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Waxing vs Waking - What's the difference?

waxing | waking |

As verbs the difference between waxing and waking

is that waxing is while waking is .

As nouns the difference between waxing and waking

is that waxing is the action of the verb to wax while waking is the act of becoming awake from sleep, or a period of time spent awake.

As an adjective waking is

occurring during wakefulness.

waxing

English

(wikipedia waxing)

Verb

(head)

    • Antonyms

    * waning

    Derived terms

    * waxing kernel

    Noun

  • The action of the verb to wax.
  • *1983 , Youlan Feng, ?Derk Bodde, A History of Chinese Philosophy , Vol. 2, p. 427:
    • The wanings and waxings (of the sun and moon) occur according to the (twelve) pitch-pipes.
  • *2006 , Mary Lou Lyon, Early Cupertino , p. 81:
    • The building interior was Gothic and finished by multiple waxings of the commercial coast woods, redwood, sugar pine, white pine, and Douglas fir.
  • *2009 , Fritz Allhoff, Wine and Philosophy: A Symposium on Thinking and Drinking , p. 128:
  • *:Are these metaphorical descriptions just the subjective waxings of the critic or are they aesthetic properties really (but metaphorically) true of the wine?
  • (countable) A cosmetic procedure in which hair is removed from the body by the application and removal of wax.
  • (countable) A recording intended for a phonograph.

    • Synonyms

    * (recording) vinyl, record, platter

    Derived terms

    * bikini waxing * Brazilian waxing * hot waxing * Persian waxing * waxing die * waxing iron * waxing up

    waking

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Occurring during wakefulness.
  • * 1855 March, Caroline Chesebro’, “Kit”, in Graham’s Magazine , Volume 46, Number 3, page 230:
    • The city had as yet hardly drawn its first waking breath.
  • * “Alice” (possible pseudonym), quoted in Fred Penzel, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders: A Complete Guide to Getting Well and Staying Well , Oxford University Press (2000), ISBN 978-0-19-514092-7, page page 263:
    • Counting occupied my every waking thought.
  • * 2003 , Moshe Gelbein (translator), Chaim Friedlander (author), quoted in Moshe Gelbein (translator), Meir Munk (author), Searching for Comfort: Coping with Grief , Mesorah Publications, ISBN 978-1-57819-718-7, page 80:
    • It is this gift of life that we are grateful to receive each waking moment, and so we give thanks, “for our lives, which are committed to Your power.”

    Usage notes

    * This adjective most often occurs in phrases such as “every waking moment”, “every waking hour”, “every waking breath”, and so on, the sense being roughly “at all times”. Such phrases are often used together with possessives, such as in “her every waking moment” or “my every waking thought”.

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of becoming awake from sleep, or a period of time spent awake.
  • * 1995 , Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories (page 144)
    • there are no words to describe the way she negotiated the abyss between her dreams, those wakings strange as her sleepings.