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WAX

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wax¹ I. substantiv

1. ceară;

mineral wax ceară minerală.

2. cerumen, ceară din urechi.

wax¹ II. adjectiv

de ceară.

wax¹ III. verb tranzitiv

a cerui.

wax² verb intranzitiv

1. a creşte, a se mări.

2. (despre lună) a creşte.

3. a deveni, a se face;

to wax fat a se îngrăşa;

to wax angry a se supăra.

wax³ substantiv

(sl.) acces de mânie; furie;

to be in a wax a fi apucat de furii;

to get into a wax a turba, a se dezlănţui, a se apelpisi.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

But she was as close as wax.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Always with her, here comes Peggotty, my good old nurse, likewise in spectacles, accustomed to do needle-work at night very close to the lamp, but never sitting down to it without a bit of wax candle, a yard-measure in a little house, and a work-box with a picture of St. Paul's upon the lid.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

The marble basin was removed; in its place, stood a deal table and a kitchen chair: these objects were visible by a very dim light proceeding from a horn lantern, the wax candles being all extinguished.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

Then he took from his bag the lantern, which he lit, and also two wax candles, which, when lighted, he stuck, by melting their own ends, on other coffins, so that they might give light sufficient to work by.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

A study at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution shows that the microbial communities inside whales may play an important role in the digestion of one of the ocean's most abundant carbon-rich lipids: wax esters.

(Whales may owe their efficient digestion to millions of tiny microbes, National Science Foundation)

When those packets were sealed up, Jonas Oldacre got McFarlane to secure one of the seals by putting his thumb upon the soft wax.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

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