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increase
English
Alternative forms
- encrease (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English increse, borrowed from Anglo-Norman encreistre, from Latin increscere (“increase”), present active infinitive of incresc?, from in (“in, on”) + cresc? (“grow”).
The verb is from Middle English incresen, encresen.
Pronunciation
- (verb): enPR: ?nkr?s?, IPA(key): /?n?k?i?s/
- (noun): enPR: ?n?kr?s, IPA(key): /??nk?i?s/
- Rhymes: -i?s
- Hyphenation: in?crease
Verb
increase (third-person singular simple present increases, present participle increasing, simple past and past participle increased)
- (intransitive) (of a quantity, etc.) To become larger or greater.
- The waters increased and bare up the ark.
- (transitive) To make (a quantity, etc.) larger.
- To multiply by the production of young; to be fertile, fruitful, or prolific.
- 1677, Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature
- Fishes are infinitely more numerous of increasing than Beasts or Birds, as appears by the numerous Spawn.
- 1677, Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature
- (astronomy, intransitive) To become more nearly full; to show more of the surface; to wax.
Synonyms
- (become larger): wax, go up, grow, rise, soar (rapidly), shoot up (rapidly); See also Thesaurus:increase
- (make larger): increment, raise, up (informal); See also Thesaurus:augment
- (multiply by production of young): proliferate, propagate, teem
- (to show more of the surface): wax
Antonyms
- (become larger): decrease, drop, fall, go down, plummet (rapidly), plunge (rapidly), reduce, shrink, sink; See also Thesaurus:decrease
- (make larger): cut, decrease, decrement, lower, reduce; See also Thesaurus:diminish
- (multiply by production of young):
- (to show more of the surface): wane
Derived terms
- increasable
- Increase
Translations
Noun
increase (countable and uncountable, plural increases)
- An amount by which a quantity is increased.
- 2018, VOA Learning English > China's Melting Glacier Brings Visitors, Adds to Climate Concerns
- She says an increase in melting from climate change may put that at risk.
- 2018, VOA Learning English > China's Melting Glacier Brings Visitors, Adds to Climate Concerns
- For a quantity, the act or process of becoming larger
- Offspring, progeny
- (knitting) The creation of one or more new stitches; see Increase (knitting).
Synonyms
- (amount by which a quantity is increased): gain, increment, raise (US, said of pay), rise; See also Thesaurus:adjunct or Thesaurus:acquisition
- (act or process of becoming larger): enlargement, expansion; See also Thesaurus:augmentation
Antonyms
- (amount by which a quantity is increased): cut, decrease, decrement, drop, fall, loss, lowering, reduction, shrinkage; See also Thesaurus:decrement
- (act or process of becoming larger): decline, decrease, diminishment; See also Thesaurus:diminution
Translations
Further reading
- increase in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- increase in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- increase at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- Cairenes, Ceresian, cerasine, resiance
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wax
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: w?ks, IPA(key): /wæks/
- Rhymes: -æks
- Homophones: whacks (in accents with the wine-whine merger), wacks
Etymology 1
From Middle English wax, from Old English weax, from Proto-Germanic *wahs?, from Proto-Indo-European *wo?-so-. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Woaks (“wax”), West Frisian waaks (“wax”), Dutch was (“wax”), German Wachs (“wax”), Norwegian voks (“wax”); and with Lithuanian vaškas (“wax”), Proto-Slavic *vosk? (“wax”).
Noun
wax (countable and uncountable, plural waxes)
- Beeswax.
- Earwax.
- Synonym: (medical term) cerumen
- Any oily, water-resistant, solid or semisolid substance; normally long-chain hydrocarbons, alcohols or esters.
- Any preparation containing wax, used as a polish.
- Synonym: polish
- (uncountable, music, informal) The phonograph record format for music.
- Synonyms: vinyl, record
- 1943, Time
- What really started the corn sprouting on Broadway was a lugubrious tune by Louisiana's Jimmie Davis called It Makes No Difference Now. In the late '30s Decca's Recording Chief David Kapp heard this Texas hit and got it on wax.
- (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
Derived terms
Translations
Adjective
wax (not comparable)
- Made of wax.
Synonyms
- waxen
Derived terms
See under the noun section above
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English waxen, from the noun (see above).
Verb
wax (third-person singular simple present waxes, present participle waxing, simple past and past participle waxed)
- (transitive) To apply wax to (something, such as a shoe, a floor, a car, or an apple), usually to make it shiny.
- Synonyms: buff, shine, polish, furbish, burnish
- (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.
- (transitive, informal) To defeat utterly.
- (transitive, slang) To kill, especially to murder a person.
- Synonyms: bump off, knock off, whack; see also Thesaurus:kill
- 2009, Dean R. Koontz and Ed Gorman, Dean Koontz's Frankenstein: City of Night, ?ISBN, page 106:
- "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?"
- (transitive, archaic, usually of a musical or oral performance) To record. [from 1900]
Derived terms
Translations
Etymology 3
From Middle English waxen, from Old English weaxan (“to wax, grow, be fruitful, increase, become powerful, flourish”), from Proto-Germanic *wahsijan? (“to grow”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?weg- (“to grow, increase”). Cognate with Scots wax (“to grow”), West Frisian waakse (“to grow”), Low German wassen, Dutch wassen (“to grow”), German wachsen (“to grow”), Danish and Norwegian vokse (“to grow”), Swedish växa (“to grow”), Icelandic vaxa (“to grow”), Gothic ???????????????????????????? (wahsjan, “to grow”); and with Ancient Greek ?????? (aéxein), Latin auxilium. It is in its turn cognate with augeo. See eke.
Verb
wax (third-person singular simple present waxes, present participle waxing, simple past waxed or (archaic) wex, past participle waxed or (dialectal, archaic) waxen)
- (intransitive, copulative, literary) To increasingly assume the specified characteristic.
- Synonym: become
- (intransitive, literary) To grow.
- Antonym: wane
- (intransitive, of the moon) To appear larger each night as a progression from a new moon to a full moon.
- (intransitive, of the tide) To move from low tide to high tide.
Usage notes
- Older forms are: 2nd per. sing, waxest (archaic), 3rd per. sing. waxeth (archaic), and plural form waxen (obsolete).
- Alternative simple past form is wex (obsolete) and the alternative past participle is waxen (obsolete).
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Noun
wax (uncountable)
- (rare) The process of growing.
Derived terms
- wax-kernel
- waxless
Translations
Etymology 4
Origin uncertain; probably from phrases like to wax angry, wax wode, and similar (see Etymology 2, above).
Noun
wax (plural waxes)
- (dated, colloquial) An outburst of anger.
- 1970, John Glassco, Memoirs of Montparnasse, New York 2007, page 161:
- ‘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!’
- 1970, John Glassco, Memoirs of Montparnasse, New York 2007, page 161:
Derived terms
- waxy
See also
- waxen-kernel
- waxloke
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old English weax, from Proto-Germanic *wahs?.
Alternative forms
- waxe, wex, wexe, waxs, wexs, vax, vex
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /waks/, /w?ks/
Noun
wax (plural waxes)
- wax (beeswax, sealing wax, etc.)
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Chaucer to this entry?)
Related terms
- grene wax
- medewax
- waxen (“to wax”)
Descendants
- English: wax
- Scots: wax
References
- “wax, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Etymology 2
A back-formation from waxen (“to grow”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /waks/
Noun
wax (uncountable)
- (rare) growth, increase
Descendants
- English: wax
References
- “wax, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Etymology 3
Verb
wax
- Alternative form of waxen (“to grow”)
Etymology 4
Verb
wax
- Alternative form of waxen (“to wax”)
Somali
Noun
wax ?
- something
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