'Wash' definitions:
Definition of 'wash'
From: WordNet
noun
A thin coat of water-base paint
noun
noun
The dry bed of an intermittent stream (as at the bottom of a canyon) [syn: wash, dry wash]
noun
The erosive process of washing away soil or gravel by water (as from a roadway); "from the house they watched the washout of their newly seeded lawn by the water" [syn: washout, wash]
noun
The flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller [syn: slipstream, airstream, race, backwash, wash]
noun
A watercolor made by applying a series of monochrome washes one over the other [syn: wash, wash drawing]
noun
noun
Any enterprise in which losses and gains cancel out; "at the end of the year the accounting department showed that it was a wash"
verb
Clean with some chemical process [syn: wash, rinse]
verb
Cleanse (one's body) with soap and water [syn: wash, lave]
verb
Cleanse with a cleaning agent, such as soap, and water; "Wash the towels, please!" [syn: wash, launder]
verb
Move by or as if by water; "The swollen river washed away the footbridge"
verb
Be capable of being washed; "Does this material wash?"
verb
Admit to testing or proof; "This silly excuse won't wash in traffic court"
verb
Separate dirt or gravel from (precious minerals)
verb
Apply a thin coating of paint, metal, etc., to
verb
Remove by the application of water or other liquid and soap or some other cleaning agent; "he washed the dirt from his coat"; "The nurse washed away the blood"; "Can you wash away the spots on the windows?"; "he managed to wash out the stains" [syn: wash, wash out, wash off, wash away]
verb
Form by erosion; "The river washed a ravine into the mountainside"
verb
verb
verb
To cleanse (itself or another animal) by licking; "The cat washes several times a day"
Definition of 'Wash'
From: GCIDE
- Wash \Wash\ (w[o^]sh), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Washed; p. pr. & vb. n. Washing.] [OE. waschen, AS. wascan; akin to D. wasschen, G. waschen, OHG. wascan, Icel. & Sw. vaska, Dan. vaske, and perhaps to E. water. [root]150.]
- 1. 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. [1913 Webster]
- When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, . . . he took water and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person. --Matt. xxvii. 24. [1913 Webster]
- 2. 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. [1913 Webster]
- Fresh-blown roses washed with dew. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- [The landscape] washed with a cold, gray mist. --Longfellow. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To waste or abrade by the force of water in motion; as, heavy rains wash a road or an embankment. [1913 Webster]
- 4. 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. [1913 Webster]
- Arise, and be baptized, and wash away thy sins. --Acts xxii. 16. [1913 Webster]
- The tide will wash you off. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 5. To cover with a thin or watery coat of color; to tint lightly and thinly. [1913 Webster]
- 6. To overlay with a thin coat of metal; as, steel washed with silver. [1913 Webster]
- 7. To cause dephosphorisation of (molten pig iron) by adding substances containing iron oxide, and sometimes manganese oxide. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
- 8. To pass (a gas or gaseous mixture) through or over a liquid for the purpose of purifying it, esp. by removing soluble constituents. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
- To wash gold, etc., to treat earth or gravel, or crushed ore, with water, in order to separate the gold or other metal, or metallic ore, through their higher density.
- To wash the hands of. See under Hand. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Wash'
From: GCIDE
- Wash \Wash\, n.
- 1. The act of washing; an ablution; a cleansing, wetting, or dashing with water; hence, a quantity, as of clothes, washed at once. [1913 Webster]
- 2. 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. "The Wash of Edmonton so gay." --Cowper. [1913 Webster]
- These Lincoln washes have devoured them. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Substances collected and deposited by the action of water; as, the wash of a sewer, of a river, etc. [1913 Webster]
- The wash of pastures, fields, commons, and roads, where rain water hath a long time settled. --Mortimer. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Waste liquid, the refuse of food, the collection from washed dishes, etc., from a kitchen, often used as food for pigs. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 5. (Distilling) (a) The fermented wort before the spirit is extracted. (b) A mixture of dunder, molasses, water, and scummings, used in the West Indies for distillation. --B. Edwards. [1913 Webster]
- 6. That with which anything is washed, or wetted, smeared, tinted, etc., upon the surface. Specifically: [1913 Webster] (a) A liquid cosmetic for the complexion. [1913 Webster] (b) A liquid dentifrice. [1913 Webster] (c) A liquid preparation for the hair; as, a hair wash. [1913 Webster] (d) A medical preparation in a liquid form for external application; a lotion. [1913 Webster] (e) (Painting) A thin coat of color, esp. water color. [1913 Webster] (j) A thin coat of metal applied in a liquid form on any object, for beauty or preservation; -- called also washing. [1913 Webster +PJC]
- 7. (Naut.) (a) The blade of an oar, or the thin part which enters the water. (b) The backward current or disturbed water caused by the action of oars, or of a steamer's screw or paddles, etc. [1913 Webster]
- 8. The flow, swash, or breaking of a body of water, as a wave; also, the sound of it. [1913 Webster]
- 9. Ten strikes, or bushels, of oysters. [Prov. Eng.] [1913 Webster]
- 10. [Western U. S.] (Geol.) (a) Gravel and other rock d['e]bris transported and deposited by running water; coarse alluvium. (b) An alluvial cone formed by a stream at the base of a mountain. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
- 11. The dry bed of an intermittent stream, sometimes at the bottom of a canyon; as, the Amargosa wash, Diamond wash; -- called also dry wash. [Western U. S.] [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
- 12. (Arch.) 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. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
- 13. an action or situation in which the gains and losses are equal, or closely compensate each other. [PJC]
- 14. (Aeronautics) the disturbance of the air left behind in the wake of a moving airplane or one of its parts. [PJC]
- Wash ball, a ball of soap to be used in washing the hands or face. --Swift.
- Wash barrel (Fisheries), a barrel nearly full of split mackerel, loosely put in, and afterward filled with salt water in order to soak the blood from the fish before salting.
- Wash bottle. (Chem.) (a) A bottle partially filled with some liquid through which gases are passed for the purpose of purifying them, especially by removing soluble constituents. (b) A washing bottle. See under Washing.
- Wash gilding. See Water gilding.
- Wash leather, split sheepskin dressed with oil, in imitation of chamois, or shammy, and used for dusting, cleaning glass or plate, etc.; also, alumed, or buff, leather for soldiers' belts. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Wash'
From: GCIDE
- Wash \Wash\, v. i.
- 1. To perform the act of ablution. [1913 Webster]
- Wash in Jordan seven times. --2 Kings v. 10. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To clean anything by rubbing or dipping it in water; to perform the business of cleansing clothes, ore, etc., in water. "She can wash and scour." --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To bear without injury the operation of being washed; as, some calicoes do not wash. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster]
- 4. 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. [1913 Webster]
- 5. To use washes, as for the face or hair. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
- 6. To move with a lapping or swashing sound, or the like; to lap; splash; as, to hear the water washing. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
- 7. to be accepted as true or valid; to be proven true by subsequent evidence; -- usually used in the negative; as, his alibi won't wash. [informal] [PJC]
Definition of 'Wash'
From: GCIDE
- Wash \Wash\, a.
- 1. Washy; weak. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- Their bodies of so weak and wash a temper. --Beau. & Fl. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Capable of being washed without injury; washable; as, wash goods. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'wash'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- ablution,
- abstergent,
- acrylic painting,
- apply paint,
- aquarelle,
- babble,
- backwash,
- baptize,
- bath,
- bathe,
- baygall,
- be consistent,
- be the case,
- be true,
- be truthful,
- bedaub,
- bedizen,
- begild,
- besmear,
- bog,
- bottom,
- bottomland,
- bottoms,
- brew,
- brush on paint,
- bubble,
- buffalo wallow,
- burble,
- calcimine,
- canvas,
- cathartic,
- chromogen,
- cleaner,
- cleaning agent,
- cleaning out,
- cleaning solvent,
- cleanser,
- cleansing cream,
- coat,
- coat of paint,
- coating,
- cold cream,
- color,
- color filter,
- color gelatin,
- colorant,
- coloring,
- complexion,
- condensation trail,
- conform to fact,
- contrail,
- cover,
- cream,
- dab,
- daub,
- dead-color,
- deep-dye,
- dentifrice,
- depurant,
- detergent,
- dip,
- distemper,
- diuretic,
- double-dye,
- douche,
- douching,
- drench,
- drier,
- drouk,
- dye,
- dyestuff,
- easel-picture,
- elution,
- elutriation,
- emblazon,
- emetic,
- enamel,
- encaustic cerography,
- encaustic painting,
- enema,
- engild,
- everglade,
- exhaust,
- exterior paint,
- face,
- fast-dye,
- fen,
- fenland,
- finger painting,
- flat coat,
- flat wash,
- float,
- floor enamel,
- flower painting,
- flush,
- flush out,
- flushing,
- flushing out,
- fresco,
- fresco painting,
- gargle,
- genre painting,
- gild,
- glade,
- glaze,
- gloss,
- gouache,
- grain,
- grisaille,
- ground,
- guggle,
- gurgle,
- hog wallow,
- hold,
- hold good,
- hold together,
- hold true,
- hold up,
- hold water,
- holm,
- holystone,
- hue,
- illuminate,
- illumination,
- illustration,
- imbrue,
- imbue,
- impasto,
- impregnate,
- infiltrate,
- infuse,
- ingrain,
- inject,
- interior paint,
- irrigate,
- irrigation,
- japan,
- lacquer,
- lap,
- lapping,
- lather,
- lathering,
- launder,
- laundering,
- laundry,
- lavabo,
- lavage,
- lavation,
- lave,
- laving,
- lay on color,
- leach,
- lip,
- lixiviate,
- lotion,
- macerate,
- marais,
- marish,
- marsh,
- marshland,
- meadow,
- medium,
- mere,
- mire,
- monochrome,
- moor,
- moorland,
- mop,
- mop up,
- mopping,
- mopping up,
- morass,
- moss,
- mouthwash,
- mud,
- mud flat,
- mural painting,
- nauseant,
- oil,
- oil painting,
- opaque color,
- paint,
- painting,
- parget,
- peat bog,
- percolate,
- permeate,
- picturization,
- pigment,
- plash,
- portraiture,
- poster painting,
- prime,
- prime coat,
- primer,
- priming,
- prove out,
- prove to be,
- prove true,
- pumice stone,
- purgative,
- purge,
- purifier,
- purl,
- quagmire,
- quicksand,
- remain valid,
- ride,
- rinse,
- rinse out,
- rinsing,
- ripple,
- ritually immerse,
- salt marsh,
- saturate,
- scour,
- scouring,
- scrub,
- scrub up,
- scrubbing,
- scrubbing up,
- seethe,
- shade,
- shadow,
- shampoo,
- shellac,
- shower,
- slob land,
- slop on paint,
- slosh,
- slough,
- sluice,
- sluice out,
- smear,
- soak,
- soap,
- soaping,
- sodden,
- solvent,
- sop,
- sough,
- souse,
- splash,
- sponge,
- sponging,
- stain,
- stand the test,
- stand up,
- steep,
- stick together,
- stipple,
- stream,
- sump,
- swab,
- swabbing,
- swale,
- swamp,
- swampland,
- swash,
- swish,
- synthetic detergent,
- syringe,
- taiga,
- tempera,
- the brush,
- thinner,
- tinct,
- tinction,
- tincture,
- tinge,
- tint,
- toivel,
- tone,
- tooth powder,
- toothpaste,
- track,
- transparent color,
- trill,
- tub,
- tubbing,
- turpentine,
- turps,
- undercoat,
- undercoating,
- vapor trail,
- varnish,
- vehicle,
- vortex,
- wake,
- wallow,
- wash coat,
- wash drawing,
- wash out,
- wash up,
- washday,
- washing,
- washing up,
- washout,
- washup,
- water,
- waterlog,
- whitewash,
- wiping up
Words containing 'Wash'
- Wash out,
- Washed,
- Washing,
- wash down,
- wash off,
- wash up,
- washed out,
- washed up,
- Black wash,
- By-wash,
- To wash gold,
- To wash the hands of,
- Wash back,
- Wash ball,
- Wash barrel,
- Wash bottle,
- Wash drawing,
- Wash gilding,
- Wash leather,
- Wash sale,
- Wash stand,
- Wash-off,
- Washed sale,
- Washing bear,
- Washing bottle,
- Washing fluid,
- Washing machine,
- Washing soda,
- Washing stuff,
- Yellow wash,
- color wash,
- colour wash,
- dry wash,
- flat wash,
- machine wash,
- wash away,
- wash room,
- washed-out,
- washed-up,
- washing day,
- washing powder,
- washing-up,
- Wish-wash,
- Wood-wash,
- acid-wash,
- hand-wash,
- machine-wash,
- pressure-wash,
- rain-wash,
- stone-wash,
- wash one's hands,
- wash-and-wear,
- water-wash,
- water-washed,
- window-washing,
- wash-hand basin,
- wash-hand stand,
- bleached faded washed-out washy