wax

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n. 蜡, 蜡状物, 一阵发怒, 增加, (月亮)渐盈 vi. 变大, 增大, 月亮渐满 vt. 上蜡于

发音

US /wæks/
AU /wæks/
其它 /wɛks/

词形变化

waxes 复数 waxes 三单 waxing 现在分词 waxed 过去式 waxed 过去分词 wex 过去式 wox 过去式 wex 过去分词 wox 过去分词 waxen 过去式 waxen 过去分词

教材释义与例句

形容词

蜡制的；似蜡的

释义与例句

n. B1
  1. 1.

    Beeswax.

    可数 不可数
  2. 2.

    Earwax.

    可数 不可数

    What role does the wax in your earhole fulfill?

  3. 3.

    Any oily, water-resistant, solid or semisolid substance; normally long-chain hydrocarbons, alcohols or esters.

    蜡

    蜜蜡

    可数 不可数
  4. 4.

    Any preparation containing wax, used as a polish.

    可数 不可数
  5. 5.

    The phonograph record format for music.

    非正式 不可数 音乐 可数
  6. 6.

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

    美国 可数 方言 不可数
  7. 7.

    Any of a class of drugs with weed oil and butane as main ingredients; hash oil.

    美国 可数 俚语 不可数

    He was charged with two felonies, for possession of Xanax and wax.

  8. 1.

    The process of growing.

    罕用 不可数
  9. 1.

    An outburst of anger, a loss of temper, a fit of rage.

    非正式 过时
v. B1
  1. 1.

    To coat with wax or a similar material.

    及物

    waxed silk

  2. 2.

    To form a wax (a thick maple syrup).

    不及物
  3. 1.

    To apply wax to (something, such as a shoe, a floor, a car, or an apple), usually to make it shiny.

    及物
  4. 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.

    蜜蜡脱毛

    热蜡脱毛

    及物
  5. 3.

    To defeat utterly.

    非正式 及物
  6. 4.

    To kill, especially to murder a person.

    俚语 及物
  7. 5.

    To record.

    古体 及物
  8. 1.

    To greaten.

    不及物 文学

    Holonym: wax and wane

  9. 2.

    To increasingly assume the specified characteristic.

    不及物 文学

    Near-synonyms: become, get, go, turn, come, fall, grow

    to wax poetic

    to wax wode

    to wax eloquent

  10. 3.

    To appear larger each night as a progression from a new moon to a full moon.

    盈

    渐盈

    不及物
  11. 4.

    To move from low tide to high tide.

    不及物
adj.
  1. 1.

    Made of wax.

词汇关系

名词

上位词 3

lipid lipide lipoid

下位词 10

beeswax paraffin candelilla wax carnauba carnauba wax ceresin cerumen earwax Japan tallow Japan wax
动词

同义词 4

full rise climb mount

反义词 1

wane

上位词 2

cover increase

下位词 4

jump advance gain beeswax

相关短语

wax bean n. 黄荚种菜豆 wax myrtle n. 杨梅属之植物 wax myrtles wax end wax apple 莲雾、洋蒲桃、蒜果、茶泡 wax plant 毯兰 wax museum 蜡像馆 wax museums wax paper 蜡纸 [医] 蜡纸 wax and wane 月的盈亏, 圆缺, (喻)盛衰 wax gourd wax apples wax wode wax moth [昆虫]大蜡螟[亦作 bee moth] wax poetic

词源

From Middle English wax, from Old English weax, from Proto-Germanic *wahsą, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *woḱ-so-. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Woaks (“wax”), West Frisian waaks (“wax”), Dutch was (“wax”), German Wachs (“wax”), German Low German Wass (“wax”), Luxembourgish Wuess (“wax”), Vilamovian wāhs (“wax”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk voks (“wax”), Faroese vaks (“wax”), Icelandic, Swedish vax (“wax”); and with Lithuanian vaškas (“wax”), Proto-Slavic *voskъ (“wax”).

来源：wiktionary