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surge
English
Etymology
From Middle English surgen, possibly from Middle French sourgir, from Old French surgir (“to rise, ride near the shore, arrive, land”), from Old Catalan surgir, from Latin surg?, contr. of surrig?, subrig? (“lift up, raise, erect; intransitive rise, arise, get up, spring up, grow, etc.”, transitive verb), from sub (“from below; up”) + reg? (“to stretch”); see regent.
Pronunciation
- (US) enPR: sûrj IPA(key): /s?d?/
- (UK) IPA(key): /s??d?/
- Rhymes: -??(?)d?
- Homophone: serge
Noun
surge (plural surges)
- A sudden transient rush, flood or increase.
- The maximum amplitude of a vehicle's forward/backward oscillation
- (electricity) A sudden electrical spike or increase of voltage and current.
- (aviation) A momentary reversal of the airflow through the compressor section of a jet engine due to disruption of the airflow entering the engine's air intake, accompanied by loud banging noises, emission of flame, and temporary loss of thrust.
- (nautical) The swell or heave of the sea. (FM 55-501).
- 1901, Bible (American Standard Version), James i. 6
- He that doubteth is like the surge of the sea driven by the wind and tossed.
- He flies aloft, and, with impetuous roar, / Pursues the foaming surges to the shore.
- 1901, Bible (American Standard Version), James i. 6
- (obsolete) A spring; a fountain.
- 1523-1525, John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners, Froissart's Chronicles
- all great rivers are gorged and assembled of various surges and springs of water
- 1523-1525, John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners, Froissart's Chronicles
- The tapered part of a windlass barrel or a capstan, upon which the cable surges, or slips.
Synonyms
- inrush
Derived terms
- countersurge
- surgeless
Translations
Verb
surge (third-person singular simple present surges, present participle surging, simple past and past participle surged)
- (intransitive) To rush, flood, or increase suddenly.
- Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations.
- To accelerate forwards, particularly suddenly.
- (transitive, nautical) To slack off a line.
Related terms
- source
Translations
References
- surge in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- surge in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- FM 55-501
Anagrams
- Ruges, grues, urges
Italian
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -urd?e
Verb
surge
- third-person singular present indicative of surgere
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?sur.?e/, [?s??r??]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?sur.d??e/, [?surd???]
Verb
surge
- second-person singular present active imperative of surg?
- (Matt. IX. v.5)
Arise, and walk. (KJV)
Portuguese
Verb
surge
- third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of surgir
- second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of surgir
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?su?xe/, [?su?.xe]
Verb
surge
- Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of surgir.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of surgir.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present indicative form of surgir.
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wax
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)
- Beeswax.
- Earwax.
- Synonym: (medical term) cerumen
- Any oily, water-resistant, solid or semisolid substance; normally long-chain hydrocarbons, alcohols or esters.
- Any preparation containing wax, used as a polish.
- Synonym: polish
- (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.
- (US, dialect) A thick syrup made by boiling down the sap of the sugar maple and then cooling it.
- (US, slang) A type of drugs with as main ingredients weed oil and butane; hash oil
Derived terms
Translations
Adjective
wax (not comparable)
- 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)
- (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
- (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.
- (transitive, informal) To defeat utterly.
- (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?"
- (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)
- (intransitive, copulative, literary) To increasingly assume the specified characteristic.
- Synonym: become
- (intransitive, literary) To grow.
- Antonym: wane
- (intransitive, of the moon) To appear larger each night as a progression from a new moon to a full moon.
- (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)
- (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)
- (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!’
- 1970, John Glassco, Memoirs of Montparnasse, New York 2007, page 161:
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)
- 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)
- (rare) growth, increase
Descendants
- English: wax
References
- “wax, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Etymology 3
Verb
wax
- Alternative form of waxen (“to grow”)
Etymology 4
Verb
wax
- Alternative form of waxen (“to wax”)
Somali
Noun
wax ?
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