wax down
动词 v.
英文释义
动词 v.
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To rub or polish with wax to create a slick, shiny and/or waterproof coating; to wax.
— We're waxin' down our surfboards / We can't wait for June
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To stiffen by coating or permeating with wax.
— The paper should be as thin and tough as possible – for example, typewriter paper, The equal sheets thus prepared must now be waxed down by aid of a hot iron on the carefully prepared wooden boards, paper side out.
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To coat (hair) with an oily or waxy substance in order to hold it in place.
— She divided the rest of the hair into 4 equal parts, twisted each part and tied it into 3 knots. Those she waxed down to my skull with 4 pins to the knot .
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To generate a layer of wax that completely covers.
— If the hive is suspected of being queenless, a queen-cell from another hive, with the pupa ready to hatch out, is sometimes placed in it, when, if the new queen is required, the bees will take to her, but should they have a queen and do not require a new one, they will wax down the queen-cell that was inserted so that the young queen cannot hatch out; a specimen of a cell so waxed down is exhibited.
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To seal over with wax, in order to make airtight and watertight.
— We complied instantly with these instructions, and digging, soon found a bottle corked and waxed down, wherein was a letter from Captain Cook informing us of their arrival at this place on the 3rd instant, and departure on the 24th, and that they intended spending a few days in the entrance of the straits to look for us.
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To paste into place using wax.
— For delicate small-scale line-drawing, the thick blue paper, such as is used for ledgers, &c., imperial size, answers exceedingly well; but it does not bear damp-stretching without injury, and should be merely pinned or waxed down to the board.
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To taper off; to gradually quiet or diminish.
— See how sin, even from Adam to Cain, had grown up to murder and defiance of God! See how it then waxed down to the death of all flesh in the judgment of the flood!
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