The difference between Knock off and Wax

When used as verbs, knock off means to halt one's work or other activity, 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 noun with the meaning: beeswax.

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

check bellow for the other definitions of Knock off and Wax

  1. Knock off as a noun:

  2. Knock off as a noun:

    A device in a knitting machine to remove loops from the needles.

  1. Knock off as a verb (intransitive, slang):

    To halt one's work or other activity.

    Examples:

    "I think I'll knock off for the evening and go to bed."

  2. Knock off as a verb (transitive, slang):

    To kill.

    Examples:

    "The mobsters hired the guy to knock off their enemies."

  3. Knock off as a verb (transitive):

    To remove, as a discount or estimate.

    Examples:

    "They agreed to knock off 20% of the price."

  4. Knock off as a verb (transitive, slang):

    To rob.

    Examples:

    "They decided to knock off a liquor store downtown."

  5. Knock off as a verb (transitive):

    To make a copy of, as of a design.

    Examples:

    "They send people to the shows in Milan for "ideas", which means knocking off the designs they guess would sell."

  6. Knock off as a verb (transitive):

    To assign (an item) to a bidder at an auction, indicated by knocking on the counter.

  7. Knock off as a verb (transitive, slang):

    To have sex with.

  8. Knock off as a verb (transitive, informal):

    To accomplish hastily.

    Examples:

    "I knocked off a couple of quick sketches before the design meeting."

  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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