wax

Meaning

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.

Pronounced as (IPA)

/wæks/

Etymology

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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”).