wax
Short definition from Wiktionary
Noun
- Beeswax.
- Earwax.
- Any oily, water-resistant, solid or semisolid substance; normally long-chain hydrocarbons, alcohols or esters.
- Any preparation containing wax, used as a polish.
- The phonograph record format for music.
- A thick syrup made by boiling down the sap of the sugar maple and then cooling it.
- Any of a class of drugs with weed oil and butane as main ingredients; hash oil.
- The process of growing.
- An outburst of anger, a loss of temper, a fit of rage.
Adjective
- Made of wax.
Verb
- To coat with wax or a similar material.
- To apply wax to (something, such as a shoe, a floor, a car, or an apple), usually to make it shiny.
- 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.
- To defeat utterly.
- To kill, especially to murder a person.
- To record.
- To greaten.
- To increasingly assume the specified characteristic.
- To appear larger each night as a progression from a new moon to a full moon.
- To move from low tide to high tide.
Proper noun
- A surname.
We haven’t written up wax yet: Simple and Standard meanings, examples and a quiz.