wax

Signification (Anglais)

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.

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

Opposé de

wane

Synonymes

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

Traductions

cera

Wachs

cera

κερί

cera

was

🧽

wachsen

wassen

🧽

crescere

cera

crescer

crecer

cera

toenemen

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/wæks/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: wax

Hérité de ancien anglais: weax

Appartenant à saterlandais: Woaks

Appartenant à frison occidental: waaks

Appartenant à néerlandais: was

Appartenant à allemand: Wachs

Appartenant à norvégien: voks

Appartenant à lituanien: vaškas

Hérité de moyen anglais: waxen

Hérité de ancien anglais: weaxan

Appartenant à écossais: wax

Appartenant à frison occidental: waakse

Appartenant à bas-allemand: wassen

Appartenant à néerlandais: wassen

Appartenant à allemand: wachsen

Appartenant à danois: -

Appartenant à norvégien: -

Appartenant à suédois: växa

Appartenant à islandais: vaxa

Appartenant à gotique: 𐍅𐌰𐌷𐍃𐌾𐌰𐌽

Appartenant à grec ancien: ἀέξω

Appartenant à latin: 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”).