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whole ball of wax

/waks/US // wæks //UK // (wæks) //

一团糟,一团乱麻,一团和气,团团转

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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

as inwhole
Synonyms
entity实体,实实体,实体,实实aggregate总计,总数,汇总,总量aggregation聚合,聚集,汇总,聚会all所有,全部,所有的,一切amount数量,数额,金额,量assemblage集合,组合,组装,集合体assembly集合,集会,集结,集合体being是,是的,是一个body尸体bulk散装,大量的,大批量,大宗coherence连贯性,一致性,协调性,贯通性combination组合,组合方式,组合体,组合式complex复杂的,复杂,复合,复合体ensemble合奏,集合,合并,集合体entirety全部,全部内容,整个,全部的fullness饱满,充满,充实,丰满gross总金额,总的来说,总额,总的说来integral不可分割的,不可分割的一部分,不可缺少的,不可或缺的jackpot大奖,头奖,大奖赛,奖金linkage联动,联动性,联系,链接lot很多,地段,大量,批量lump块状,肿块,坨坨,块状物oneness本体,合一,合一性,一体化organism生物体,有机体,机体,有机物organization组织,组织机构,机构,组织结构piece一块,一片,一件,块quantity数量,数量方面,数量上,数量上的quantum量子,量子化,量子力学,数量result结果,成果,效果,结果是sum总数,总和,总额,总结summation总结,求和,总和,和解supply供应,提供,补给,供应品system系统,制度,体系,系totality整体性,全部,整体,总体unit单位,装置unity统一性,统一,团结一致,团结big picture大图片,大照片,大画面,大图collectivity集体性,集体主义,集体行动,集体everything一切,一切都是,一切都,一切的一切hook line and sinker勾心斗角,勾肩搭背,勾线搭桥,钩线和沉降lock stock and barrel一股脑儿都是,一股脑儿都在想办法,一股脑儿都在想sum total合计,总数,总计,总和the works作品,工程,工作,著作whole enchilada整整一串,整整一卷,全套,整整一排whole nine yards全力以赴,九码,九码中特,全力以赴地whole shebang全副武装,全套,全盛时期,全套的
as inentirety
Synonyms
absoluteness绝对性,绝对的,绝对,绝对化aggregate总计,总数,汇总,总量completeness完整性,完备性,完整度,完全性complex复杂的,复杂,复合,复合体comprehensiveness全面性,综合性,广泛性,全面ensemble合奏,集合,合并,集合体entireness意识,认识,知名度,悟性fullness饱满,充满,充实,丰满gross总金额,总的来说,总额,总的说来intactness完好性,完整度,完好无损,完整无缺integrality综合性,整体性,整合性,集成性integrity诚信,完整性,廉洁,正直oneness本体,合一,合一性,一体化perfection完善,完美,完美的,完美性plenitude丰富性,丰富的内容,充实,丰富的资源sum总数,总和,总额,总结total共计,总计,共,总数totality整体性,全部,整体,总体unity统一性,统一,团结一致,团结universality普遍性,普及性,通用性,普及all所有,全部,所有的,一切allness所有的人,所有的人都是如此,所有的人都是这样collectiveness集体性,集体主义,集合性collectivity集体性,集体主义,集体行动,集体everything一切,一切都是,一切都,一切的一切omneity诚信,诚信度,诚信为本omnitude全能,全能性,全能的,全力以赴sum total合计,总数,总计,总和the works作品,工程,工作,著作undividedness不分裂性,不分割性,不分裂,不分彼此whole bit一点点,一点点地,一点点的,一点儿whole enchilada整整一串,整整一卷,全套,整整一排whole nine yards全力以赴,九码,九码中特,全力以赴地

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.