Definitions for wax

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wax wax

Spelling: [waks]

IPA: /wæks/

Wax is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 5 anagrams from letters in wax (awx).

Definitions for wax

noun

1. Also called beeswax. a solid, yellowish, nonglycerine substance allied to fats and oils, secreted by bees, plastic when warm and melting at about 145°F, variously employed in making candles, models, casts, ointments, etc., and used by bees in constructing their honeycomb.
2. any of various similar substances, as spermaceti or the secretions of certain insects and plants. Compare vegetable wax, wax insect.
3. any of a group of substances composed of hydrocarbons, alcohols, fatty acids, and esters that are solid at ordinary temperatures.
4. cerumen; earwax.
5. a resinous substance used by shoemakers for rubbing thread.
6. sealing wax.
7. a person or object suggesting wax, as in manageability or malleability:
8. a fit of anger; rage.

Idioms

1. whole ball of wax, Slang. the entire or overall plan, concept, action, result, or the like: everything of a similar or related nature:

adjective

1. pertaining to, made of, or resembling wax:

verb (used with object)

1. to rub, smear, stiffen, polish, etc., with wax:
2. to fill the crevices of (ornamental marble) with colored material.
3. bikini wax.
4. Informal. to make a phonograph recording of.
5. Slang. to defeat decisively; drub:

verb (used without object)

1. to increase in extent, quantity, intensity, power, etc.:
2. (of the moon) to increase in the extent of its illuminated portion before the full moon. Compare wane (def 4).
3. to grow or become:

Origin of wax

before 900; (noun) Middle English wex, waxe, Old English weax; cognate with Dutch was, German Wachs, Old Norse vax; (v.) Middle English wexen, derivative of the noun

Examples for wax

Place the flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt on parchment or wax paper.

I promised never again to wax lyrical about the fries in gravy.

When he at last reappeared he was white as wax, distressed, anxious, but still resolute.

In those days men fastened their letters and receipts and bills with wax.

Marriott was lighting the six wax candles on the dressing-table.

While the wax was soft they stamped their names in it with a metal seal.

Inside the wax floored examining room, I sat up on the powder blue table with my shirt off.

Full disclosure: I briefly worked for Torres at his current magazine, wax Poetics.

It ain't made of wax nor anything else that folks ever made.

Once dried, a liquid, such as plaster, wax, or bronze, is poured in for a perfect representation of the face.