Record vs. Wax — What's the Difference?

To set down for preservation in writing or other permanent form

Waxes are a diverse class of organic compounds that are lipophilic, malleable solids near ambient temperatures. They include higher alkanes and lipids, typically with melting points above about 40 °C (104 °F), melting to give low viscosity liquids.

To register or indicate

A sticky yellowish mouldable substance secreted by honeybees as the material of a honeycomb; beeswax.

To render (sound or images) into permanent form for reproduction in a magnetic or electronic medium.

Used in reference to records

To record the words, sound, appearance, or performance of (someone or something)

A fit of anger

To record something.

Cover or treat (something) with wax or a similar substance, typically to polish or protect it

An account, as of information or facts, set down especially in writing as a means of preserving knowledge.

Make a recording of

Something on which such an account is based.

(of the moon between new and full) have a progressively larger part of its visible surface illuminated, increasing its apparent size.

Something that records

Begin to speak or write about something in the specified manner

Information or data on a particular subject collected and preserved

Any of various natural, oily or greasy heat-sensitive substances, consisting of hydrocarbons or esters of fatty acids that are insoluble in water but soluble in nonpolar organic solvents.

The known history of performance, activities, or achievement

Beeswax.

An unsurpassed measurement

Earwax.

(Computers) A collection of related, often adjacent items of data, treated as a unit.

A solid plastic or pliable liquid substance, such as ozocerite or paraffin, originating from petroleum and found in rock layers and used in paper coating, as insulation, in crayons, and often in medicinal preparations.

(Law) A transcript or a collection of statements and related information reporting the proceedings of a legislative body, a court, or an executive.

A preparation containing wax used for polishing floors and other surfaces.

A disk designed to be played on a phonograph.

A resinous mixture used by shoemakers to rub on thread.

A musical recording that is issued on a medium of some kind.

A cosmetic procedure in which facial or body hair is removed by peeling away a layer of wax that has been allowed to harden.

An item of information put into a temporary or permanent physical medium.

A fit of anger

Any instance of a physical medium on which information was put for the purpose of preserving it and making it available for future reference.

Made of wax

Ellipsis of phonograph record: a disc, usually made from vinyl, on which sound is recorded and may be replayed on a phonograph.

To coat, treat, or polish with wax.

(computing) A set of data relating to a single individual or item.

To remove (facial or body hair) by covering the skin with a layer of wax that is peeled off after hardening, uprooting the encased hairs.

(programming) A data structure similar to a struct, in some programming languages such as C# and Java based on classes and designed for storing immutable data.

To remove hair from (a portion of the body) by this method.

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To increase gradually in size, number, strength, or intensity

The most extreme known value of some variable, particularly that of an achievement in competitive events.

To show a progressively larger illuminated area, as the moon does in passing from new to full.

(attributive) Enough to break previous records and set a new one; world-class; extreme.

To grow or become as specified

(transitive) To make a record of information.

To speak or write as specified

(transitive) To make an audio or video recording of.

Beeswax.

To give legal status to by making an official public record.

Earwax.

(intransitive) To fix in a medium, usually in a tangible medium.

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

(intransitive) To make an audio, video, or multimedia recording.

Any preparation containing wax, used as a polish.

To repeat; to practice.

The phonograph record format for music.

To sing or repeat a tune.

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

(obsolete) To reflect; to ponder.

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

To recall to mind; to recollect; to remember; to meditate.

(rare) The process of growing.

To repeat; to recite; to sing or play.

An outburst of anger, a loss of temper, a fit of rage.

To preserve the memory of, by committing to writing, to printing, to inscription, or the like; to make note of; to write or enter in a book or on parchment, for the purpose of preserving authentic evidence of; to register; to enroll; as, to record the proceedings of a court; to record historical events.

Made of wax.

To reflect; to ponder.

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

To sing or repeat a tune.

(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.

A writing by which some act or event, or a number of acts or events, is recorded; a register; as, a record of the acts of the Hebrew kings; a record of the variations of temperature during a certain time; a family record.

To defeat utterly.

An official contemporaneous writing by which the acts of some public body, or public officer, are recorded; as, a record of city ordinances; the records of the receiver of taxes.

To kill, especially to murder a person.

Testimony; witness; attestation.

To record.

That which serves to perpetuate a knowledge of acts or events; a monument; a memorial.

To increasingly assume the specified characteristic.

That which has been, or might be, recorded; the known facts in the course, progress, or duration of anything, as in the life of a public man; as, a politician with a good or a bad record.

To grow.

That which has been publicly achieved in any kind of competitive sport as recorded in some authoritative manner, as the time made by a winning horse in a race.

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

Anything (such as a document or a phonograph record or a photograph) providing permanent evidence of or information about past events;

To move from low tide to high tide.

The number of wins versus losses and ties a team has had;

To increase in size; to grow bigger; to become larger or fuller; - opposed to wane.

An extreme attainment; the best (or worst) performance ever attested (as in a sport);

To pass from one state to another; to become; to grow; as, to wax strong; to wax warmer or colder; to wax feeble; to wax old; to wax worse and worse.

Sound recording consisting of a disc with continuous grooves; formerly used to reproduce music by rotating while a phonograph needle tracked in the grooves

To smear or rub with wax; to treat with wax; as, to wax a thread or a table.

The sum of recognized accomplishments;

A fatty, solid substance, produced by bees, and employed by them in the construction of their comb; - usually called beeswax. It is first excreted, from a row of pouches along their sides, in the form of scales, which, being masticated and mixed with saliva, become whitened and tenacious. Its natural color is pale or dull yellow.

A list of crimes for which an accused person has been previously convicted;

Hence, any substance resembling beeswax in consistency or appearance.

A compilation of the known facts regarding something or someone;

Cerumen, or earwax.

A document that can serve as legal evidence of a transaction;

A waxlike composition used for uniting surfaces, for excluding air, and for other purposes; as, sealing wax, grafting wax, etching wax, etc.

Make a record of; set down in permanent form

A waxlike composition used by shoemakers for rubbing their thread.

Register electronically;

A substance similar to beeswax, secreted by several species of scale insects, as the Chinese wax. See Wax insect, below.

Indicate a certain reading; of gauges and instruments;

A waxlike product secreted by certain plants. See Vegetable wax, under Vegetable.

Be aware of;

A substance, somewhat resembling wax, found in connection with certain deposits of rock salt and coal; - called also mineral wax, and ozocerite.

Be or provide a memorial to a person or an event;

Thick sirup made by boiling down the sap of the sugar maple, and then cooling.

Any of numerous substances or mixtures composed predominantly of the longer-chain saturated hydrocarbons such as the paraffins, which are solid at room teperature, or their alcohol, carboxylic acid, or ester derivatives.

Any of various substances of either mineral origin or plant or animal origin; they are solid at normal temperatures and insoluble in water

Cover with wax;

Go up or advance;

Increase in phase;