WAX

Wax

Waxes are a class of chemical compounds that are plastic near ambient temperatures. Characteristically, they melt above 45 °C to give a low viscosity liquid. Waxes are insoluble in water but soluble in organic, nonpolar solvents. All waxes are organic compounds, both synthetic and naturally occurring.

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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.
  6. A thick syrup made by boiling down the sap of the sugar maple and then cooling it.

Noun (etymology 2)

  1. The process of growing.

Noun (etymology 3)

  1. An outburst of anger.

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 defeat utterly.
  4. To kill, especially to murder a person.
  5. To record.

Verb (etymology 2)

  1. To increasingly assume the specified characteristic, become.
    to wax lyrical; to wax eloquent, to wax wode
  2. To grow.
  3. To appear larger each night as a progression from a new moon to a full moon.

Adjective

  1. Made of wax.


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