create vs wax

create

verb
  • To bring into existence; (sometimes in particular:) 

  • In theatre, to be the first performer of a role; to originate a character. 

  • To confer or invest with a rank or title of nobility, to appoint, ordain or constitute. 

  • To cause, to bring (a non-object) about by an action, behavior, or event, to occasion. 

  • To make or produce from other (e.g. raw, unrefined or scattered) materials or combinable elements or ideas; to design or invest with a new form, shape, function, etc. 

  • To make a fuss, complain; to shout. 

  • To be or do something creative, imaginative, originative. 

  • To bring into existence out of nothing, without the prior existence of the materials or elements used. 

wax

verb
  • To increasingly assume the specified characteristic. 

  • To defeat utterly. 

  • To move from low tide to high tide. 

  • 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 kill, especially to murder a person. 

  • To grow. 

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

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

adj
  • Made of wax. 

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

  • Any preparation containing wax, used as a polish. 

  • Beeswax. 

  • The process of growing. 

  • Earwax. 

  • 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. 

  • The phonograph record format for music. 

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