(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.
Waxy
Definition:
(a.) Resembling wax in appearance or consistency; viscid; adhesive; soft; hence, yielding; pliable; impressible.
Example Sentences:
(1) The aim of the trial was to determine the effectiveness of aspirin in preventing cardiovascular problems in people with asymptomatic atherosclerosis – the undetected build-up of waxy plaque deposits on the inside of blood vessels.
(2) He made his way to a spot on the cobblestones not far from the marble mausoleum housing the waxy corpse of Vladimir Lenin , and began to undress.
(3) The neuronal ceroid lipofuscinoses are clinical disorders associated with the accumulation of autofluorescent waxy pigments within cells of several different tissues.
(4) However, the cloned rice waxy gene contained base substitution mutations.
(5) The development of new heterowaxy or waxy sorghum hybrids may further increase sorghum feed efficiency.
(6) In the presence of both intact and disrupted amyloplasts an artificial preprotein (TP30), consisting of the waxy transit peptide plus the first 34 amino acids of the mature waxy protein fused in-frame to the beta-glucuronidase of Escherichia coli, is processed to the size expected when the transit peptide is cleaved off.
(7) The waxy exudates decreased in 11 patients (39.29%) and increased in 8 patients (28.57%).
(8) Based on these findings a hypothesis for the development of waxy degeneration is proposed: locally defects of the plasmamembrane cause segmental contracture, glycogen granules and water soluble enzymes are lost through holes in the plasma membrane, and finally the affected fibre segment becomes necrotic.
(9) Acid hydrolyzates of waxy-maize starch were separated to give Fractions I, II, and III [T. Watanabe, and D. French, Carbohydr.
(10) To study the effect of the degree of chain branching, waxy starch, containing 98% amylopectin, was compared with high amylose starch, containing 30% amylopectin, and normal crystalline starch, containing 74% amylopectin.
(11) Homology between the previously cloned maize waxy gene and the rice gene has facilitated our cloning of a 15-kb HindIII fragment that contains the entire rice gene.
(12) We report, however, the presence of maltose in waxy extracts, a disaccharide otherwise supposed to be absent in this genotype.
(13) In 3 cases additionally appeared: waxy pallor of optic disc, vascular narrowing, reflexless hypoplastic macula, pigmentless periphery, acquired blue-yellow blindness, concentric limitation of the visual field, reduced darkadaptation, abolished electroretinogram and myopic astigmatism.
(14) During oviposition, the inner cuticular layer unfolds and inflates into a pair of balloonlike structures that evert through the organ external aperture to receive and manipulate each egg as it is laid, coating it with a waxy layer that prevents desiccation.
(15) SDS-PAGE analysis of proteins bound to endosperm starch granules in the normal plants revealed a single band with a Mr of 60 kd, whereas waxy plants did not exhibit a similar band.
(16) The molecular basis for the unusual phenotype conditioned by the waxy(Wx)-m5 Ds allele has been elucidated.
(17) We demonstrate that these gene products are altered in rice strains containing mutant waxy genes.
(18) This tradition of what academics call "dark tourism" endures today: there is something morbid about peering at Amy Winehouse's skinny but healthily waxy arms.
(19) Eight patients developed a syndrome marked by features of catatonia (including posturing, waxy flexibility, withdrawal and regression) and parkinsonism (including bradykinesia and rigidity) while receiving high-potency neuroleptic drugs.
(20) Advanced cheiroarthropathy with shining waxy skin was diagnosed in 41 patients (group I).