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wax

/waks/US // wæks //UK // (wæks) //

蜡像,蜡,蜡质,蜡笔小新

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 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.
    • : any of various similar substances, as spermaceti or the secretions of certain insects and plants.Compare vegetable wax, wax insect.
    • : any of a group of substances composed of hydrocarbons, alcohols, fatty acids, and esters that are solid at ordinary temperatures.
    • : earwax; cerumen.
    • : a resinous substance used by shoemakers for rubbing thread.
    • : sealing wax.
    • : a person or object suggesting wax, as in manageability or malleability: I am helpless wax in your hands.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to rub, smear, stiffen, polish, etc., with wax: to wax the floor.
    • : to fill the crevices of with colored material.
    • : bikini wax.
    • : Informal. to make a phonograph recording of.
    • : Slang. to defeat decisively; drub: We waxed the competition.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : pertaining to, made of, or resembling wax: a wax candle; a wax doll.

Phrases

  • wax and wane
  • whole ball of wax

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • Online multiplayer gamesThe popularity of various multiplayer games waxes and wanes.

  • Since the portions are wrapped in wax paper, they can be easily separated.

  • The faster the economy is waxing, the more profitable new investments become, and the more companies compete for the capital needed to fund those investments.

  • Repeat once or twice, then dry completely overnight before waxing again.

  • Flushing out every bit of it means there’s nothing to attract dirt, and it also makes room for the wax to penetrate and bond to the chain.

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

  • Alastair Sim had jowls like melting candle wax, a snarl like a cornered cat and eyes cold with contempt.

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

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

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

  • Her eldest daughter married in America, and was well known as a modeller in wax in New York.

  • At length only four or five flames remained, feebly wavering in their pools of melted wax.

  • Two many-branched candelabra, holding wax lights, brilliantly illuminate the game.

  • Tories will wax eloquent on "the pink miasma of revolutionary Radicalism."

  • Frulein Timm belongs to the single sisterhood, but is one of the fresh and placid kind, and as neat as wax.