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单词 sealing wax
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Definition of sealing wax in English:

sealing wax

nounˈsiːlɪŋ waksˈsilɪŋ ˌwæks
mass noun
  • A mixture of shellac and rosin with turpentine and pigment, softened by heating and used to make seals.

    封蜡,火漆

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Flemish pictures of the 15th century often show devotional woodcuts fixed to a wall with sealing wax, and already flyblown and curling up.
    • Turning it over, she found it'd been sealed with some old-fashioned sealing wax and embossed with an N.
    • She has to supervise all the ordering, keeping, storing and counting of every kind of supply aboard the ship, from sealing wax to cabbages.
    • Grinning to myself, I lit a candle to melt his sealing wax and then proceeded to reseal each envelope with a dab of wax beneath the embossed seals I had just removed.
    • They can be ground down by a continual drive to reduce costs - leading them to be specialists in string and sealing wax solutions.
    • Scrap wood, darning needles, string and sealing wax held his flimsy contraption together.
    • It was assembled from coffee cans, sealing wax, and leftover laboratory equipment.
    • Then she sealed it with some pretty blue sealing wax.
    • The store clerk put the ribbon into the parcel, and tied it all up with string and sealing wax.
    • In Henry III's reign, we can measure the amount of sealing wax which the chancery used.
    • I can still string a box, do the sealing wax and sliding knots, all because of Joan.
    • It was primly addressed to ‘Miss Ashton’, but the red sealing wax was dimpled with a casual thumb-print rather than an official crest.
    • Moyes rose (R. moyesii) has hips that look like shiny, red 11/2-inch-long, bottle-shaped sticks of sealing wax.

Definition of sealing wax in US English:

sealing wax

nounˈsilɪŋ ˌwæksˈsēliNG ˌwaks
  • A mixture of shellac and rosin with turpentine and pigment, softened by heating and used to make seals.

    封蜡,火漆

    Example sentencesExamples
    • They can be ground down by a continual drive to reduce costs - leading them to be specialists in string and sealing wax solutions.
    • I can still string a box, do the sealing wax and sliding knots, all because of Joan.
    • Turning it over, she found it'd been sealed with some old-fashioned sealing wax and embossed with an N.
    • She has to supervise all the ordering, keeping, storing and counting of every kind of supply aboard the ship, from sealing wax to cabbages.
    • Grinning to myself, I lit a candle to melt his sealing wax and then proceeded to reseal each envelope with a dab of wax beneath the embossed seals I had just removed.
    • Then she sealed it with some pretty blue sealing wax.
    • The store clerk put the ribbon into the parcel, and tied it all up with string and sealing wax.
    • Scrap wood, darning needles, string and sealing wax held his flimsy contraption together.
    • It was assembled from coffee cans, sealing wax, and leftover laboratory equipment.
    • Flemish pictures of the 15th century often show devotional woodcuts fixed to a wall with sealing wax, and already flyblown and curling up.
    • In Henry III's reign, we can measure the amount of sealing wax which the chancery used.
    • It was primly addressed to ‘Miss Ashton’, but the red sealing wax was dimpled with a casual thumb-print rather than an official crest.
    • Moyes rose (R. moyesii) has hips that look like shiny, red 11/2-inch-long, bottle-shaped sticks of sealing wax.
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