wax

Senso (Inglese)

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.

Concetti

cera

crescere

incerare

diventare

divenire

cera d’api

olio

salire

créscere

sebo

dare la cera a

aumentare

cerare

burro

🧈

di cera

grasso

incrementare

ingrandire

Opposto di

wane

sinonimi

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

Traduzioni

cire

cera

Wachs

cera

κερί

was

🧽

croître

wassen

🧽

wachsen

crescer

cera

crecer

cera

cirer

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/wæks/

Etimologia (Inglese)

Ereditato da inglese medio: wax

Ereditato da inglese antico: weax

Affine saterfriesisch: Woaks

Affine frisone occidentale: waaks

Affine olandese: was

Affine tedesco: Wachs

Affine norvegese: voks

Affine lituano: vaškas

Ereditato da inglese medio: waxen

Ereditato da inglese antico: weaxan

Affine scozzese: wax

Affine frisone occidentale: waakse

Affine basso tedesco: wassen

Affine olandese: wassen

Affine tedesco: wachsen

Affine danese: -

Affine norvegese: -

Affine svedese: växa

Affine islandese: vaxa

Affine gotico: 𐍅𐌰𐌷𐍃𐌾𐌰𐌽

Affine greco antico: ἀέξω

Affine latino: 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”).