wax and wane

wax | American Dictionary

wax
noun[ U ]
us/wæks/

waxnoun[U] (SUBSTANCE)

a solid, fatty substance that softens and melts at a low temperature:
Candle wax dripped on the tablecloth.
wax
verb
us/wæks/

waxverb (APPEAR LARGER)

[ I ]
(of the moon) to gradually appear larger and increasingly round:
fig. Such controversies have waxed and waned (= become stronger and weaker) but continue to this day.

waxverb (BECOME)

[ L ]fml
to become:
Brad waxed eloquent on the subject of free enterprise.

waxverb (USE SUBSTANCE)

[ T ]
to put a thin layer of wax on the surface of something:
I just waxed the floor, so don’t go in there yet.

Examples of wax

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The fact that these disorders wax and wane despite optimal drug treatments suggests that the popular concept of "brain disease" is overly static and reductionistic.
These students constantly drifted away from the society and throughout the late nineteenth century membership levels waxed and waned dramatically.
There are almost no technological grounds to withhold wax tablets from the hands of composers of polyphony anytime from the eleventh to the fifteenth century.
But wax modelling of plants and flowers belongs to a larger artistic history that includes modelling portraits, effigies, reliefs, and medals.
And once, later, the second prior of the monastery confiscated his writing tablets, and completely destroyed what he had written on the wax.
Small pieces of tissue were fixed with 3.7% formaldehyde and then embedded in paraffin wax.
Melted paraffin wax was poured over the agar to provide an effective hydraulic seal.
This cycle waxes and wanes at variable intervals; between spindles, thalamocortical neurons are depolarized.
Phonograph cylinders were made of wax, and thus only withstood a very limited number of replayings before the groove was worn.
Into the early nineteenth century, modellers continued to produce anatomical-pathological works in wax for museums and medical schools.
The officiating priest places wax and mutton fat in their hands.
For instance, biological, emotional, cognitive, and behavioral indexes of psychopathology may wax and wane with maturation.
The system is described by the evolution of the liquid and solid wax fraction and it goes through several stages exhibiting free boundaries.
Consequently, the wax maintains its (volumetric) magnitude while the surface areas of its transformed shape become larger.
The puparia secrete dense dorsal curls of wax, but the individuals remain unobtrusive through being widely scattered.
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