Le mot anglais du jour

wax

cire

Définitions

anglais > français
wax
1. n. Cire.
2. n. Vinyle (matière).
3. n. Vinyle (disque).
4. adj. De cire.
5. v. Cirer.
6. v. (Soutenu) Croître.
anglais > anglais
wax
1. n. Beeswax.
2. n. Earwax.
What role does the wax in your earhole fulfill?
3. n. Any oily, water-resistant substance; normally long-chain hydrocarbons, alcohols or esters.
4. n. Any preparation containing wax, used as a polish.
5. n. The phonograph record format for music.
6. n. (US, dialect) A thick syrup made by boiling down the sap of the sugar maple and then cooling it.
7. n. (US, slang) A type of drugs with as main ingredients weed oil and butane; hash oil
8. adj. Made of wax.
9. v. To apply wax to (something, such as a shoe, a floor, a car, or an apple), usually to make it shiny.
10. v. 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.
11. v. (transitive, informal) To defeat utterly.
12. v. (transitive, slang) To kill, especially to murder a person.
13. v. (transitive archaic usually of a musical or oral performance) To record.
14. v. (intransitive) To increase (phase of the Moon or other planet). Example The Moon is waxing.
15. v. (intransitive, with adjective) To increasingly assume the specified characteristic, become.
to wax lyrical; to wax eloquent; to wax wode
16. v. (intransitive, literary) To grow.
17. v. (intransitive, of the moon) To appear larger each night as a progression from a new moon to a full moon.
18. v. (intransitive, of the tide) To move from low tide to high tide.
19. n. (rare) The process of growing.
20. n. (dated, colloquial) An outburst of anger.
français > anglais
cire
1. n-f. wax
2. n-f. beeswax
3. n-f. earwax
4. n-f. sealing wax
5. n-f. (wax) taper (wax candle)
6. n-f. cere