different between rise vs wax

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: r?z, IPA^(key): /?a?z/
• Rhymes: -a?z
• for the noun, in the US, also rarely IPA^(key): /?a?s/

Etymology 1

From Middle English risen, from Old English r?san, from Proto-Germanic *r?san?, from Proto-Indo-European *h?rey- (“to rise, arise”). See also raise.

Verb

rise (third-person singular simple present rises, present participle rising, simple past rose, past participle risen)

1. (intransitive) To move, or appear to move, physically upwards relative to the ground.
   1. To move upwards.

   2. To grow upward; to attain a certain height.

   3. To slope upward.

   4. (of a celestial body) To appear to move upwards from behind the horizon of a planet as a result of the planet's rotation.
      • 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet, Chapter 4,

        And still the hours passed, and at last I knew by the glimmer of light in the tomb above that the sun had risen again, and a maddening thirst had hold of me. And then I thought of all the barrels piled up in the vault and of the liquor that they held; and stuck not because 'twas spirit, for I would scarce have paused to sate that thirst even with molten lead.

   5. To become erect; to assume an upright position.

   6. To leave one's bed; to get up.
   7. (figuratively) To be resurrected.

   8. (figuratively) To terminate an official sitting; to adjourn.
2. (intransitive) To increase in value or standing.
   1. To attain a higher status.
      • 1846, Julius Hare, The Mission of the Comforter

        among the rising theologians of Germany
   2. Of a quantity, price, etc., to increase.
   3. To become more and more dignified or forcible; to increase in interest or power; said of style, thought, or discourse.
   4. To ascend on a musical scale; to take a higher pitch.

3. To begin, to develop; to be initiated.
   1. To become active, effective or operational, especially in response to an external or internal stimulus.

      Thus far, my intellect has been able to rise sufficiently to meet every academic challenge that I have encountered.

      As Patrick continued to goad me, I felt my temper rising towards the limits of my self control.

   2. To develop.

      As hunger and despondency became more intense, a determination rose within me to find a way of getting off the desert island.

      • Professor Peter Crome, chair of the audit's steering group, said the report "provides further concrete evidence that the care of patients with dementia in hospital is in need of a radical shake-up". While a few hospitals had risen to the challenge of improving patients' experiences, many have not, he said. The report recommends that all staff receive basic dementia awareness training, and staffing levels should be maintained to help such patients.

   3. To swell or puff up in the process of fermentation; to become light.

   4. (of a river) To have its source (in a particular place).
      • 1802 December 1, “Interesting description of the Montanna Real”, in The Monthly magazine, or, British register, Number 94 (Number 5 of Volume 14), page 396:

        The majestic Marannon, or Amazon River, rises out of the Lake Launcocha, situated in the province of Tarma, in 10° 14? south latitude, and ten leagues to the north of Pasco.

   5. To become perceptible to the senses, other than sight.

   6. To become agitated, opposed, or hostile; to go to war; to take up arms; to rebel.
   7. To come to mind; to be suggested; to occur.
      • July 9, 1714, Joseph Addison, The Spectator No. 565

        A thought rose in me, which I believe very often perplexes […] men of contemplative natures.

4. (transitive) To go up; to ascend; to climb.

   to rise a hill

5. (transitive) To cause to go up or ascend.

   to rise a fish, or cause it to come to the surface of the water

   to rise a ship, or bring it above the horizon by approaching it

   • 1882, William Clark Russell, My Watch Below

     Until we rose the bark we could not pretend to call it a chase.

6. (obsolete) To retire; to give up a siege.

   • He, […] rising with small honour from Gunza, […] was gone.

7. To come; to offer itself.
8. (printing, dated) To be lifted, or capable of being lifted, from the imposing stone without dropping any of the type; said of a form.

Synonyms

• (move upwards): climb, go up
• (leave one's bed): arise, get up; see also Thesaurus:wake
• (be resurrected): be resurrected, come back from the dead
• (of a quantity, etc: to increase): climb, increase, go up

Antonyms

• (move upwards): descend, drop, fall, sink
• (of a celestial body): set
• (of a quantity, etc: to increase): be reduced, decrease, drop, fall, go down

Coordinate terms

• raise

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From the above verb.

Noun

rise (plural rises)

1. The process of or an action or instance of moving upwards or becoming greater.

   The rise of the tide.

   There was a rise of nearly two degrees since yesterday.

   Exercise is usually accompanied by a temporary rise in blood pressure.

2. The process of or an action or instance of coming to prominence.

   The rise of the working class.

   The rise of the printing press.

   The rise of the feminists.

3. (chiefly Britain) An increase (in a quantity, price, etc).
4. The amount of material extending from waist to crotch in a pair of trousers or shorts.

   The rise of his pants was so low that his tailbone was exposed.

5. (Britain, Ireland, Australia) An increase in someone's pay rate; a raise (US).

   The governor just gave me a rise of two pound six.

6. (Sussex) A small hill; used chiefly in place names.
7. An area of terrain that tends upward away from the viewer, such that it conceals the region behind it; a slope.
   • 1884, Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapter VII,

     I went along up the bank with one eye out for pap and t?other one out for what the rise might fetch along.

8. (informal) An angry reaction.

   I knew that would get a rise out of him.

9. (architecture) The height of an arch.

   As the rise, i. e. height, of the arch decreases the outward thrust increases.

Synonyms

• (increase in pay): raise

Antonyms

• fall

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 3

From Middle English ris, rys, from Old English hr?s, from Proto-Germanic *hr?s? (“twig; shoot”). More at rice.

Noun

rise (plural rises)

1. Alternative form of rice (“twig”)

Derived terms

• rise-wood

Related terms

• risel

References

Anagrams

• EIRs, Eris, Iser, SIer, Seri, eirs, ires, reis, sire

Italian

Verb

rise

1. third-person singular past historic of ridere

Anagrams

• ersi, IRES, resi, seri

Latin

Participle

r?se

1. vocative masculine singular of r?sus

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Old Norse risi. Cognate with German Riese (“giant”)

Noun

rise m (definite singular risen, indefinite plural riser, definite plural risene)

1. mountain troll.
2. jotun (jötunn).

Synonyms

• bergtroll
• jotun
• kjempe

Etymology 2

From the noun ris (“spanking, whipping”)

Verb

rise (present tense riser, past tense riste, past participle rist)

1. to spank

References

• “rise” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “rise” in The Ordnett Dictionary

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²ri?s?/

Etymology 1

From Old Norse risi

Noun

rise m (definite singular risen, indefinite plural risar, definite plural risane)

1. a giant, jotun

Etymology 2

Verb

rise (present tense ris, past tense reis, past participle rise, present participle risande, imperative ris)

1. Alternative form of risa

Etymology 3

Verb

rise (present tense risar, past tense risa, past participle risa, passive infinitive risast, present participle risande, imperative ris)

1. Alternative form of risa

References

• “rise” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Tarantino

Noun

rise

1. rice

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: w?ks, IPA^(key): /wæks/
• Rhymes: -æks
• Homophones: whacks (in accents with the wine-whine merger), wacks

Etymology 1

From Middle English wax, from Old English weax, from Proto-Germanic *wahs?, from Proto-Indo-European *wo?-so-. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Woaks (“wax”), West Frisian waaks (“wax”), Dutch was (“wax”), German Wachs (“wax”), Norwegian voks (“wax”); and with Lithuanian vaškas (“wax”), Proto-Slavic *vosk? (“wax”).

Noun

wax (countable and uncountable, plural waxes)

1. Beeswax.
2. Earwax.

   Synonym: (medical term) cerumen

3. Any oily, water-resistant, solid or semisolid substance; normally long-chain hydrocarbons, alcohols or esters.
4. Any preparation containing wax, used as a polish.

   Synonym: polish

5. (uncountable, music, informal) The phonograph record format for music.

   Synonyms: vinyl, record

   • 1943, Time

     What really started the corn sprouting on Broadway was a lugubrious tune by Louisiana's Jimmie Davis called It Makes No Difference Now. In the late '30s Decca's Recording Chief David Kapp heard this Texas hit and got it on wax.

6. (US, dialect) A thick syrup made by boiling down the sap of the sugar maple and then cooling it.
7. (US, slang) A type of drugs with as main ingredients weed oil and butane; hash oil

Derived terms

Translations

Adjective

wax (not comparable)

1. Made of wax.

Synonyms

• waxen

Derived terms

See under the noun section above

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English waxen, from the noun (see above).

Verb

wax (third-person singular simple present waxes, present participle waxing, simple past and past participle waxed)

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

   Synonyms: buff, shine, polish, furbish, burnish

2. (transitive) 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.
3. (transitive, informal) To defeat utterly.
4. (transitive, slang) To kill, especially to murder a person.

   Synonyms: bump off, knock off, whack; see also Thesaurus:kill

   • 2009, Dean R. Koontz and Ed Gorman, Dean Koontz's Frankenstein: City of Night, ?ISBN, page 106:

     "You telling me you know who really waxed him and your mom?" / "Yeah," she lied. / "Just who pulled the trigger or who ordered it to be pulled?"

5. (transitive, archaic, usually of a musical or oral performance) To record. [from 1900]

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 3

From Middle English waxen, from Old English weaxan (“to wax, grow, be fruitful, increase, become powerful, flourish”), from Proto-Germanic *wahsijan? (“to grow”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?weg- (“to grow, increase”). Cognate with Scots wax (“to grow”), West Frisian waakse (“to grow”), Low German wassen, Dutch wassen (“to grow”), German wachsen (“to grow”), Danish and Norwegian vokse (“to grow”), Swedish växa (“to grow”), Icelandic vaxa (“to grow”), Gothic ???????????????????????????? (wahsjan, “to grow”); and with Ancient Greek ?????? (aéxein), Latin auxilium. It is in its turn cognate with augeo. See eke.

Verb

wax (third-person singular simple present waxes, present participle waxing, simple past waxed or (archaic) wex, past participle waxed or (dialectal, archaic) waxen)

2. (intransitive, copulative, literary) To increasingly assume the specified characteristic.

   Synonym: become
3. (intransitive, literary) To grow.

   Antonym: wane
4. (intransitive, of the moon) To appear larger each night as a progression from a new moon to a full moon.
5. (intransitive, of the tide) To move from low tide to high tide.

Usage notes

• Older forms are: 2nd per. sing, waxest (archaic), 3rd per. sing. waxeth (archaic), and plural form waxen (obsolete).
• Alternative simple past form is wex (obsolete) and the alternative past participle is waxen (obsolete).

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Noun

wax (uncountable)

1. (rare) The process of growing.

Derived terms

• wax-kernel
• waxless

Translations

Etymology 4

Origin uncertain; probably from phrases like to wax angry, wax wode, and similar (see Etymology 2, above).

Noun

wax (plural waxes)

1. (dated, colloquial) An outburst of anger.
   • 1970, John Glassco, Memoirs of Montparnasse, New York 2007, page 161:

     ‘That's him to a T,’ she would murmur; or, ‘Just wait till he reads this’; or, ‘Ah, won't that put him in a wax!’

Derived terms

• waxy

See also

• waxen-kernel
• waxloke

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English weax, from Proto-Germanic *wahs?.

Alternative forms

• waxe, wex, wexe, waxs, wexs, vax, vex

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /waks/, /w?ks/

Noun

wax (plural waxes)

2. wax (beeswax, sealing wax, etc.)

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Chaucer to this entry?)

Related terms

• grene wax
• medewax
• waxen (“to wax”)

Descendants

• English: wax
• Scots: wax

References

• “wax, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 2

A back-formation from waxen (“to grow”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /waks/

Noun

wax (uncountable)

2. (rare) growth, increase

Descendants

• English: wax

References

• “wax, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 3

Verb

wax

1. Alternative form of waxen (“to grow”)

Etymology 4

Verb

wax

1. Alternative form of waxen (“to wax”)

Somali

Noun

wax ?

1. something