wax

Significado (Inglés)

Noun

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

Adj

Made of wax.

Verb

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

Verb

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

Conceptos

cera

crecer

encerar

cera de abeja

aumentar

lustrar

de cera

abultar

cerote

la cera

encerado

aceite

cebo

grasa

grasa injundia

manteca

sebo

lacre

aumentar de fase

incrementar la intensidad

devenir

bolear

depilar

esperma

cera de abejas

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/wæks/

Etimología (Inglés)

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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”), Norwegian voks (“wax”); and with Lithuanian vaškas (“wax”), Proto-Slavic *voskъ (“wax”).