wax

Signification (Anglais)

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

cirer

fart

augmenter

de cire

devenir

grandir

cire d’abeille

encaustiquer

gras

cireux

monter

élever

entier

plein

cirons

cérumen

cire d’abeilles

cire jaune

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/wæks/

Étymologie (Anglais)

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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”).