Wan vs. Wax

Pale, sickly-looking.

Dim, faint.

Bland, uninterested.

Example: ‘A wan expression’;

The quality of being wan; wanness.

(Ireland) A girl or woman.

(obsolete) win.

Won.

Having a pale or sickly hue; languid of look; pale; pallid.

Example: ‘My color . . . [is] wan and of a leaden hue.’; ‘Why so pale and wan, fond lover?’; ‘With the wan moon overhead.’;

The quality of being wan; wanness.

Example: ‘Tinged with wan from lack of sleep.’;

To grow wan; to become pale or sickly in looks.

Example: ‘And ever he mutter'd and madden'd, and ever wann'd with despair.’;

a computer network that spans a wider area than does a local area network

become pale and sickly

(of light) lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble;

Example: ‘the pale light of a half moon’; ‘a pale sun’; ‘the late afternoon light coming through the el tracks fell in pale oblongs on the street’; ‘a pallid sky’; ‘the pale (or wan) stars’; ‘the wan light of dawn’;

abnormally deficient in color as suggesting physical or emotional distress;

Example: ‘the pallid face of the invalid’; ‘her wan face suddenly flushed’;

lacking vitality as from weariness or illness or unhappiness;

Example: ‘a wan smile’;

Beeswax.

Earwax.

Example: ‘What role does the wax in your earhole fulfill?’;

Any oily, water-resistant substance; normally long-chain hydrocarbons, alcohols or esters.

Any preparation containing wax, used as a polish.

(uncountable) The phonograph record format for music.

A thick syrup made by boiling down the sap of the sugar maple and then cooling it.

A type of drugs with as main ingredients weed oil and butane; hash oil

(rare) The process of growing.

An outburst of anger.

Made of wax.

(transitive) To apply wax to (something, such as a shoe, a floor, a car, or an apple), usually to make it shiny.

(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.

To defeat utterly.

To kill, especially to murder a person.

To record.

(intransitive) To increase (phase of the Moon or other planet). Example The Moon is waxing.

To increasingly assume the specified characteristic, become.

Example: ‘to wax lyrical;’; ‘to wax eloquent;’; ‘to wax wode’;

To grow.

To appear larger each night as a progression from a new moon to a full moon.

To move from low tide to high tide.

To increase in size; to grow bigger; to become larger or fuller; - opposed to wane.

Example: ‘The waxing and the waning of the moon.’; ‘Truth's treasures . . . never shall wax ne wane.’;

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.

Example: ‘Your clothes are not waxen old upon you.’; ‘Where young Adonis oft reposes,Waxing well of his deep wound.’;

To smear or rub with wax; to treat with wax; as, to wax a thread or a table.

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.

Hence, any substance resembling beeswax in consistency or appearance.

Cerumen, or earwax.

A waxlike composition used for uniting surfaces, for excluding air, and for other purposes; as, sealing wax, grafting wax, etching wax, etc.

A waxlike composition used by shoemakers for rubbing their thread.

A substance similar to beeswax, secreted by several species of scale insects, as the Chinese wax. See Wax insect, below.

A waxlike product secreted by certain plants. See Vegetable wax, under Vegetable.

A substance, somewhat resembling wax, found in connection with certain deposits of rock salt and coal; - called also mineral wax, and ozocerite.

Thick sirup made by boiling down the sap of the sugar maple, and then cooling.

any of numerous substances or mixtures composed predominantly of the longer-chain saturated hydrocarbons such as the paraffins, which are solid at room teperature, or their alcohol, carboxylic acid, or ester derivatives.

any of various substances of either mineral origin or plant or animal origin; they are solid at normal temperatures and insoluble in water

cover with wax;

Example: ‘wax the car’;

go up or advance;

Example: ‘Sales were climbing after prices were lowered’;

increase in phase;

Example: ‘the moon is waxing’;

a sticky yellowish mouldable substance secreted by honeybees as the material of a honeycomb; beeswax.

a white translucent material obtained by bleaching and purifying beeswax and used for such purposes as making candles, modelling, and as a basis of polishes.

any waxy substance, especially a lipid or hydrocarbon.

earwax.

used in reference to records

Example: ‘he didn't get on wax until 1959’;

a fit of anger

Example: ‘she is in a wax about the delay to the wedding’;

cover or treat (something) with wax or a similar substance, typically to polish or protect it

Example: ‘I washed and waxed the floor’;

remove unwanted hair from (a part of the body) by applying wax and then peeling off the wax and hairs together

Example: ‘she waxed her legs when necessary’;

make a recording of

Example: ‘he waxed a series of tracks that emphasized his lead guitar work’;

(of the moon between new and full) have a progressively larger part of its visible surface illuminated, increasing its apparent size.

become larger or stronger

Example: ‘his anger waxed’;

begin to speak or write about something in the specified manner

Example: ‘they waxed lyrical about the old days’;

Waxes are a diverse class of organic compounds that are lipophilic, malleable solids near ambient temperatures. They include higher alkanes and lipids, typically with melting points above about 40 °C (104 °F), melting to give low viscosity liquids.