Usually means: Mineral used for cleaning, manufacturing.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. borax: Merriam-Webster
  2. borax: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. borax, borax: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. borax: Collins English Dictionary
  5. borax: Vocabulary.com
  6. Borax, borax: Wordnik
  7. borax: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. borax: Wiktionary
  9. borax: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. borax: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. borax: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. borax: Dictionary.com
  13. borax: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. BORAX, Borax (disambiguation), Borax: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Borax: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. borax: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. borax: Rhymezone
  18. Borax: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. borax: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. borax: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  21. borax: FreeDictionary.org
  22. borax: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. borax: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. borax: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Borax: Health & Beauty Glossary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. borax: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. borax: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. borax: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. BORAX: The Mineral Gallery

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. borax, borax: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. borax: Urban Dictionary

Tech (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Explosives (No longer online)
  2. Borax: Beauty & Health Glossary
  3. Illustrated Glass Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  5. Glossary for the Modern Soap Maker (No longer online)
  6. Borax: Pottery Studio

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A white or gray/grey crystalline salt, with a slight alkaline taste, used as a flux, in soldering metals, making enamels, fixing colors/colours on porcelain, and as a soap, etc.
noun:  (inorganic chemistry) The sodium salt of boric acid, Na₂B₄O₇, either anhydrous or with 5 or 10 molecules of water of crystallization; sodium tetraborate.
noun:  (sometimes attributive) Cheap or tawdry furniture or other works of industrial design.
verb:  (transitive) To treat with borax.

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