waxing
Pronunciation
This text is extracted from the Wiktionary and it is available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 license | Terms and conditions | Privacy policy 0.002
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈwæksɪŋ/
- present participle of wax#English|wax
waxing
- 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?
- 1983, Youlan Feng, Derk Bodde, A History of Chinese Philosophy, Vol. 2, p. 427:
- (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. [from 1940s]
- Portuguese: enceramento
- French: épilation à la cire, waxing
- German: Wachsen, Waxing
- Portuguese: depilação com cera
- Russian: воскова́я эпиля́ция
This text is extracted from the Wiktionary and it is available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 license | Terms and conditions | Privacy policy 0.002