wax

Signification (English)

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.

Concepts

cire

croître

fart

cirer

augmenter

devenir

de cire

grandir

cire d’abeille

encaustiquer

🇵🇱

cirons

cire jaune

cérumen

cireux

élever

entier

gras

monter

plein

cire d’abeilles

Synonyms

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

mutton fat

burgeon forth

process of waxing

cerin

waxy simoniz

Earwax

attain

be

boom

💥

brighten

build

build up

burgeon

burnish

butter

🧈

cerium

coat

🧥

come

depilatory

enamel

enlarge

epilate

expand

fat

furbish

gather

gloss

growth

gum

honey

🍯

honey bee

lacquer

lard

magnify

multiply

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/wæks/

Étymologie (English)

Inherited from moyen anglais: wax

Inherited from ancien anglais: weax

Cognate with saterlandais: Woaks

Cognate with frison occidental: waaks

Cognate with néerlandais: was

Cognate with allemand: Wachs

Cognate with norvégien: voks

Cognate with lituanien: vaškas

Inherited from moyen anglais: waxen

Inherited from ancien anglais: weaxan

Cognate with écossais: wax

Cognate with frison occidental: waakse

Cognate with bas-allemand: wassen

Cognate with néerlandais: wassen

Cognate with allemand: wachsen

Cognate with danois: -

Cognate with norvégien: -

Cognate with suédois: växa

Cognate with islandais: vaxa

Cognate with gotique: 𐍅𐌰𐌷𐍃𐌾𐌰𐌽

Cognate with grec ancien: ἀέξω

Cognate with latin: auxilium

In summary

table
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”).