borax
/ˈbɔː.ɹæks/US/ˈbɔɹ.æks/
borax noun: a white or gray/grey crystalline salt, found in nature as a mineral, with a slight alkaline taste, used as a flux, in soldering metals, making enamels, fixing colors/colours on porcelain, and as a soap, etc.
Noun
borax (usually uncountable, plural boraxes or boraces)
- A white or gray/grey crystalline salt, found in nature as a mineral, with a slight alkaline taste, used as a flux, in soldering metals, making enamels, fixing colors/colours on porcelain, and as a soap, etc.
- “The best way to clean the machine is to put a pound of borax and a gallon of vinegar in the machine and run the longest, hottest cycle you have,” he says.2025 March 13, Jillian Tracy, “Wash your laundry problems down the drain with these 18 expert-approved products”, in CNN
- The sodium salt of boric acid, Na₂B₄O₇, either anhydrous or with 5 or 10 molecules of water of crystallization.
- Synonyms:
- sodium tetraborate
- Cheap or tawdry furniture or other works of industrial design.
- Furniture isn't made to last thirty years or longer because they took a survey and found that young homemakers like to throw their furniture out and bring in all new, color-coded borax every seven years.1977, Harlan Ellison, Jeffty is Five
Verb
borax (third-person singular simple present boraxes, present participle boraxing, simple past and past participle boraxed)
- To treat with borax.
borax meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Bengali and Telugu
borax in Hindi
- crystalline salt
- सुहागा suhāgā
borax in Tamil
- வெண்காரம், போராக்ஸ், பொரிகம், நீருடை உவர உப்புவகை
borax in Bengali
- সোহাগা
borax in Telugu
- borax
- వెలిగారము veligāramu, టంకము ṭaṅkamu
More languagesFewer languages
- borax in Malayalam
- വെൺകാരം
- borax in Kannada
- ಬಿಳಿಗಾರ, ಬಿಳುಗಾರ, ಬೆಳಗಾರ, ಬೆಳಿಗಾರ
- borax in Gujarati
- ટંકણખાર ṭaṅkaṇkhār
- borax in Sanskrit
- टङ्क ṭaṅka, टगर ṭagara, टङ्कन ṭaṅkana, सौभाग्य sáubhāgya
- borax in Tagalog
- pinse
- borax in Arabic
- بَوْرَق bawraq
- borax in Indonesian
- boraks, bleng, pijer, cetitet
- borax in Persian
- بوره bure
- borax in Vietnamese
- hàn the
- borax in Myanmar
- လက်ချား lakhkya:
Synonyms of borax
Forms of borax
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | boraxes |
| plural | boraces |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | boraxes |
| present participle | boraxing |
| past participle | boraxed |
| past | boraxed |
Origin of borax
From Middle English boras, from Anglo-Norman boreis, from Medieval Latin borax, baurach (“borax”), from Arabic بَوْرَق (bawraq), from Middle Persian bwlk' (bōrag), which yielded Persian بوره (bure).
Words formed from borax
- boracic
- boraciferous
- boracium
- borax bead test
- borise
- borize
- boron
- poke borax
- unboraxed
Phrases with borax
Questions about borax
- What does borax mean?
- Borax means a white or gray/grey crystalline salt, found in nature as a mineral, with a slight alkaline taste, used as a flux, in soldering metals, making enamels, fixing colors/colours on porcelain, and as a soap, etc.
- What is borax in Hindi?
- Borax in Hindi is सुहागा (suhāgā). See Borax meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is borax?
- Borax can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce borax?
- Borax is pronounced /ˈbɔː.ɹæks/.
- What is the plural of borax?
- The plural of borax is boraxes.
Words near borax in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: borax (page history and authors); borax (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); borax (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); టంకము (Telugu) (page history and authors); borax (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); borax (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ટંકણખાર (Gujarati) (page history and authors); टगर (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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