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Washing

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. The act or process of one that washes.

n. Articles washed or intended to be washed at one time: the week's washing.

n. The residue after an ore or other material has been washed.

n. The liquid used to wash something. Often used in the plural.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. The action of the verb to wash

n. Clothing, bed linen or soft furnishings that have been, are currently being, or are to be washed; laundry.

n. The residue after an ore, etc, has been washed

n. the liquid used to wash an ore

v. Present participle of wash.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. The act of one who washes; the act of cleansing with water; ablution.

n. The clothes washed, esp. at one time; a wash.

n. Gold dust procured by washing; also, a place where this is done; a washery.

n. A thin covering or coat.

n. The operation of simultaneously buying and selling the same stock for the purpose of manipulating the market. The transaction is fictitious, and is prohibited by stock-exchange rules.

n. The covering of a piece with an infusible powder, which prevents it from sticking to its supports, while receiving the glaze.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. The purification of molten cast-iron by additions to the bath of metal in the hearth of a furnace; specifically the oxidization of phosphorus and sulphur by the addition of ores of pure oxid of iron, or those that contain manganese oxid.

n. The act of cleansing with water; ablution.

n. Clothes washed, especially those washed at one time: awash.

n. 3. The result of washing; that which is washed from something else, as gold dust.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. garments or white goods that can be cleaned by laundering

n. the work of cleansing (usually with soap and water)

Word Usage

"In the first twenty minutes this friend was there, I answered the door, found a vase for flowers, took two phone messages, brought up cups of tea, brought in the washing, hung out a second load of washing*, tidied the kitchen."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

household linen garment white goods

Cross Reference

wash to give one's head for washing

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

ablution wash washery lavatory laundry

Verb Stem

wash

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

sloshing squashing