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wash [wɒʃ]
n. 洗, 洗涤, 冲洗, 洗的衣服, 冲积物, 洼地
vt. 洗, 洗涤, 洗清, 用水冲洗, 流过, 弄湿, 粉刷, 镀金属薄层于
vi. 洗涤, 洗澡, 被冲蚀, 漂浮
[医] 洗剂, 洗液
wash
[ noun ]
- a thin coat of water-base paint
- the work of cleansing (usually with soap and water)
- the dry bed of an intermittent stream (as at the bottom of a canyon)
- the erosive process of washing away soil or gravel by water (as from a roadway)
- the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller
- a watercolor made by applying a series of monochrome washes one over the other
- garments or white goods that can be cleaned by laundering
- any enterprise in which losses and gains cancel out
<noun.artifact>
<noun.act>
<noun.object>
<noun.process>
from the house they watched the washout of their newly seeded lawn by the water
<noun.phenomenon>
<noun.artifact>
<noun.artifact>
<noun.act>
at the end of the year the accounting department showed that it was a wash
- clean with some chemical process
- cleanse (one's body) with soap and water
- cleanse with a cleaning agent, such as soap, and water
- move by or as if by water
- be capable of being washed
- admit to testing or proof
- separate dirt or gravel from (precious minerals)
- apply a thin coating of paint, metal, etc., to
- remove by the application of water or other liquid and soap or some other cleaning agent
- form by erosion
- make moist
- wash or flow against
- to cleanse (itself or another animal) by licking
<verb.contact> rinse
<verb.body> lave
<verb.contact> launder
Wash the towels, please!
<verb.motion>
The swollen river washed away the footbridge
<verb.stative>
Does this material wash?
<verb.stative>
This silly excuse won't wash in traffic court
<verb.contact>
<verb.contact>
<verb.change> wash away wash off wash out
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
<verb.change>
The river washed a ravine into the mountainside
<verb.change> dampen moisten
The dew moistened the meadows
<verb.change> lap lave
the waves laved the shore
<verb.body>
The cat washes several times a day
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.
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.
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.
Fresh-blown roses washed with dew. --Milton.
[The landscape] washed with a cold, gray mist.
--Longfellow.
3. To waste or abrade by the force of water in motion; as,
heavy rains wash a road or an embankment.
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.
Arise, and be baptized, and wash away thy sins.
--Acts xxii.
16.
The tide will wash you off. --Shak.
5. To cover with a thin or watery coat of color; to tint
lightly and thinly.
6. To overlay with a thin coat of metal; as, steel washed
with silver.
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}.
Wash \Wash\, v. i.
1. To perform the act of ablution.
Wash in Jordan seven times. --2 Kings v.
10.
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.
3. To bear without injury the operation of being washed; as,
some calicoes do not wash. [Colloq.]
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.
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]
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.
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.
These Lincoln washes have devoured them. --Shak.
3. Substances collected and deposited by the action of water;
as, the wash of a sewer, of a river, etc.
The wash of pastures, fields, commons, and roads,
where rain water hath a long time settled.
--Mortimer.
4. Waste liquid, the refuse of food, the collection from
washed dishes, etc., from a kitchen, often used as food
for pigs. --Shak.
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.
6. That with which anything is washed, or wetted, smeared,
tinted, etc., upon the surface. Specifically:
(a) A liquid cosmetic for the complexion.
(b) A liquid dentifrice.
(c) A liquid preparation for the hair; as, a hair wash.
(d) A medical preparation in a liquid form for external
application; a lotion.
(e) (Painting) A thin coat of color, esp. water color.
(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.
8. The flow, swash, or breaking of a body of water, as a
wave; also, the sound of it.
9. Ten strikes, or bushels, of oysters. [Prov. Eng.]
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 ca[~n]on; 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.
Wash \Wash\, a.
1. Washy; weak. [Obs.]
Their bodies of so weak and wash a temper. --Beau. &
Fl.
2. Capable of being washed without injury; washable; as, wash
goods. [Colloq.]
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.
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.
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.
Fresh-blown roses washed with dew. --Milton.
[The landscape] washed with a cold, gray mist.
--Longfellow.
3. To waste or abrade by the force of water in motion; as,
heavy rains wash a road or an embankment.
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.
Arise, and be baptized, and wash away thy sins.
--Acts xxii.
16.
The tide will wash you off. --Shak.
5. To cover with a thin or watery coat of color; to tint
lightly and thinly.
6. To overlay with a thin coat of metal; as, steel washed
with silver.
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}.
Wash \Wash\, v. i.
1. To perform the act of ablution.
Wash in Jordan seven times. --2 Kings v.
10.
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.
3. To bear without injury the operation of being washed; as,
some calicoes do not wash. [Colloq.]
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.
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]
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.
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.
These Lincoln washes have devoured them. --Shak.
3. Substances collected and deposited by the action of water;
as, the wash of a sewer, of a river, etc.
The wash of pastures, fields, commons, and roads,
where rain water hath a long time settled.
--Mortimer.
4. Waste liquid, the refuse of food, the collection from
washed dishes, etc., from a kitchen, often used as food
for pigs. --Shak.
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.
6. That with which anything is washed, or wetted, smeared,
tinted, etc., upon the surface. Specifically:
(a) A liquid cosmetic for the complexion.
(b) A liquid dentifrice.
(c) A liquid preparation for the hair; as, a hair wash.
(d) A medical preparation in a liquid form for external
application; a lotion.
(e) (Painting) A thin coat of color, esp. water color.
(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.
8. The flow, swash, or breaking of a body of water, as a
wave; also, the sound of it.
9. Ten strikes, or bushels, of oysters. [Prov. Eng.]
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 ca[~n]on; 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.
Wash \Wash\, a.
1. Washy; weak. [Obs.]
Their bodies of so weak and wash a temper. --Beau. &
Fl.
2. Capable of being washed without injury; washable; as, wash
goods. [Colloq.]
- Thirteen months later and 3,200 miles away, the Valdez oil spill again will wash over the nation's largest oil company Wednesday as shareholders consider six environmental proposals seeking to make Exxon Corp. more ecologically responsive.
- A rubber hose carries water from the street to a courtyard, where residents squat on a common brick floor in the open to wash their clothes, cooking utensils and themselves.
- At Houminer's hardware store in Jerusalem, manager Avraham Yosha reported a 40 percent increase in the sale of insulating tape, emergency lights, cans for water, as well as portable toilets and wash basins for shelters and sealed rooms.
- Hours earler, male penitents with cloth-covered faces, whipped their backs with wooden sticks tied to a lash in an annual ritual to "wash" their sins or repay God for some miracles.
- "On balance, it might be a wash," Shea said. "I don't understand what (Arbit) is doing.
- Although attempts were made to debate a carbon tax, this got lost in the wash.
- For all their wit, for all their artistic output, these were some pretty messed-up people: Kaufman was neurotic about germs and used to wash his hands 40 times a day; Woollcott was a compulsive overeater; Parker tried to commit suicide five times.
- The company also avoids using old or rusty machines, and workers are told to wash the dirt off the tyres of trucks going out on the roads. The job shortage is serious and getting worse.
- Just as the anti-tax movement came to rest in Washington, the term-limitation movement may some day wash through the halls and offices of Congress.
- Guercino has used ink wash so cleverly that the areas of white paper give the impression of blinding sunshine.
- One former Walton employee, Elizabeth Wahl, says she saw Mr. Walton wash off a pacemaker battery with tap water.
- The room was jammed with high-spending customers gulping bottles of beer to wash down earthworms cooked with golden mushrooms and other specialties.
- The SEC also alleged that Mr. Broumas executed "wash trades" in an attempt to create the appearance of interest in the company's stock.
- In fact, if the offsetting purchase occurs any time within 30 days beforehand or afterward, it is considered a "wash sale" and the loss can't be deducted.
- The deal was that if the students lost, they would wash the board members' cars; if they won they'd get certificates of achievement.
- The Army Corps of Engineers found that discharging water from the Gavins Point Dam on the South Dakota-Nebraska border might wash awy the nests of piping plovers and interior least terns, both federally protected species.
- It took 750 gallons of laboratory-grade, deionized water and 1,800 sheets of blotting paper to wash the hanging in an 18-hour marathon session.
- When the protective forest canopy is burned, nutrients wash away in the heavy rains.
- Thoroughly wash any cutting boards used for meat before putting produce on them.
- 'Now you're getting a wash of enthusiasm for China-related plays.' He expected that B-shares, which were down this year by some 40 per cent at their low point - the index has appreciated by about 10 per cent since June -would continue to strengthen.
- Mrs. Bowling of Oklahoma City, who is the coordinator, is keeping plans secret, but past conventions included workshops on how to wash Barbie's hair and how to care for Barbie's clothes (ironing isn't recommended).
- The new wash tun will take a year to fit, say UD.
- Its reputation with its customers as well as investors will suffer if it is continually forced to wash its dirty linen in public.
- "I remember they brought the bodies there to wash, took them across to the church and laid them across the top of the seats," Mrs. Frum says. "They put a robe over them.
- Call it a wash perhaps _ he marked the event by swimming under three bridges in different parts of the world.
- Even main arteries, on which 40-ton trucks carry 40 tons of logs each to river tugs and barges, wash out regularly.
- They're all being primped and groomed by their owners at the "do-it-yourself dog wash." "We think it's just a new lifestyle for dogs," said John Cole, 58, who just opened the third Little Dipper Do-it-Yourself Pet Care Center in Austin.
- Bailey says his friend told him the company sent home a letter telling his family to wash his clothes separately.
- They also create flavour in the whisky. Like a lot of wine, the wash undergoes two fermentations: first tumultuous (or 'alcoholic' ) and then malolactic.
- The letter also directs Bowhead to wash trucks that become soiled with ore after loading or unloading, and to resweep the route they take through town.
wash
wash (-)wheel
wash a black amoor white
wash a blackamoor white
wash against
wash an Ethiopian white
wash and strain ice foot
wash and wear
wash and wear fabrics
wash and wear finish
wash away
wash basin
wash bead
wash board
wash boarding
wash boiler
wash boring
wash bottle
wash box
wash bulkhead
wash channel
wash coat
wash column
wash deck gear
wash deck hose
wash deck pipe
wash deck pump
wash dissolve
wash down
wash drawing
wash drill
wash drilling
wash drilling (软基...
wash drum
wash fastness
wash filtrate
wash filtrate vacuum ...
wash gravel
wash gun
wash header
wash heat
wash hollander
wash inside out
wash its face
wash leather
wash line
wash liquid
wash load
wash marking
wash material
wash metal
wash mill
wash off
wash oil
wash oil still
wash one's dirty linen
wash one's hands
wash one's hands of
wash oneself
wash out
wash (-)wheel
wash a black amoor white
wash a blackamoor white
wash against
wash an Ethiopian white
wash and strain ice foot
wash and wear
wash and wear fabrics
wash and wear finish
wash away
wash basin
wash bead
wash board
wash boarding
wash boiler
wash boring
wash bottle
wash box
wash bulkhead
wash channel
wash coat
wash column
wash deck gear
wash deck hose
wash deck pipe
wash deck pump
wash dissolve
wash down
wash drawing
wash drill
wash drilling
wash drilling (软基...
wash drum
wash fastness
wash filtrate
wash filtrate vacuum ...
wash gravel
wash gun
wash header
wash heat
wash hollander
wash inside out
wash its face
wash leather
wash line
wash liquid
wash load
wash marking
wash material
wash metal
wash mill
wash off
wash oil
wash oil still
wash one's dirty linen
wash one's hands
wash one's hands of
wash oneself
wash out
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