wash
see also: WASH, Wash
Pronunciation
WASH
Noun
Wash
Proper noun
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see also: WASH, Wash
Pronunciation
- (RP) IPA: /wɒʃ/
- (GA) IPA: /wɔʃ/
- (Canada, NYC, cot-caught) IPA: /wɑʃ/
- (America, intrusive r) IPA: /wɔɹʃ/
wash (washes, present participle washing; past washed, past participle washed)
- To clean with water.
- The car is so dirty, we need to wash it.
- Dishwashers wash dishes much more efficiently than most humans.
- 1917, Lester Angell Round, Harold Locke Lang, Preservation of vegetables by fermentation and salting, page 9
- Wash the vegetables, drain off the surplus water, and pack them in a keg, crock, or other utensil until it is nearly full
- 1971, Homemaking Handbook: For Village Workers in Many Countries, page 101
- If using celery or okra, wash the vegetables in safe water.
- 2010, Catherine Abbott, The Everything Grow Your Own Vegetables Book: Your Complete Guide to planting, tending, and harvesting vegetables, Everything Books ISBN 9781440500145, page 215
- Wash the vegetables thoroughly; even a little dirt can contain bacteria. Wash vegetables individually under running water.
- (transitive) To move or erode by the force of water in motion.
- Heavy rains wash a road or an embankment.
- The flood washed away houses.
- (mining) To separate valuable material (such as gold) from worthless material by the action of flowing water.
- (intransitive) To clean oneself with water.
- I wash every morning after getting up.
- (transitive) To cover with water or any liquid; to wet; to fall on and moisten.
- Waves wash the shore.
- a. 1645, John Milton, “L'Allegro”, in Poems of Mr. John Milton, […] , London: Printed by Ruth Raworth for Humphrey Moſely, […], published 1645, OCLC 606951673 ↗:
- fresh-blown roses washed with dew
- [the landscape] washed with a cold, grey mist
- (intransitive) To move with a lapping or swashing sound; to lap or splash.
- to hear the water washing
- (intransitive) To be eroded or carried away by the action of water.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To be cogent, convincing; to withstand critique.
- 2012, The Economist, Oct 13th 2012 issue, The Jordan and its king: As beleaguered as ever ↗
- The king is running out of ideas as well as cash. His favourite shock-absorbing tactic—to blame his governments and sack his prime ministers—hardly washes.
- 2012, The Economist, Oct 13th 2012 issue, The Jordan and its king: As beleaguered as ever ↗
- (intransitive) To bear without injury the operation of being washed.
- Some calicoes do not wash.
- (intransitive) To be wasted or worn away by the action of water, as by a running or overflowing stream, or by the dashing of the sea; said of road, a beach, etc.
- To cover with a thin or watery coat of colour; to tint lightly and thinly.
- To overlay with a thin coat of metal.
- steel washed with silver
- (transitive) To cause dephosphorization of (molten pig iron) by adding substances containing iron oxide, and sometimes manganese oxide.
- (transitive) To pass (a gas or gaseous mixture) through or over a liquid for the purpose of purifying it, especially by removing soluble constituents.
- German: wegspülen
- Russian: смыва́ть
- Russian: промыва́ть
- Spanish: lavar
- French: se laver, faire sa toilette
- German: sich waschen
- Italian: lavarsi
- Portuguese: lavar-se
- Russian: мы́ться
- Spanish: lavarse
- Russian: размыва́ться
wash (plural washes)
- The process or an instance of washing or being washed by water or other liquid.
- I'm going to have a quick wash before coming to bed.
- My jacket needs a wash.
- A liquid used for washing.
- A lotion or other liquid with medicinal or hygienic properties.
- mouth wash
- hand wash
- The quantity of clothes washed at a time.
- There's a lot in that wash: maybe you should split it into two piles.
- (arts) A smooth and translucent painting#Noun|painting created using a paintbrush holding a large amount of solvent#Noun|solvent and a small amount of paint#Noun|paint.
- The sound of breaking of the seas, e.g., on the shore.
- I could hear the wash of the wave.
- 1924, Herman Melville, Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co., Chapter 16,
- […] the wind in the cordage and the wash of the sea helped the more to put them beyond earshot […]
- The wake of a moving ship.
- The ship left a big wash
- Sail away from the wash to avoid rocking the boat.
- 2003, Guidelines for Managing Wake Wash from High-speed Vessels: Report of Working Group 41 of the Maritime Navigation Commission, PIANC ISBN 9782872231423, page 5
- To date, much of the research undertaken on high-speed vessel wake wash has appeared only as unpublished reports for various authorities and management agencies.
- The turbulence left in the air by a moving airplane.
- Ground washed away to the sea or a river.
- The wash of pastures, fields, commons, and roads, where rain water hath a long time settled.
- A piece of ground washed by the action of water, or sometimes covered and sometimes left dry; the shallowest part of a river, or arm of the sea; also, a bog; a marsh.
- c. 1596, William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act V, scene vi]:
- These Lincoln washes have devoured them.
- A shallow body of water.
In arid and semi-arid regions, the normally dry bed of an intermittent or ephemeral stream; an arroyo or wadi. - 1997, Stanley Desmond Smith, et al. Physiological Ecology of North American Desert Plants, Nature
- In some desert-wash systems (which have been termed “xero-riparian”)
- 1999, Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, A Natural History of the Sonoran Desert
- ...though the wash may carry surface water for only a few hours a year.
- 1997, Stanley Desmond Smith, et al. Physiological Ecology of North American Desert Plants, Nature
- A situation in which losses and gains or advantages and disadvantages are equivalent; a situation in which there is no net change.
- (finance, slang) A fictitious kind of sale of stock or other securities between parties of one interest, or by a broker who is both buyer and seller, and who minds his own interest rather than that of his clients.
- Waste liquid, the refuse of food, the collection from washed dishes, etc., from a kitchen, often used as food for pigs; pigwash.
- In distilling, the fermented wort before the spirit is extracted.
- A mixture of dunder, molasses, water, and scummings, used in the West Indies for distillation.
- A thin coat of paint or metal laid on anything for beauty or preservation.
- (nautical) The blade of an oar.
- The backward current or disturbed water caused by the action of oars, or of a steamer's screw or paddles, etc.
- Ten strikes, or bushels, of oysters.
- (architecture) The upper surface of a member or material when given a slope to shed water; hence, a structure or receptacle shaped so as to receive and carry off water.
- a carriage wash in a stable
- (television) A lighting effect that fills a scene with a chosen colour.
- (stagecraft) A lighting fixture that can cast a wide beam of light to evenly fill an area with light, as opposed to a spotlight.
- French: machine
- Russian: бельё
- German: Lavierung
- Russian: прибо́й
- Russian: попу́тная струя́
- Russian: лосьо́н
- Spanish: enjuague
- Russian: мелково́дье
- French: oeud
WASH
Noun
wash (uncountable)
- Acronym of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene
Wash
Proper noun
- The square-shaped bay and estuary on the northwest margin of East Anglia in England.
- A male given name.
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