Wax
[wæks]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) any of various substances of either mineral origin or plant or animal origin; they are solid at normal temperatures and insoluble in water.
(verb.) go up or advance; 'Sales were climbing after prices were lowered'.
(verb.) increase in phase; 'the moon is waxing'.
(verb.) cover with wax; 'wax the car'.
阿黛尔編輯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. i.) To increase in size; to grow bigger; to become larger or fuller; -- opposed to wane.
(v. i.) To pass from one state to another; to become; to grow; as, to wax strong; to wax warmer or colder; to wax feeble; to wax old; to wax worse and worse.
(n.) A fatty, solid substance, produced by bees, and employed by them in the construction of their comb; -- usually called beeswax. It is first excreted, from a row of pouches along their sides, in the form of scales, which, being masticated and mixed with saliva, become whitened and tenacious. Its natural color is pale or dull yellow.
(n.) Hence, any substance resembling beeswax in consistency or appearance.
(n.) Cerumen, or earwax.
(n.) A waxlike composition used for uniting surfaces, for excluding air, and for other purposes; as, sealing wax, grafting wax, etching wax, etc.
(n.) A waxlike composition used by shoemakers for rubbing their thread.
(n.) A substance similar to beeswax, secreted by several species of scale insects, as the Chinese wax. See Wax insect, below.
(n.) A waxlike product secreted by certain plants. See Vegetable wax, under Vegetable.
(n.) A substance, somewhat resembling wax, found in connection with certain deposits of rock salt and coal; -- called also mineral wax, and ozocerite.
(n.) Thick sirup made by boiling down the sap of the sugar maple, and then cooling.
(v. t.) To smear or rub with wax; to treat with wax; as, to wax a thread or a table.
凯西整理
同義詞及近義詞:
v. a. Cere, smear with wax.
v. n. [1]. Increase (as the moon).[2]. Grow, become, come to be, get to be.
編輯:兰尼
解釋/意思:
n. the name given to some animal and vegetable substances and even to one or two mineral bodies (e.g. ozokerite) which more or less resemble beeswax both in their appearance and in their physical properties: the fat-like yellow substance produced by bees and used by them in making their cells: any substance like it as that in the ear: the substance used to seal letters: that used by shoemakers to rub their thread: in coal-mining puddled clay: a thick sugary substance made by boiling down the sap of the sugar-maple and cooling by exposure to the air: (coll.) a passion.—v.t. to smear or rub with wax.—ns. Wax′-bill one of various small spermestine seed-eating birds with bills like sealing-wax; Wax′-chand′ler a maker or dealer in wax candles; Wax′-cloth cloth covered with a coating of wax used for table-covers &c. a popular name for all oil floorcloths; Wax′-doll a child's doll having the head and bust made of hardened beeswax.—adj. Wax′en made of wax like wax easily effaced.—ns. Wax′-end better Waxed end a strong thread having its end stiffened by shoemakers' wax so as to go easily through the hole made by the awl; Wax′er one who or that which waxes; Wax′-flow′er a flower made of wax; Wax′iness waxy appearance; Wax′ing a method of putting a finish on dressed leather: the process of stopping out colours in calico-printing; Wax′-in′sect an insect which secretes wax; Wax′-light a candle or taper made of wax; Wax′-mod′elling the process of forming figures in wax; Wax′-moth a bee-moth; Wax′-myr′tle the candle-berry tree; Wax′-paint′ing a kind of painting the pigments for which are ground with wax and diluted with oil of turpentine; Wax′-palm either of two South American palms yielding wax; Wax′-pā′per paper prepared by spreading over its surface a thin coating made of white wax and other materials.—adj. Wax′-red (Shak.) bright-red like sealing-wax.—ns. Wax′tree a genus of plants of natural order Hypericace all whose species yield a yellow resinous juice when wounded forming when dried the so-called American gamboge; Wax′-wing a genus of small Passerine birds so named from most of the species having small red horny appendages resembling red sealing-wax on their wings; Wax′work work made of wax esp. figures or models formed of wax: (pl.) an exhibition of wax figures; Wax′worker.—adj. Wax′y resembling wax: soft: pallid pasty: adhesive: (slang) irate incensed.—Waxy degeneration a morbid process in which the healthy tissue of various organs is transformed into a peculiar waxy albuminous substance—also amyloid or lardaceous degeneration.
v.i. to grow or increase esp. of the moon as opposed to Wane: to pass into another state.—pa.p. Wax′en (B.) grown.
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例句/造句/用法:
- I could tell you tales of cobbler's wax which would disgust you with human nature. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- By the above singular manner of building, strength is continually given to the comb, with the utmost ultimate economy of wax. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- The only circumstance in connection with them that at all struck me was that the seal lay tidily in the tray with the pencils and the wax. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Boil lightly for fifteen minutes, allow to cool, and then skim off the wax which floats on the surface. 威廉K.大衛. 智者、化學家和偉大醫生的秘密.
- They will work, as I have seen, with wax hardened with vermilion or softened with lard. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- The latest improvement in chemical matches is the Vesta, which consists of small wax, or stearine tapers, with an igniting composition at the end, consisting of chlorate of potass and phosphorus. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- Meantime the wax candle and the Argand oil lamp held their own bravely. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- He waxes strong in all violence and lawlessness; and is ready for any deed of daring that will supply the wants of his rabble-rout. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- That sky with its high and light clouds which are sure to melt away as the day waxes warm--this placid and balmly atmosphere? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- The ladies, since the gentlemen entered, have become lively as larks; conversation waxes brisk and merry. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- From Spain the voice of a trumpet has sounded long; it now waxes louder and louder; it proclaims Salamanca won. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- While the record is being traced the waxed disc is kept flooded with alcohol from a glass jar, seen in the cut, to soften the film and prevent the clogging of the stylus. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- They spun on the left foot, and kept themselves going by passing the right rapidly before it and digging it against the waxed floor. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- As the waxed disc and pan are revolved, the stylus and diaphragm are gradually moved by gears toward the center of the disc. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- The son was born, grew, waxed strong, died. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Their cardboard boxes were wrapped and tied neatly with waxed twine. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- So we all rode down to Magdala, while the gnashing of teeth waxed and waned by turns, and harsh words troubled the holy calm of Galilee. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- A dapper little man, with a quick, alert manner and a waxed moustache, had just descended from a high dog-cart. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- A further process of paring and graining makes it ready for waxing or coloring, in which oil and lampblack are used on the flesh side. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Lastly, the aim of following nature means to note the origin, the waxing, and waning, of preferences and interests. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- I looked at Adele, whose head leant against my shoulder; her eyes were waxing heavy, so I took her up in my arms and carried her off to bed. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- Something of daylight still lingered, and the moon was waxing bright: I could see him plainly. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- Waxing a bed-tick, souls? 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- Fairway replied, and the waxing went on with unabated vigour. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
校對:斯坦顿