Rise vs Wax - What's the difference?
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(label) To move, or appear to move, physically upwards relative to the ground.
# To move upwards.
# To grow upward; to attain a certain height.
# To slope upward.
# (of a celestial body) To appear to move upwards from behind the horizon of a planet as a result of the planet's rotation.
#* 1898 , , (Moonfleet) , ,
# To become erect; to assume an upright position.
# To leave one's bed; to get up.
#* Old proverb
# (figurative) To be resurrected.
# (figurative) To terminate an official sitting; to adjourn.
#* (1800-1859)
(label) To increase in value or standing.
# To attain a higher status.
#* (rfdate) (Augustus Hare) (1834-1903)
#* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
# Of a quantity, price, etc., to increase.
#* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-06, volume=408, issue=8843, page=68, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= # To become more and more dignified or forcible; to increase in interest or power; said of style, thought, or discourse.
#*
, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8
, passage=The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again;
# To ascend on a musical scale; to take a higher pitch.
To begin; to develop.
# To develop.
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# To swell or puff up in the process of fermentation; to become light.
# (of a river) To have its source (in a particular place).
#* 1802 December 1, “Interesting description of the Montanna Real”, in The Monthly magazine, or, British register , Number 94 (Number 5 of Volume 14),
# To become perceptible to the senses, other than sight.
# To become agitated, opposed, or hostile; to go to war; to take up arms; to rebel.
#* (John Milton) (1608-1674)
#* (Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
# To come to mind; to be suggested; to occur.
#* Spectator
(obsolete) To retire; to give up a siege.
* (Richard Knolles) (1545-1610)
To come; to offer itself.
* (Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
(printing, dated) To be lifted, or capable of being lifted, from the imposing stone without dropping any of the type; said of a form.
The process of or an action or instance of moving upwards or becoming greater.
The process of or an action or instance of coming to prominence.
(chiefly, UK) An increase (in a quantity, price, etc).
The amount of material extending from waist to crotch in a pair of trousers or shorts.
(UK, Ireland, Australia) An increase in someone's pay rate; a raise.
(Sussex) A small hill; used chiefly in place names .
An area of terrain that tends upward away from the viewer, such that it conceals the region behind it; a slope.
* 1884 , (Mark Twain), (The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn) , ,
An angry reaction.
Beeswax.
Earwax.
Any oily, water-resistant substance; normally long-chain hydrocarbons, alcohols or esters.
Any preparation containing wax, used as a polish.
A phonograph record.
(US, dialect) A thick syrup made by boiling down the sap of the sugar maple and then cooling it.
(US, slang) A type of drugs with as main ingredients weed oil and butane; hash oil
Made of wax.
* , chapter=10
, title= To apply wax to (something, such as a shoe, a floor, a car, or an apple), usually to make it shiny.
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.
(informal) To defeat utterly.
(slang) To kill, especially to murder a person.
*
* 2009 , and (w), Dean Koontz's Frankenstein: City of Night , ISBN 9780553593334,
(transitive, archaic, usually, of a musical or oral performance) To record.
To increasingly assume the specified characteristic, become.
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To grow.
* 1602 , (William Shakespeare), , act 1, sc. 3, lines 11-14,
*{{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Michael Arlen), title=
, passage=And so it had always pleased M. Stutz to expect great things from the dark young man whom he had first seen in his early twenties?; and his expectations had waxed rather than waned on hearing the faint bruit of the love of Ivor and Virginia—for Virginia, M. Stutz thought, would bring fineness to a point in a man like Ivor Marlay, […].}}
To appear larger each night as a progression from a new moon to a full moon.
(rare) The process of growing.
(dated, colloquial) An outburst of anger.
* 1970 , John Glassco, Memoirs of Montparnasse , New York 2007, page 161:
Rise is a related term of wax.
As verbs the difference between rise and wax
is that rise is (label) to move, or appear to move, physically upwards relative to the ground while wax is to apply wax to (something, such as a shoe, a floor, a car, or an apple), usually to make it shiny or wax can be to increasingly assume the specified characteristic, become.As nouns the difference between rise and wax
is that rise is the process of or an action or instance of moving upwards or becoming greater while wax is beeswax or wax can be (rare) the process of growing or wax can be (dated|colloquial) an outburst of anger.As an adjective wax is
made of wax.rise
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) risen, from (etyl) . See also (l). (cognates) Cognate with (etyl) rize, (etyl) .Verb
- And still the hours passed, and at last I knew by the glimmer of light in the tomb above that the sun had risen again, and a maddening thirst had hold of me. And then I thought of all the barrels piled up in the vault and of the liquor that they held; and stuck not because 'twas spirit, for I would scarce have paused to sate that thirst even with molten lead.
- He that would thrive must rise by five.
- It was near ninebefore the House rose .
- among the rising theologians of Germany
- Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.
The rise of smart beta, passage=Investors face a quandary. Cash offers a return of virtually zero in many developed countries; government-bond yields may have risen in recent weeks but they are still unattractive. Equities have suffered two big bear markets since 2000 and are wobbling again. It is hardly surprising that pension funds, insurers and endowments are searching for new sources of return.}}
- Professor Peter Crome, chair of the audit's steering group, said the report "provides further concrete evidence that the care of patients with dementia in hospital is in need of a radical shake-up". While a few hospitals had risen to the challenge of improving patients' experiences, many have not, he said. The report recommends that all staff receive basic dementia awareness training, and staffing levels should be maintained to help such patients.
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- The majestic Marannon, or Amazon River, rises out of the Lake Launcocha, situated in the province of Tarma, in 10° 14? south latitude, and ten leagues to the north of Pasco.
- At our heels all hell should rise / With blackest insurrection.
- No more shall nation against nation rise .
- A thought rose in me, which often perplexes men of contemplative natures.
- He, rising with small honour from Gunza,was gone.
- There chanced to the prince's hand to rise / An ancient book.
Synonyms
* (move upwards) climb, go up * (be resurrected) be resurrected, come back from the dead * climb, increase, go upAntonyms
* (move upwards) descend, drop, fall, sink * (of a celestial body) set * be reduced, decrease, drop, fall, go downCoordinate terms
* raiseEtymology 2
From the above verb.Noun
(en noun)- The rise of the tide.
- There was a rise of nearly two degrees since yesterday.
- Exercise is usually accompanied by a temporary rise in blood pressure.
- The rise of the working class.
- The rise of the printing press.
- The rise of the feminists.
- The rise of his pants was so low that his tailbone was exposed.
- The governor just gave me a rise of 2-pounds-6.
- I went along up the bank with one eye out for pap and t?other one out for what the rise might fetch along.
- I knew that would get a rise out of him.
Synonyms
* (increase in pay) raiseAntonyms
* fallDerived terms
* earthrise * get a rise out of * moonrise * on the rise * pay rise * sunrise * take the riseStatistics
*wax
English
, a kind of waxEtymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
Synonyms
* (beeswax) beeswax * (earwax) cerumen (medical term), earwax * (polish) polish * (phonograph record) disc/disk, recordDerived terms
* ader wax * all wax and no wick * animal wax * anwax * baseplate wax * bayberry wax * beeswax * berry wax * bikini wax * bleached wax * blockout wax * bone wax * Born method of wax plate reconstruction * boxing wax * Brazil wax * Brazilian wax * butter of wax * California wax myrtle * candela wax * candelilla wax * candle wax * Carbowax * carding wax * carnauba wax * carving wax * car wax * casting wax * castor wax * ceresin wax * cetyl esters wax * chafe-wax, chafewax, chaff-wax, chaffwax * Chinese wax * close as wax * cobbler's wax, cobblers' wax * crystalline wax * cuticle wax * dental wax * dental inlay casting wax * dewax * earth wax, earthwax * ear wax, ear-wax, earwax * emulsifying wax * epilating wax * esparto wax * fig wax * Finnish yellow wax * fit like wax * floor wax * fossil wax * French wax * full up to dolly's wax * Geraldton wax * ghedda wax * glide wax * glitterwax * gondang wax * grafting wax * grave wax, grave-wax * greater wax moth * green wax, greenwax * grip wax * hair wax * hard wax * hot wax * hot-wax flooding * hot Hungarian wax pepper * Hungarian wax pepper * inlay casting wax * inlay casting wax, inlay pattern wax, inlay wax * insect wax * Japanese wax * Japan wax * keratin wax * kick wax * klister wax * lac wax * lad of wax, lad o' wax * lesser wax moth * lost wax * man of wax * medewax, medwax * microcrystalline wax * mind your beeswax, mind your own beeswax * mineral wax * modeling wax, modelling wax * montan wax * mortuary wax * moustache wax * myrtle wax * neat as wax * none of your beeswax * nose of wax * ouricury wax * Pacific wax myrtle * palm wax * paraffin wax, paraffin-wax * Parowax * peat wax * penetrating stain wax * petroleum wax * pisang wax * plant wax * polen wax * put on wax * release wax * rice bran wax * rough wax * scale wax * sealing-wax, sealing wax * seal-wax, sealwax * set-up wax * shellac wax * shoemakers' wax * ski wax * slack wax * soybean wax, soy wax * spermaceti wax * stick to someone like wax * surfboard wax * surf wax * * thermal wax printer * tight as wax * try-in wax * tubercle bacillus wax * unwax * utility wax * vegetable wax * virgin wax * walling wax * wax acid * wax alcohol * wax apple * wax bath * wax bean, waxbean * wax begonia * wax-berry, waxberry * wax-bill, waxbill * wax-billed * waxbird * wax bite * wax blockage * wax boot * wax-bred * wax-bush * wax-butter * wax candle * wax cap * wax-chandler * wax-chandlery, wax-chandry * wax cloth, wax-cloth, waxcloth * wax-cluster * wax-color, wax-colour * wax-comb * wax crayon * wax-creeper * wax-cup * wax cylinder * wax dip * wax doll * wax emulsion * waxen * wax end, wax-end * wax engraving * wax expansion * waxey * wax-eye * wax-farthing * wax figure * wax flower, wax-flower, waxflower * wax form * wax-gland * wax gourd * wax-hair * waxhead * wax-house * waxie * wax injection * wax injector * wax insect, wax-insect * wax jack * wax jambu * wax lancing * wax lathe * waxleaf privet * wax-leather * waxless skis * wax light, wax-light * wax-like, waxlike * wax-maker * wax-making * wax mallow, waxmallow * wax-man * wax model denture * wax-mold, wax-mould * wax moth, wax-moth * wax motor * wax museum * wax myrtle, wax-myrtle * wax-nose * wax-opal * wax painting, wax-painting * wax palm, wax-palm * wax paper, wax-paper * wax pattern * wax pear * wax pigment * wax-pine * wax-pink * wax plant, wax-plant, waxplant * wax play * wax pocket, wax-pocket * wax-pod bean * wax print * wax-proofed * wax-red * wax resist, wax-resist * wax ring * wax rose * wax-scot * wax shoe * wax-shot * wax-silver * wax size * wax stick * wax tablet * wax taper * wax test * wax-tipped bougie * wax tree, wax-tree * wax-type thermostat * wax vine * (Waxweb) * wax-weed * waxwing * wax wood * waxwork * wax-worker * wax-worm, waxworm * waxy * wax yellow * white wax * white wax tree * the whole ball of wax * wool wax * yellow wax * yellow wax pepperAdjective
(-)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=He looked round the poor room, at the distempered walls, and the bad engravings in meretricious frames, the crinkly paper and wax flowers on the chiffonier; and he thought of a room like Father Bryan's, with panelling, with cut glass, with tulips in silver pots, such a room as he had hoped to have for his own.}}
Synonyms
* waxenDerived terms
SeeVerb
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- "You telling me you know who really waxed him and your mom?" / "Yeah," she lied. / "Just who pulled the trigger or who ordered it to be pulled?"
Synonyms
* (apply wax to) polish * (to make smooth and shiny by rubbing) buff, shine, polish, furbish, burnish * bump off, knock off, whackDerived terms
* waxed * waxen * waxer * waxing * wax upEtymology 2
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) , (etyl) (m). It is in its turn cognate with (m). See .Verb
- For nature, crescent, does not grow alone / In thews and bulks, but, as this temple waxes , / The inward service of the mind and soul / Grows wide withal.
“Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days, chapter=Ep./1/1
Usage notes
* Older forms are: 2nd per. sing, waxest (label), 3rd per. sing. waxeth (label), and plural form wexen (label). * Alternative simple past form is wex (label) and the alternative past participle is waxen (label).Synonyms
* (to assume specified characteristic) becomeAntonyms
* (grow) wane * (of the moon) waneDerived terms
* outwax * over-wax, overwax * thorough-wax, thoroughwax, thorow-wax * through-waxen * unwax * wax and wane * wax forth * wax in age * wax in eld * wax lyrical * wax poetic * wax to man's estate * wax wodeNoun
(-)Derived terms
* wax-kernel * waxlessEtymology 3
probably from phrases like (term), (wax wode), and similar (see Etymology 2, above).Noun
(es)- ‘That's him to a T,’ she would murmur; or, ‘Just wait till he reads this’; or, ‘Ah, won't that put him in a wax !’
