The difference between Disk and Wax

When used as nouns, disk means a thin, flat, circular plate or similar object, whereas wax means beeswax.

When used as verbs, disk means to harrow, whereas wax means to apply wax to (something, such as a shoe, a floor, a car, or an apple), usually to make it shiny.

Wax is also adjective with the meaning: made of wax.

check bellow for the other definitions of Disk and Wax

  1. Disk as a noun:

    A thin, flat, circular plate or similar object.

    Examples:

    "A coin is a disk of metal."

  2. Disk as a noun (figuratively):

    Something resembling a disk.

    Examples:

    "Venus' disk cut off light from the Sun."

  3. Disk as a noun (anatomy):

    An intervertebral disc

  4. Disk as a noun (dated):

    A vinyl phonograph/gramophone record.

    Examples:

    "Turn the disk over, after it has finished."

  5. Disk as a noun (computing):

    - removable magnetic medium or a hard disk - fixed, persistent digital storage.

    Examples:

    "He still uses floppy disks from 1979."

  6. Disk as a noun (computing, nonstandard):

    A disc - either a CD-ROM, an audio CD, a DVD or similar removable storage medium.

    Examples:

    "She burned some disks yesterday to back up her computer."

  7. Disk as a noun (agriculture):

    A harrow.

  8. Disk as a noun (botany):

    A ring- or cup-shaped enlargement of the flower receptacle or ovary that bears nectar or, less commonly, the stamens.

  1. Disk as a verb (agriculture):

    to harrow

  1. Wax as a noun:

    Beeswax.

  2. Wax as a noun:

    Earwax.

    Examples:

    "What role does the wax in your earhole fulfill?"

  3. Wax as a noun:

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

  4. Wax as a noun:

    Any preparation containing wax, used as a polish.

  5. Wax as a noun (uncountable):

    The phonograph record format for music.

  6. Wax as a noun (US, dialect):

    A thick syrup made by boiling down the sap of the sugar maple and then cooling it.

  7. Wax as a noun (US, slang):

    A type of drugs with as main ingredients weed oil and butane; hash oil

  1. Wax as an adjective:

    Made of wax.

  1. Wax as a verb (transitive):

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

  2. Wax as a verb (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.

  3. Wax as a verb (transitive, informal):

    To defeat utterly.

  4. Wax as a verb (transitive, slang):

    To kill, especially to murder a person.

  5. Wax as a verb (transitive, archaic, usually, of a musical or oral performance):

    To record.

  6. Wax as a verb (intransitive):

    To increase (phase of the Moon or other planet). Example The Moon is waxing.

  1. Wax as a verb (intransitive, with adjective):

    To increasingly assume the specified characteristic, become.

    Examples:

    "to [[wax lyrical]];  to wax eloquent;  to [[wax wode]]"

  2. Wax as a verb (intransitive, literary):

    To grow.

  3. Wax as a verb (intransitive, of the [[moon]]):

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

  4. Wax as a verb (intransitive, of the [[tide]]):

    To move from low tide to high tide.

  1. Wax as a noun (rare):

    The process of growing.

  1. Wax as a noun (dated, colloquial):

    An outburst of anger.

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