Wax

Noun

 * 1) Beeswax.
 * 2) Earwax.
 * 3) Any oily, water-resistant substance; normally long-chain hydrocarbons, alcohols or esters.
 * 4) Any preparation containing wax, used as a polish.
 * 5) A phonograph record.

Synonyms

 * beeswax
 * cerumen, earwax
 * polish
 * disc/disk, record

Derived terms

 * ader wax
 * all wax and no wick
 * animal wax
 * anwax
 * baseplate wax
 * bayberry wax
 * beeswax
 * berry wax
 * bikini wax
 * bleached wax
 * blockout wax
 * bone wax
 * Born method of wax plate reconstruction
 * boxing wax
 * Brazil wax
 * Brazilian wax
 * butter of wax
 * California wax myrtle
 * candela wax
 * candelilla wax
 * candle wax
 * Carbowax
 * carding wax
 * carnauba wax
 * carving wax
 * car wax
 * casting wax
 * castor wax
 * ceresin wax
 * cetyl esters wax
 * chafe-wax, chafewax, chaff-wax, chaffwax
 * Chinese wax
 * close as wax
 * cobbler's wax, cobblers' wax
 * crystalline wax
 * cuticle wax
 * dental wax
 * dental inlay casting wax
 * dewax
 * earth wax, earthwax
 * ear wax, ear-wax, earwax
 * emulsifying wax
 * epilating wax
 * esparto wax
 * fig wax
 * Finnish yellow wax
 * fit like wax
 * floor wax
 * fossil wax
 * French wax
 * full up to dolly's wax
 * Geraldton wax
 * ghedda wax
 * glide wax
 * glitterwax
 * gondang wax
 * grafting wax
 * grave wax, grave-wax
 * greater wax moth
 * green wax, greenwax
 * grip wax
 * hair wax


 * hard wax
 * hot wax
 * hot-wax flooding
 * hot Hungarian wax pepper
 * Hungarian wax pepper
 * inlay casting wax
 * inlay casting wax, inlay pattern wax, inlay wax
 * insect wax
 * Japanese wax
 * Japan wax
 * keratin wax
 * kick wax
 * klister wax
 * lac wax
 * lad of wax, lad o' wax
 * lesser wax moth
 * lost wax
 * man of wax
 * medewax, medwax
 * microcrystalline wax
 * mind your beeswax, mind your own beeswax
 * mineral wax
 * modeling wax, modelling wax
 * montan wax
 * mortuary wax
 * moustache wax
 * myrtle wax
 * neat as wax
 * none of your beeswax
 * nose of wax
 * ouricury wax
 * Pacific wax myrtle
 * palm wax
 * paraffin wax, paraffin-wax
 * Parowax
 * peat wax
 * penetrating stain wax
 * petroleum wax
 * pisang wax
 * plant wax
 * polen wax
 * put on wax
 * release wax
 * rice bran wax
 * rough wax
 * scale wax
 * sealing-wax, sealing wax
 * seal-wax, sealwax
 * set-up wax
 * shellac wax
 * shoemakers' wax
 * ski wax
 * slack wax
 * soybean wax, soy wax
 * spermaceti wax
 * stick to someone like wax
 * surfboard wax
 * surf wax
 * TE/WAX/RAD
 * thermal wax printer
 * tight as wax


 * try-in wax
 * tubercle bacillus wax
 * unwax
 * utility wax
 * vegetable wax
 * virgin wax
 * walling wax
 * wax acid
 * wax alcohol
 * wax apple
 * wax bath
 * wax bean, waxbean
 * wax begonia
 * wax-berry, waxberry
 * wax-bill, waxbill
 * wax-billed
 * waxbird
 * wax bite
 * wax blockage
 * wax boot
 * wax-bred
 * wax-bush
 * wax-butter
 * wax candle
 * wax cap
 * wax-chandler
 * wax-chandlery, wax-chandry
 * wax cloth, wax-cloth, waxcloth
 * wax-cluster
 * wax-color, wax-colour
 * wax-comb
 * wax crayon
 * wax-creeper
 * wax-cup
 * wax cylinder
 * wax dip
 * wax doll


 * wax emulsion
 * waxen
 * wax end, wax-end
 * wax engraving
 * wax expansion
 * waxey
 * wax-eye
 * wax-farthing
 * wax figure
 * wax flower, wax-flower, waxflower
 * wax form
 * wax-gland
 * wax gourd
 * wax-hair
 * waxhead
 * wax-house
 * waxie
 * wax injection
 * wax injector
 * wax insect, wax-insect
 * wax jack
 * wax jambu
 * wax lancing
 * wax lathe
 * waxleaf privet


 * wax-leather
 * waxless skis
 * wax light, wax-light
 * wax-like, waxlike
 * wax-maker
 * wax-making
 * wax mallow, waxmallow
 * wax-man
 * wax model denture
 * wax-mold, wax-mould
 * wax moth, wax-moth
 * wax motor
 * wax museum
 * wax myrtle, wax-myrtle
 * wax-nose
 * wax-opal
 * wax painting, wax-painting
 * wax palm, wax-palm
 * wax paper, wax-paper
 * wax pattern
 * wax pear
 * wax pigment
 * wax-pine
 * wax-pink
 * wax plant, wax-plant, waxplant
 * wax play
 * wax pocket, wax-pocket
 * wax-pod bean
 * wax print
 * wax-proofed
 * wax-red
 * wax resist, wax-resist
 * wax ring
 * wax rose
 * wax-scot
 * wax shoe
 * wax-shot
 * wax-silver
 * wax size
 * wax stick
 * wax tablet
 * wax taper
 * wax test
 * wax-tipped bougie
 * wax tree, wax-tree
 * wax-type thermostat
 * wax vine
 * Waxweb
 * wax-weed
 * waxwing
 * wax wood
 * waxwork
 * wax-worker
 * wax-worm, waxworm
 * waxy
 * wax yellow
 * white wax
 * white wax tree
 * the whole ball of wax
 * wool wax
 * yellow wax
 * yellow wax pepper

Adjective

 * 1) Made of wax.

Synonyms

 * waxen

Derived terms
See under the noun section above

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)  To kill, especially to murder a person.
 * 4) * 2009, Dean R. Koontz and Ed Gorman, Dean Koontz's Frankenstein: City of Night, ISBN 9780553593334, p. 106:
 * "You telling me you know who really waxed him and your mom?"
 * "Yeah," she lied.
 * "Just who pulled the trigger or who ordered it to be pulled?"

Synonyms

 * polish
 * bump off, knock off

Derived terms

 * waxed
 * waxen


 * waxer
 * waxing


 * wax up

Verb

 * 1)  To increasingly assume the specified characteristic.
 * to wax lyrical; to wax eloquent
 * 1)  To grow.
 * 2) * 1602, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, act 1, sc. 3, lines 11-14,
 * For nature, crescent, does not grow alone / In thews and bulks, but, as this temple waxes, / The inward service of the mind and soul / Grows wide withal.
 * 1)  To appear larger each night as a progression from a new moon to a full moon.
 * 1)  To appear larger each night as a progression from a new moon to a full moon.

Synonyms

 * become

Antonyms

 * wane
 * wane

Derived terms

 * outwax
 * over-wax, overwax
 * thorough-wax, thoroughwax, thorow-wax
 * through-waxen
 * unwax
 * wax and wane


 * wax forth
 * wax in age
 * wax in eld
 * wax lyrical
 * wax poetic
 * wax to man's estate

Related terms

 * forthwax
 * forwax


 * packwax, paxwax, paxwaxy
 * taxwax
 * woadwaxen, woad-waxen, wood-wax, wood-waxen, woodwax, woodwaxen

Noun

 * 1)  The process of growing.

Derived terms

 * wax-kernel
 * waxless

Noun

 * 1)  An outburst of anger.
 * 2) * 1970, John Glassco, Memoirs of Montparnasse, New York 2007, p. 161:
 * ‘That's him to a T,’ she would murmur; or, ‘Just wait till he reads this’; or, ‘Ah, won't that put him in a wax!’

Derived terms

 * waxy

Adjectives for Wax
yielding; incorruptible; plastic; soft; dental.

Verbs for Wax
accumulate—; bleach—; candle—; collect—; derive—; extract—; fuse—; impress on—; model in—; mould—; plug with—; scrape —; seal with—; secrete—; wick—; yield—; —adheres; —melts; —polishes; —seals; — smooths; —waterproofs.

Adverbs for Wax
mightily; indignantly; boisterously; prodigiously; abnormally; spectacularly.

Thesaurus
accrue, accumulate, advance, aluminum oxide, ambergris, anoint, antifriction, appreciate, augment, auto polish, balloon, bear fruit, beeswax, black lead, bloat, bloom, blossom, blubber, boom, boost, breakthrough, breed, breeze, brew, broaden, buff, build, burgeon, burnish, butter, candelilla wax, carnauba wax, cartridge, cassette, cat fit, cerate, ceresin, clay, colcothar, come, come over, conniption, conniption fit, convulsion, corundum, crescendo, crocus, cushion, daub, develop, disc, dough, down, dress, duck fit, eiderdown, electrical transcription, embrocate, emery, emery board, emery paper, enlarge, evolute, evolve, expand, feather bed, feathers, fig wax, file, finish, fit, fit of anger, fit of temper, fleece, floor wax, floss, flourish, flower, flue, fluff, foam, fossil wax, furbish, gain, gain strength, garnet, gather, germinate, get, get ahead, glance, glaze, gloss, glycerin, glycerolate, go, go up, gondang wax, graphite, grease, grease the wheels, grow, grow up, hike, hypertrophy, increase, intensify, kapok, lac wax, lard, lubricant, lubricate, lubricating oil, lubricator, luster, maturate, mature, mellow, mineral wax, mount, mucilage, mucus, multiply, mushroom, nail file, oil, outgrow, overdevelop, overgrow, overtop, ozokerite, paraffin scale, paraffin wax, paroxysm, phonograph record, pillow, plumbago, plush, polish, polishes, pomade, procreate, progress, proliferate, pudding, puff, pullulate, pumice, pumice stone, putty, rage, rasp, record, recording, reproduce, ripen, rise, rottenstone, rouge, rub, rubber, run, run up, salve, sandpaper, satin, scale wax, scour, sealing wax, shine, shoe polish, shoot up, silicon carbide, silicone, silk, silver polish, ski wax, sleek, slick, slick down, slick on, smear, smooth the way, snowball, soap the ways, spread, spring up, sprout, sprout up, strengthen, swansdown, swell, tantrum, tape, tape cartridge, tape cassette, tape recording, temper tantrum, thistledown, thrive, tower, transcription, turn, unguent, upgrade, upshoot, upspear, upspring, upsprout, upsurge, varnish, vegetable wax, vegetate, velvet, widen, wire recording, wool, zephyr

Pronunciation

 * ,, {{SAMPA|/w{ks/}}

Etymology 1
wæx:, from, from. Cognate with Dutch was:, German Wachs:, Norwegian voks:; and with Lithuanian vaškas:, Russian воск:

Etymology 2
weaxan:, from, from. Cognate with Old Norse vaxa: (Danish vokse: (spelling before the writing reform of 1948: voxe:), West Frisian waakse:, Norwegian vokse:, Swedish växa:), German wachsen:, Dutch wassen:, Gothic 𐍅𐌰𐌷𐍃𐌾𐌰𐌽:; and with Ancient Greek ἀέξω:, Latin auxilium. It is in its turn cognate with augeo. See eke.

Etymology 3
Origin uncertain; probably from phrases like ‘to wax angry’ and similar (see Etymology 2, above).

Noun

 * Albanian: dyllë
 * Arabic:
 * Armenian:
 * Azeri:
 * Bosnian:
 * Breton: koar
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: cera
 * Chinese: 蜡 (là)
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Erzya: шта (shta)
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French: cire, fart (for skis)
 * Georgian: სანთელი (sant‘eli)
 * German:
 * Greek: ,
 * Hebrew: שעווה
 * Hindi: मोम
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Italian:


 * Japanese: 蝋 (ろう, rō)
 * Korean: 밀랍 (蜜蠟, milrap)
 * Latin:
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian: vaškas
 * Maltese: xama'
 * Norwegian: voks
 * Novial: vaxe
 * Old English:
 * Old High German: wahs
 * Persian: (mum)
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: восак
 * Roman: vosak
 * Shuar: míkia
 * Slovak: vosk
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish: ,
 * Vietnamese: sáp
 * Volapük: väk
 * Welsh: cŵyr


 * Dutch: was
 * Estonian:, poonimisvaha
 * Finnish:


 * Greek:
 * Japanese: ワックス


 * Finnish:


 * Georgian: ფირფიტაზე ჩანაწერი (p‘irp‘itaze čanats‘eri)


 * మైనం (mainaM) (1,2); గులిమి (gulimi) (3)

Adjective

 * Breton: koar
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish: vaha-;
 * French: de cire
 * German: wächsern, Wachs-
 * Greek:


 * Italian: di cera
 * Polish: woskowy, woskowa , woskowe
 * Romanian: de ceară
 * Russian: восковой
 * Slovene: voščen, voščena , voščeno
 * Spanish: de cera

Verb

 * Breton: koarañ
 * Czech: voskovat
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: wassen, was aanbrengen, met was insmeren
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: wichsen, bohnern wachsen


 * Greek: κηρώνω
 * Polish: woskować
 * Romanian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: ,
 * Slovene: voskati
 * Spanish:


 * Finnish: vahalla


 * Greek: κηρώνω, αποτριχώνω


 * vaksi

Verb

 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German:


 * Italian: ,
 * Portuguese: tornar-se


 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:, zunehmen


 * Greek: αυξάνομαι,
 * Italian:


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: (漸)盈
 * Finnish:
 * French:


 * German:
 * Greek: γεμίζει
 * Italian:

Noun

 * Dutch: wassen, aanwassen


 * Finnish: