wax
/wæks/ sustantivo B1En español: cera, esperma
- Any oily, water-resistant, solid or semisolid substance; normally long-chain hydrocarbons, alcohols or esters.
- Beeswax (a wax secreted by bees).
- Earwax (a wax secreted by the ears). · What role does the wax in your earhole fulfill?
- Any preparation containing wax, used as a polish.
- The phonograph record format for music.
- Any of a class of drugs with weed oil and butane as main ingredients; hash oil. · He was charged with two felonies, for possession of Xanax and wax.
Plural waxes
Phrasal verbs y expresiones
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It is a bust in wax.
It was a wax-coloured model of my friend, so admirably done that it was a perfect facsimile.
But she was as close as wax.
“Well, then, will you please compare that print with this wax impression of young McFarlane’s right thumb, taken by my orders this morning?”
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