wax

Significado (Inglés)

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.

Conceptos

cera

crecer

encerar

cera de abeja

aumentar

lustrar

🇵🇱

grasa

manteca

sebo

bolear

🇵🇱

cebo

cerote

depilar

devenir

la cera

lacre

grasa injundia

aumentar de fase

abultar

incrementar la intensidad

aceite

cera de abejas

de cera

encerado

esperma

Opuesto a

wane

Sinónimos

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

Traducciones

cire

Wachs

cera

cera

κερί

was

🧽

croître

crescere

wachsen

wassen

🧽

crescer

cera

cera

cirer

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/wæks/

Etimología (Inglés)

Heredado de inglés medio: wax

Heredado de inglés antiguo: weax

Cognado con Saterfriesisch: Woaks

Cognado con frisón occidental: waaks

Cognado con neerlandés: was

Cognado con alemán: Wachs

Cognado con noruego: voks

Cognado con lituano: vaškas

Heredado de inglés medio: waxen

Heredado de inglés antiguo: weaxan

Cognado con escocés: wax

Cognado con frisón occidental: waakse

Cognado con bajo alemán: wassen

Cognado con neerlandés: wassen

Cognado con alemán: wachsen

Cognado con danés: -

Cognado con noruego: -

Cognado con sueco: växa

Cognado con islandés: vaxa

Cognado con gótico: 𐍅𐌰𐌷𐍃𐌾𐌰𐌽

Cognado con griego antiguo: ἀέξω

Cognado con latín: 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”).