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wax
1. Substantiv:
2. [1] im weitesten Sinn: ein Stoff unterschiedlicher Herkunft der durch seine mechanisch-physikalischen Eigenschaften definiert wird
3. [1a] im engeren Sinn assoziiert mit dem von Bienen abgesonderten Stoff, Bienenwachs
4. [1b] Wachs für Politur, zum Beispiel für Schuhe
5. [1c] Siegellack oder Siegelwachs
6. [2] ein waxartiges Sekret/Absonderung Ohrenschmalz
[1] „Madame Tussauds“ is a wax museum. There are celebrities cloned by wax.
„Madame Tussauds“ is ein Wachsmuseum. Dort gibt es Berühmtheiten die aus Wachs nachgebildet sind.
[1a] Hello, I like to buy a couple of candles made of beewax.
Hallo, ich würde gerne ein Paar Kerzen aus Bienenwachs kaufen.
[1b] Look at my boots, they look wonderful after being polished by wax.
Schau dir meine Stiefel an, sie sehen wunderbar aus, nachdem sie mit Wachs poliert wurden.
Englisch > Englisch
wax
1. subst. Beeswax.
2. subst. Earwax.
What role does the wax in your earhole fulfill?
3. subst. Any oily, water-resistant substance; normally long-chain hydrocarbons, alcohols or esters.
4. subst. Any preparation containing wax, used as a polish.
5. subst. The phonograph record format for music.
6. subst. (US, dialect) A thick syrup made by boiling down the sap of the sugar maple and then cooling it.
7. subst. (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. subst. (rare) The process of growing.
20. subst. (dated, colloquial) An outburst of anger.
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Wachs
1. subst. wax
2. subst. (ornithology) cere

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Maybe I should put some wax paper in there, make it look like they came from home.  It is hastily wrapped in the wax paper.  You mean, like mannequins or wax figures?  A brass face and wax moustaches!  Cake, the frosting sticking to the wax paper, wipes it up with his finger.

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