(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.
Example Sentences:
(1) The role of whole Mycobacteria, mycobacterial cell walls and waxes D as immunostimulants was well established many years ago.
(2) This study shows that the sensitivity and specificity of in situ hybridisation for the detection of EBV genomes in AIDS related lymphomas approaches that of Southern blotting, even when using routinely processed archival, paraffin wax embedded material.
(3) "The new feminine ideal is of egg-smooth perfection from hairline to toes," she writes, describing the exquisite agony of having her fingers, arms, back, buttocks and nostrils waxed.
(4) These were not observed in area 5, although here the distribution of callosal neurons waxed and waned in the tangential cortical plane.
(5) The equations of best fit of log(wax esters) vs age suggested that sebum secretion declines about 23% per decade in men and 32% per decade in women.
(6) Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare (MAI) can utilize paraffin wax as the sole carbon source in basal media.
(7) The separation of the defect margins from the reacting material by wax inhibited the bone regeneration.
(8) Wax D also induced small accumulations of macrophages.
(9) In all these cuticles the tubular filaments arise from the plasma membrane of the epidermal cells and they contain argentaffin material, regarded as sclerotin precursors, and lipid-staining material, regarded as wax precursors.
(10) The probe tip was a gold-plated pin, insulated from the saliva by soft wax.
(11) The new Poles are generally optimistic and open-minded, believing their destiny to be in their own hands, that Poland shouldn't be prisoner to its past and that the future waxes bright for their country.
(12) It is recommended to apply cast fillings with a replacement of the occlusive area as quickly after the wax mould as possible because of the diminished gap due to the motion of the teeth.
(13) Acrolein-fixed, polyester wax-embedded tissue sections showed excellent preservation of light microscopic architecture and, when stained with toluidine blue, intense color contrast between DNA, which stained orthochromatically, and RNA, which stained metachromatically.
(14) The use of the technique of wax-plate serial section-reconstruction, based on contiguous axial plane CT images of the upper thorax, to prepare a replica of the central air-way (trachea and major bronchi) of an infant with sling left pulmonary artery type 2B, with bridging bronchus, abortive right main bronchus, and tracheal stenosis due to absence of the tracheal pars membranacea with "ring" tracheal cartilages is described.
(15) When David Tennant was waxing eloquent in that legal drama The Escape Artist, no one yelled out from the jury that his watch looked bloody expensive.
(16) We describe a simple technique of inflation and wax impregnation for the permanent proof of congenital heart defects that can be used in routine perinatal necropsies.
(17) Nasopharyngeal biopsy specimens, formalin fixed and paraffin wax embedded, from 24 patients, eight with undifferentiated nasopharyngeal carcinoma, eight with well differentiated squamous carcinoma, and eight showing normal tissue histology, were analysed for the presence of Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) DNA by slot-blot hybridisation on extracted unamplified DNA, and also after amplification of EBV specific sequences by the polymerase chain reaction (PCR).
(18) The wax contains a wide range of organic compounds.
(19) "There are plenty of things she can wax lyrical about without getting into tricky areas: the upcoming first world war centenary, the need for a more global outlook in the economy, the inspiring achievements of British parliamentary democracy."
(20) Free sterols, sterol esters, triglycerides, phospholipids were major components of cercarial lipids, triglycerides, wax esters, free fatty acids, squalen were major components of skin surface lipids.
Waxwork
Definition:
(n.) Work made of wax; especially, a figure or figures formed or partly of wax, in imitation of real beings.
(n.) An American climbing shrub (Celastrus scandens). It bears a profusion of yellow berrylike pods, which open in the autumn, and display the scarlet coverings of the seeds.
Example Sentences:
(1) The ubiquity of Madame Tussauds, found everywhere from Bangkok to Berlin, may reflect the globalisation of Hollywood but each city gets the waxworks it deserves.
(2) "Audrey Hepburn was so beautiful in real life that her waxwork didn't do her justice, whereas Charles and Camilla were very good," reckons Moira Carrasco from Surrey, who is visiting with her daughter and granddaughter.
(3) It concerned the handover of Hong Kong, and in it he described the Chinese Communist leadership as "appalling old waxworks" and railed against Tony Blair and his coterie of advisers.
(4) Sterling was so starstruck when he first saw Steven Gerrard at Liverpool he remembers it being like looking at a waxwork model.
(5) Recreating the exact facial features of public figures of the day can be a task fraught with problems for the waxwork artists of Madame Tussauds.
(6) Matthew Parris called him a " living waxwork "; Suzanne Moore a " zombie gurning ... less popular than pig flu "; and Richard Littlejohn wrote, " If Gordon was a dog, he'd be put down. "
(7) At Madame Tussauds in London, a waxwork of George Bernard Shaw had just been unveiled.
(8) Tussaud inherited Curtius's models and her travelling exhibition of waxworks became the touring newspaper of the day, providing vivid impressions of contemporary events, particularly the revolution, in a time before photographs.
(9) In a memo about the handover ceremony, Prince Charles described the Communist party’s elderly leaders as a “group of appalling old waxworks” and mocked the “awful Soviet-style display” of goose-stepping Chinese soldiers at the event.
(10) He added: "After my speech the president detached himself from the group of appalling old waxworks who accompanied him and took his place at the lectern.
(11) I saw someone,” he said, “and it didn’t dawn on me for a few seconds that that person was a waxwork.
(12) Tussauds has always been 3D and its waxworks are now thoroughly, irreverently interactive.
(13) According to Edwards, every unwanted waxwork is archived in a warehouse in Acton, west London – a fabulously creepy place that is off limits to the media.
(14) They moved to Paris and she created figures for a waxwork exhibition, narrowly escaped the guillotine in the French Revolution, and ended up making death masks of guillotine victims.
(15) Prince Charles’s 1997 diaries on the handover of Hong Kong to the Chinese (title: “The Handover of Hong Kong or The Great Chinese Takeaway”) revealed that Prince Charles viewed officials as “appalling old waxworks” and labelled one Chinese handover ceremony an “awful Soviet-style” performance.
(16) On the day I have a child , these are the principles I will pass on.” 2015: Launches a new line of Cristiano Ronaldo underpants, buys a second waxwork of himself for his home, and unveils his new signature scent “Cristiano Ronaldo Legacy” at a PR event, backed by “an army of models in gold gowns”.
(17) The comings and goings of celebrity waxworks deliciously mirror the fickle wax and wane of fame.
(18) "Madame Tussaud believed she provided entertainment, artistic enlightenment, historical education and a place of pilgrimage," writes Pamela Pilbeam, author of Madame Tussaud and the History of Waxworks.
(19) Modern trends may be working in Madame Tussauds' favour: as celebrities turn ever more plasticky with their botox and botched surgery, so the waxworks look ever more real.
(20) Exciting but somewhat illogical whole-room pieces like rows of praying burqas made from silver foil, and the waxworks of world leaders in motorised wheelchairs in his basement.