Wax
noun
A sticky substance that comes from bees, used to make candles and other things.
She is making candles out of beeswax.
Often appears as...
- beeswax
- candle wax
verb
To grow larger or to increase.
The moon is waxing
Often appears as...
- wax and wane
- wax stronger
Usage tips
Poetic
verb
To put wax on something, usually to make it shiny or waterproof.
He waxed his car to make it shine.
Often appears as...
- wax the floor
- wax the car
noun
A cosmetic treatment which removes hair from the body.
She went to the salon to get a wax.
Often appears as...
- body wax
- wax strip
noun
The soft material used to make records.
The musicians recorded their album on wax.
Often appears as...
- hot wax
- wax recording
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Colloquial
noun
A sticky substance that comes from bees, used to make candles and other things.
She is making candles out of beeswax.
Often appears as...
- beeswax
- candle wax
verb
To grow larger or to increase.
The moon is waxing
Often appears as...
- wax and wane
- wax stronger
Usage tips
Poetic
verb
To put wax on something, usually to make it shiny or waterproof.
He waxed his car to make it shine.
Often appears as...
- wax the floor
- wax the car
noun
A cosmetic treatment which removes hair from the body.
She went to the salon to get a wax.
Often appears as...
- body wax
- wax strip
noun
The soft material used to make records.
The musicians recorded their album on wax.
Often appears as...
- hot wax
- wax recording
Usage tips
Colloquial
Definition 1 of 5
Pro Tip 1/2Bees' Product
Wax from bees is natural and often associated with crafting and organic products.
She prefers using natural beeswax for her lip balms.
Pro Tip 2/2Not Always Bees
Remember, wax can come from other sources like plants or be synthetic.
The wax in these candles is made from soybeans.
Pro Tip 1/2Bees' Product
Wax from bees is natural and often associated with crafting and organic products.
She prefers using natural beeswax for her lip balms.
Pro Tip 2/2Not Always Bees
Remember, wax can come from other sources like plants or be synthetic.
The wax in these candles is made from soybeans.
Pro Tip 1/2Bees' Product
Wax from bees is natural and often associated with crafting and organic products.
She prefers using natural beeswax for her lip balms.
Pro Tip 2/2Not Always Bees
Remember, wax can come from other sources like plants or be synthetic.
The wax in these candles is made from soybeans.
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The secret to desire in...
Erotic couples also understand that passion waxes and wanes. It's pretty much like the moon. It has intermittent eclipses. But what they know is they know how to resurrect it. They know how to bring it back. And they know how to bring it back because they have demystified one big myth,
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Adam Savage: My...
He took my master Falcon pattern, he actually did lost wax casting in bronze for me, and this is the bronze I got back. And this is, after some acid etching, the one that I ended up with. And this thing, it's deeply, deeply satisfying to me. Here, I'm going to put it out there,
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Why do honeybees love...
One suggested triangles, "We can use triangles. Look! They fit together perfectly." Another bee suggested squares. Finally, a third bee piped up and said, "Pentagons don't seem to work, but hexagons do! We want the one that will use the least amount of wax
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Lifesaving tech powered...
allow for even easier access to the baby so mothers could breastfeed and provide skin-to-skin care we created a wax pouch that would last for eight hours rather than four hours and mothers could sleep through the night we put a temperature
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Forget Everything You...
so the bryophytes on land evolved to produce this protective layer called particular which consists of fat wax and a protein called kitty the most complex group of bryophytes are the mostest and they have solved one of the hardest
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Sir Martin Rees: Earth...
The only abrupt worldwide change would have been major asteroid impacts or volcanic super-eruptions. Apart from those brief traumas, nothing happens suddenly. The continental landmasses drifted around. Ice cover waxed and waned.
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Thoughts on humanity,...
And I realized that I'm beginning to look more and more like the wax statue of me at Madame Tussaud's. Yeah, and in that moment of realization, I asked the most central and pertinent question to humanity and
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Why do we have museums?...
A spectacular hodgepodge of zoo, lecture hall, wax museum, theater, and freak show that was known for its eclectic residents, such as bears, elephants, acrobats, giants, Siamese twins, a Fiji mermaid,
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Secret Life of Head Lice...
and what can I do for you today so waxed mullets price edible tastes as usual mmm oh oh Nitz what I'm afraid sir you have headlights on I'm not gonna be able to deal with you today you're joking how
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Can you solve the...
Now you need to turn them into working beehives by helping the bees fill every hex with wax. There are two ways to fill a given hex. The first is to place a bee into it.
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The secret to desire in...
Erotic couples also understand that passion waxes and wanes. It's pretty much like the moon. It has intermittent eclipses. But what they know is they know how to resurrect it. They know how to bring it back. And they know how to bring it back because they have demystified one big myth,
Video examples
Adam Savage: My...
He took my master Falcon pattern, he actually did lost wax casting in bronze for me, and this is the bronze I got back. And this is, after some acid etching, the one that I ended up with. And this thing, it's deeply, deeply satisfying to me. Here, I'm going to put it out there,
Video examples
Why do honeybees love...
One suggested triangles, "We can use triangles. Look! They fit together perfectly." Another bee suggested squares. Finally, a third bee piped up and said, "Pentagons don't seem to work, but hexagons do! We want the one that will use the least amount of wax
Video examples
Lifesaving tech powered...
allow for even easier access to the baby so mothers could breastfeed and provide skin-to-skin care we created a wax pouch that would last for eight hours rather than four hours and mothers could sleep through the night we put a temperature
Video examples
Forget Everything You...
so the bryophytes on land evolved to produce this protective layer called particular which consists of fat wax and a protein called kitty the most complex group of bryophytes are the mostest and they have solved one of the hardest
Video examples
Sir Martin Rees: Earth...
The only abrupt worldwide change would have been major asteroid impacts or volcanic super-eruptions. Apart from those brief traumas, nothing happens suddenly. The continental landmasses drifted around. Ice cover waxed and waned.
Video examples
Thoughts on humanity,...
And I realized that I'm beginning to look more and more like the wax statue of me at Madame Tussaud's. Yeah, and in that moment of realization, I asked the most central and pertinent question to humanity and
Video examples
Why do we have museums?...
A spectacular hodgepodge of zoo, lecture hall, wax museum, theater, and freak show that was known for its eclectic residents, such as bears, elephants, acrobats, giants, Siamese twins, a Fiji mermaid,
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Secret Life of Head Lice...
and what can I do for you today so waxed mullets price edible tastes as usual mmm oh oh Nitz what I'm afraid sir you have headlights on I'm not gonna be able to deal with you today you're joking how
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Can you solve the...
Now you need to turn them into working beehives by helping the bees fill every hex with wax. There are two ways to fill a given hex. The first is to place a bee into it.
Example 1 of 10
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Andreja Pejic
Australian Model
You can wax on so much about your figure and your skin and your face and all of those really important, and I'm all about skin and keeping it healthy, but if you don't have confidence, none of it matters.
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Elizabeth Banks
American Actress
I'm not a fan of plastic surgery. Oh, and I've never had a wax in my life. Waxing makes no sense to me because you have to grow it out to wax it.
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Andy Serkis
English Actor
I had a body wax. It's the most painful thing I have ever done in my life. I had every single hair on my body pulled out, and I really bruised.
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Matthew Rhys
Welsh Actor
As for waxing, I've never waxed in my life and I never would. I'm extremely Welsh, so I draw the line at removing body hair.
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Aristotle
Greek Philosopher
We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.
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Sandeep Singh
Indian Athlete
I think I am the first hockey player in India to have a wax statue of his own. It is a great honour.
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Anita Bryant
American Singer
As the world is waxing worse, people are turning back to the basics of God.
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Ogden Nash
American Poet
Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.
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Helen Baxendale
English Actress
I've never had my feet done and never had my legs waxed.
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Arthur Schopenhauer
German Philosopher
Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
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Andreja Pejic
Australian Model
You can wax on so much about your figure and your skin and your face and all of those really important, and I'm all about skin and keeping it healthy, but if you don't have confidence, none of it matters.
Quote examples
Elizabeth Banks
American Actress
I'm not a fan of plastic surgery. Oh, and I've never had a wax in my life. Waxing makes no sense to me because you have to grow it out to wax it.
Quote examples
Andy Serkis
English Actor
I had a body wax. It's the most painful thing I have ever done in my life. I had every single hair on my body pulled out, and I really bruised.
Quote examples
Matthew Rhys
Welsh Actor
As for waxing, I've never waxed in my life and I never would. I'm extremely Welsh, so I draw the line at removing body hair.
Quote examples
Aristotle
Greek Philosopher
We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.
Quote examples
Sandeep Singh
Indian Athlete
I think I am the first hockey player in India to have a wax statue of his own. It is a great honour.
Quote examples
Anita Bryant
American Singer
As the world is waxing worse, people are turning back to the basics of God.
Quote examples
Ogden Nash
American Poet
Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.
Quote examples
Helen Baxendale
English Actress
I've never had my feet done and never had my legs waxed.
Quote examples
Arthur Schopenhauer
German Philosopher
Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
Example 1 of 10
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