks (“wax”), Icelandic, Swedish vax (“wax”); and with Lithuanian vaškas (“wax”), Proto-Slavic *voskъ (“wax”).