wax

(Inglês)

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.

Oposto de

wane

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/wæks/

Etimologia (Inglês)

Herdado de inglês médio: wax

Herdado de inglês arcaico: weax

Cognato com Saterfriesisch: Woaks

Cognato com frísio ocidental: waaks

Cognato com holandês: was

Cognato com alemão: Wachs

Cognato com norueguês: voks

Cognato com lituano: vaškas

Herdado de inglês médio: waxen

Herdado de inglês arcaico: weaxan

Cognato com scots: wax

Cognato com frísio ocidental: waakse

Cognato com baixo alemão: wassen

Cognato com holandês: wassen

Cognato com alemão: wachsen

Cognato com dinamarquês: -

Cognato com norueguês: -

Cognato com sueco: växa

Cognato com islandês: vaxa

Cognato com gótico: 𐍅𐌰𐌷𐍃𐌾𐌰𐌽

Cognato com grego arcaico: ἀέξω

Cognato com latim: 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”).

Conceitos

cera

crescer

encerar

aumentar

avultar

engraxar

tornar-se

ceroso

céreo

cera de abelha

ficar

subir

virar

de cera

falar

🗣️

Sinônimos

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

Traduções

cire

cera

Wachs

cera

κερί

wosk

was

🧽

croître

crescere

wachsen

wassen

🧽

cera

crecer

cera

cirer