Waxname

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  A surname.

waxnoun詞源 1/waks/

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  Beeswax.

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  Earwax.

  • What role does the wax in your earhole fulfill?
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  Any oily, water-resistant, solid or semisolid substance; normally long-chain hydrocarbons, alcohols or esters.

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  Any preparation containing wax, used as a polish.

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  informalentertainmentlifestylemusicThe phonograph record format for music.

  • What really started the corn sprouting on Broadway was a lugubrious tune by Louisiana's Jimmie Davis called It Makes No Difference Now. In the late '30s Decca's Recording Chief David Kapp heard this Texas hit and got it on wax.
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  dialectalA thick syrup made by boiling down the sap of the sugar maple and then cooling it.

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  slangAny of a class of drugs with weed oil and butane as main ingredients; hash oil.

  • He was charged with two felonies, for possession of Xanax and wax.

waxadj詞源 1/waks/

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  Made of wax.

  • He looked round the poor room, at the distempered walls, and the bad engravings in meretricious frames, the crinkly paper and wax flowers on the chiffonier; and he thought of a room like Father Bryan's, with panelling, with cut glass, with tulips in silver pots, such a room as he had hoped to have for his own.

waxverb詞源 1/waks/

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  To coat with wax or a similar material.

  • waxed silk
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  To form a wax (a thick maple syrup).

  • The syrup is waxing. Come and help yourselves.

waxverb詞源 2/waks/

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  To apply wax to (something, such as a shoe, a floor, a car, or an apple), usually to make it shiny.

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  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.

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  informalTo defeat utterly.

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  slangTo kill, especially to murder a person.

  • "I was reassigned over from the 9th when the battalion CO got waxed on the road leading in." Ben kept his dismay to himself. Here was one more officer in the 90th who'd been on the job only hours or days, replacing commanders killed or wounded....
  • "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?"
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  archaicTo record.

waxverb詞源 3/waks/

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  literaryTo greaten.

  • Holonym: wax and wane
  • And then the whole quire hold their hips and laugh, And waxen in their mirth and neeze and swear A merrier hour was never wasted there.
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  literaryTo increasingly assume the specified characteristic.

  • Near-synonyms: become, get, go, turn, come, fall, grow
  • to wax poetic
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  To appear larger each night as a progression from a new moon to a full moon.

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  To move from low tide to high tide.

waxnoun詞源 3/waks/

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  rareThe process of growing.

waxnoun詞源 4/waks/

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  datedAn outburst of anger, a loss of temper, a fit of rage.

  • Father Arnall’s face looked very black but he was not in a wax: he was laughing.
  • ‘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!’