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What (who) is wash - definition

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Wash.; The Wash (movie); Wash (disambiguation); The Wash (film)

Wash

·adj Washy; weak.

II. Wash ·noun A liquid dentifrice.

III. Wash ·noun Ten strikes, or bushels, of oysters.

IV. Wash ·noun A liquid cosmetic for the complexion.

V. Wash ·noun A thin coat of color, ·esp. water color.

VI. Wash ·noun The fermented wort before the spirit is extracted.

VII. Wash ·noun A liquid preparation for the hair; as, a hair wash.

VIII. Wash ·vi To perform the act of Ablution.

IX. Wash ·add. ·vi To use washes, as for the face or hair.

X. Wash ·noun The blade of an oar, or the thin part which enters the water.

XI. Wash ·adj Capable of being washed without injury; washable; as, wash goods.

XII. Wash ·noun A thin coat of metal laid on anything for beauty or preservation.

XIII. Wash ·vt To overlay with a thin coat of metal; as, steel washed with silver.

XIV. Wash ·noun A medical preparation in a liquid form for external application; a lotion.

XV. Wash ·vt To cover with a thin or watery coat of color; to tint lightly and thinly.

XVI. Wash ·add. ·noun An alluvial cone formed by a stream at the base of a mountain.

XVII. Wash ·noun The flow, swash, or breaking of a body of water, as a wave; also, the sound of it.

XVIII. Wash ·vi To bear without injury the operation of being washed; as, some calicoes do not wash.

XIX. Wash ·noun That with which anything is washed, or wetted, smeared, tinted, ·etc., upon the surface.

XX. Wash ·noun A mixture of dunder, molasses, water, and scummings, used in the West Indies for distillation.

XXI. Wash ·noun Substances collected and deposited by the action of water; as, the wash of a sewer, of a river, ·etc.

XXII. Wash ·add. ·noun Gravel and other rock debris transported and deposited by running water; coarse alluvium.

XXIII. Wash ·noun The backward current or disturbed water caused by the action of oars, or of a steamer's screw or paddles, ·etc.

XXIV. Wash ·noun Waste liquid, the refuse of food, the collection from washed dishes, ·etc., from a kitchen, often used as food for pigs.

XXV. Wash ·vt To waste or abrade by the force of water in motion; as, heavy rains wash a road or an Embankment.

XXVI. Wash ·vi To clean anything by rubbing or dipping it in water; to perform the business of cleansing clothes, ore, ·etc., in water.

XXVII. Wash ·noun The act of washing; an ablution; a cleansing, wetting, or dashing with water; hence, a quantity, as of clothes, washed at once.

XXVIII. Wash ·add. ·vt To cause dephosphorisation of (molten pig iron) by adding substances containing iron oxide, and sometimes manganese oxide.

XXIX. Wash ·add. ·vi To move with a lapping or swashing sound, or the like; to Lap; splash; as, to hear the water washing.

XXX. Wash ·add. ·vt To pass (a gas or gaseous mixture) through or over a liquid for the purpose of purifying it, ·esp. by removing soluble constituents.

XXXI. Wash ·vi 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.

XXXII. Wash ·add. ·noun The dry bed of an intermittent stream, sometimes at the bottom of a ca-on; as, the Amargosa wash, Diamond wash;

- called also dry wash.

XXXIII. Wash ·vt To cover with water or any liquid; to Wet; to fall on and moisten; hence, to overflow or dash against; as, waves wash the shore.

XXXIV. Wash ·vt To remove by washing to take away by, or as by, the action of water; to drag or draw off as by the tide;

- often with away, off, out, ·etc.; as, to wash dirt from the hands.

XXXV. Wash ·add. ·noun 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, as a carriage wash in a stable.

XXXVI. Wash ·noun A piece of ground washed by the action of a sea or river, or sometimes covered and sometimes left dry; the shallowest part of a river, or arm of the sea; also, a bog; a marsh; a fen; as, the washes in Lincolnshire.

XXXVII. Wash ·vt To cleanse by ablution, or dipping or rubbing in water; to apply water or other liquid to for the purpose of cleansing; to scrub with water, ·etc., or as with water; as, to wash the hands or body; to wash garments; to wash sheep or wool; to wash the pavement or floor; to wash the bark of trees.

wash

(washes, washing, washed)

Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.

1.

If you wash something, you clean it using water and usually a substance such as soap or detergent.

He got a job washing dishes in a pizza parlour...

It took a long time to wash the mud out of his hair...

Rub down the door and wash off the dust before applying the varnish.

VERB: V n, V n prep, V n with adv

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Wash is also a noun.

That coat could do with a wash...

The treatment leaves hair glossy and lasts 10 to 16 washes.

N-COUNT

2.

If you wash or if you wash part of your body, especially your hands and face, you clean part of your body using soap and water.

They looked as if they hadn't washed in days...

She washed her face with cold water...

You are going to have your dinner, get washed, and go to bed.

VERB: V, V n, get V-ed

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Wash is also a noun.

She had a wash and changed her clothes.

N-COUNT: usu a N in sing

3.

If a sea or river washes somewhere, it flows there gently. You can also say that something carried by a sea or river washes or is washed somewhere.

The sea washed against the shore...

The force of the water washed him back into the cave.

VERB: V prep/adv, V n with adv, also V n prep

4.

The wash of a boat is the wave that it causes on either side as it moves through the water.

...the wash from large ships.

N-SING: the N

5.

If a feeling washes over you, you suddenly feel it very strongly and cannot control it. (WRITTEN)

A wave of self-consciousness can wash over her when someone new enters the room...

VERB: V over/through n

6.

If you say that an excuse or idea will not wash, you mean that people will not accept or believe it. (INFORMAL)

He said her policies didn't work and the excuses didn't wash...

If they believe that solution would wash with the Haitian people, they are making a dramatic error.

VERB: usu with brd-neg, V, V with n

7.

see also washing

8.

If you say that something such as an item of clothing is in the wash, you mean that it is being washed, is waiting to be washed, or has just been washed and should therefore not be worn or used. (INFORMAL)

Your jeans are in the wash.

PHRASE: V inflects

9.

to wash your dirty linen in public: see dirty

to wash your hands of something: see hand

wash

I

n.

laundry

1) to do the wash

2) to hang out the wash

3) the weekly wash

installation for washing

4) a car wash

II

v.

1) (D; tr.) to wash for (would you please wash the dishes for me?)

2) (misc.) to be washed overboard USAGE NOTE: In AE, to wash up means 'to wash one's hands and face'; in BE, it means 'to do the dishes'.

Wikipedia

Wash

Wash or the Wash may refer to:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wash

Examples of use of wash

1. Wash bag McGlynn was found to have 16,500 in cash in a wash bag.

2. The organ was discovered in a corner of a manual wash bay at Soapy‘s Car Wash, Paw Paw police said.

3. Democrats Not Voting Cantwell, Wash.; Johnson, S.D.

4. Of course, you‘d wash your shirt if you could – and when you did wash it, you‘d hang it on a bit of line.

5. The music would be playing low in the background and he loved to wash me, rub my feet and wash my hair.