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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

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Adjective

wax (not comparable)

1. Made of wax.

Synonyms

• waxen

Derived terms

See under the noun section above

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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]

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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).

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Noun

wax (uncountable)

1. (rare) The process of growing.

Derived terms

• wax-kernel
• waxless

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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

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /???k?t/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???k?t/
• Rhymes: -?k?t

Etymology 1

From Italian rocchetta, from Old Italian rochetto (“rocket”, literally “a bobbin”), diminutive of rocca (“a distaff”), from Lombardic rocko, rukka (“spinning wheel”), from Proto-Germanic *rukkô (“a distaff, a staff with flax fibres tied loosely to it, used in spinning thread”). Cognate with Old High German rocco, rocko, roccho, rocho ("a distaff"; > German Rocken (“a distaff”)), Swedish rock (“a distaff”), Icelandic rokkur (“a distaff”), Middle English rocke (“a distaff”). More at rock?.

Noun

rocket (plural rockets)

1. A rocket engine.
2. (military) A non-guided missile propelled by a rocket engine.
3. A vehicle propelled by a rocket engine.
4. A rocket propelled firework, a skyrocket
5. (slang) An ace (the playing card).
6. (military slang) An angry communication (such as a letter or telegram) to a subordinate.
   • 1980, David Schoenbrun, Soldiers of the Night: The Story of the French Resistance,^[1] Dutton, ?ISBN, page 203,

     While [Colonel Robert] Solborg and [Jacques] Lemaigre[-Dubreuil] were dreaming of revolts, [William Joseph “Wild Bill”] Donovan had learned of Solborg’s insubordination and meddling. He sent him a “rocket” ordering him out of North Africa and back to Lisbon at once. Solborg flew to Lisbon and then on to Washington to face out his problem with Donovan.

7. A blunt lance head used in jousting.
8. (figuratively) Something that shoots high in the air.
9. (Scotland, slang) A stupid or crazy person.
   • 2014, Alistair Beaton, Rob Drummond, Morna Pearson, Contemporary Scottish Plays

     Why were the Luddites named efter Ned Ludd? A wee rocket. A wee fucken fairy bampot. A pure hooligan, smashing stuff up. A ned. Ned Ludd.

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See also

• ICBM

References

• Watkins, Calvert (2000). The American Heritage Dictionary of Indo-European Roots 2nd edn., p. 72, s.v. ruk-. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, ?ISBN.
• Weisenberg, Michael (2000). The Official Dictionary of Poker. MGI/Mike Caro University. ?ISBN.
• “rocket” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.

Verb

rocket (third-person singular simple present rockets, present participle rocketing, simple past and past participle rocketed)

1. To accelerate swiftly and powerfully
2. To fly vertically
3. To rise or soar rapidly
4. To carry something in a rocket
5. To attack something with rockets

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Etymology 2

Borrowed from French roquette, from Italian ruchetta, diminutive of ruca, from Latin eruca. Cognate to arugula.

Noun

rocket (uncountable)

1. The leaf vegetable Eruca sativa or Eruca vesicaria.
2. rocket larkspur (Consolida regalis)

Synonyms

• (US) arugula
• rocket salad

Derived terms

• wild rocket, perennial wall rocket, sand rocket, white rocket (Diplotaxis tenuifolia)
• London rocket (Sisymbrium irio)
• dame's rocket, sweet rocket (Hesperis matronalis)
• blue rocket (Aconitum)
• dyer's rocket, bastard rocket (Reseda)
• yellowrocket, rocketcress, winter rocket, wound rocket (Barbarea vulgaris)

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