Usually means: Substance for coating, polishing, sealing.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. wax: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. wax, wax, wax, wax: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. wax, wax: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. wax: Collins English Dictionary
  5. wax: Vocabulary.com
  6. Wax, wax: Wordnik
  7. wax: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Wax, wax: Wiktionary
  9. wax: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. wax: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. wax: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. wax: Dictionary.com
  13. wax (n.), wax (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. wax: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. WAX, Wax (Indochine album), Wax (KT Tunstall album), Wax (UK band), Wax (band), Wax (disambiguation), Wax (pop band), Wax (rapper), Wax (rock band), Wax (singer), Wax: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Wax: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. wax: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. wax: Rhymezone
  19. wax: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. wax: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. wax: Free Dictionary
  22. wax: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. wax: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. wax: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. wax: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Wax: Marquetry Glossary
  4. Natural Magick (No longer online)

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. Wax: A DICTIONARY OF LAW (1893)
  3. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Wax: Energy Dictionary
  5. wax: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. wax: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Orthodontic Terms (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. wax: Medical dictionary
  5. University of Maryland Glossary of Medical Terms (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
  2. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. WAX: Acronym Finder
  4. WAX: Three Letter Words with definitions
  5. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  6. wax: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Wax: Easton Bible

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Wax: Eric Weisstein's World of Chemistry
  2. General Chemistry Online (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. wax, wax, wax, wax, wax, wax, wax: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Totally Unofficial Rap (No longer online)

Sports (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  2. 2060 Shadow-Slang (No longer online)
  3. Wax: Sports Definitions

Tech (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Composite Terms (No longer online)
  4. K & A glossary (No longer online)
  5. WAX: Industry Terms for Fiberglass
  6. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

(Note: See waxed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  Beeswax.
noun:  Earwax.
noun:  Any oily, water-resistant, solid or semisolid substance; normally long-chain hydrocarbons, alcohols or esters.
noun:  Any preparation containing wax, used as a polish.
noun:  (uncountable, music, informal) The phonograph record format for music.
noun:  (US, dialect) A thick syrup made by boiling down the sap of the sugar maple and then cooling it.
noun:  (US, slang) A type of drugs with as main ingredients weed oil and butane; hash oil.
adjective:  Made of wax.
verb:  (transitive) To apply wax to (something, such as a shoe, a floor, a car, or an apple), usually to make it shiny.
verb:  (transitive) To remove hair at the roots from (a part of the body) by coating the skin with a film of wax that is then pulled away sharply.
verb:  (transitive, informal) To defeat utterly.
verb:  (transitive, slang) To kill, especially to murder a person.
verb:  (transitive, archaic, usually of a musical or oral performance) To record.
verb:  (intransitive, literary) To greaten.
verb:  (intransitive, copulative, literary) To increasingly assume the specified characteristic.
verb:  (intransitive, of the moon) To appear larger each night as a progression from a new moon to a full moon.
verb:  (intransitive, of the tide) To move from low tide to high tide.
noun:  (rare) The process of growing.
noun:  (dated, colloquial) An outburst of anger, a loss of temper, a fit of rage.
noun:  A surname.

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