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What (who) is wax - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Wax (band); WAX; Wax (album)
wax
![A wax coating makes this [[Manila hemp]] waterproof](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/49-QWSTION-BANANATEX-FABRIC.jpg?width=200 "A wax coating makes this [[Manila hemp]] waterproof")
![A [[lava lamp]] is a novelty item that contains wax melted from below by a bulb. The wax rises and falls in decorative, molten blobs.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Lavalampe.jpg?width=200 "A [[lava lamp]] is a novelty item that contains wax melted from below by a bulb. The wax rises and falls in decorative, molten blobs.")
![Ceroline brand wax for floors and furniture, first half of 20th century. From the [[Museo del Objeto del Objeto]] collection](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/MODOCeroline.jpg?width=200 "Ceroline brand wax for floors and furniture, first half of 20th century. From the [[Museo del Objeto del Objeto]] collection")
(waxes, waxing, waxed)
1.
Wax is a solid, slightly shiny substance made of fat or oil which is used to make candles and polish. It melts when it is heated.
There were coloured candles which had spread pools of wax on the furniture...
She loved the scent in the house of wax polish.
N-MASS
2.
If you wax a surface, you put a thin layer of wax onto it, especially in order to polish it.
We'd have long talks while she helped me wax the floor.
VERB: V n
3.
If you have your legs waxed, you have the hair removed from your legs by having wax put on them and then pulled off quickly.
She has just had her legs waxed at the local beauty parlour...
She could go shopping, and wax her legs.
VERB: have n V-ed, V n
4.
Wax is the sticky yellow substance found in your ears.
N-UNCOUNT
5.
If you say that someone, for example, waxes lyrical or waxes indignant about a subject, you mean that they talk about it in an enthusiastic or indignant way.
He waxed lyrical about the skills and commitment of his employees...
My mother waxed eloquent on the theme of wifely duty.
VERB: V adj, V adj
6.
If something waxes and wanes, it first increases and then decreases over a period of time.
Portugal and Spain had possessed vast empires that waxed and waned.
PHRASE: Vs inflect
wax
wax1
¦ noun
1. beeswax.
a white translucent material obtained by bleaching and purifying beeswax, used to make candles and polishes.
any similar viscous substance, especially a lipid or hydrocarbon.
2. informal used in reference to gramophone records.
¦ verb
1. polish or treat with wax.
remove hair from (a part of the body) by applying wax and then peeling it off with the hairs.
2. informal make a recording of.
Derivatives
waxer noun
waxing noun
Origin
OE w?x, weax, of Gmc origin.
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wax2
¦ verb
1. (of the moon) have a progressively larger part of its visible surface illuminated, so that it appears to increase in size.
2. literary become larger or stronger.
3. speak or write in the specified manner: they waxed lyrical about the old days.
Origin
OE weaxan, of Gmc origin.
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wax3
¦ noun Brit. informal, dated a fit of anger.
Origin
C19: origin uncertain; perh. from phrs such as wax angry.
wax
I
n. sealing wax
II
v.
1) (s) ('to become') to wax indignant; to wax eloquent over ('to express one's enthusiasm concerning')
2) (misc.) to wax and wane
Wikipedia
Wax (disambiguation)
Wax is a class of chemical compounds and mixtures, but may also refer to:
Examples of use of wax
1. More than 20 wax gourd food including wax gourd kimchi, wax gourd scallop broth soup and wax gourd chicken soup prepared by the Pothonggang Hotel also enjoyed popularity.
2. She provided the following information on wax statues÷ "The wax statues we made in Russia cost $6,000.
3. Roosevelt are missing their clothes and Fred Flintstone and the Teletubbies are just plain missing after a raid on wax figures owned by Ireland‘s National Wax Museum.
4. There are specialists in glide wax and specialists in kick wax, the stuff that gives racers the grip to ski straight up hills in classical–technique races.
5. Ballot boxes were sealed with red wax and white thread.