wash

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I was 15 and sucked at washing dishes.

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Quick take

a thin coat of water-base paint

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of wash gathered in one view.

noun

a thin coat of water-base paint

noun

the work of cleansing (usually with soap and water)

noun

the dry bed of an intermittent stream (as at the bottom of a canyon)

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for wash.

noun

a thin coat of water-base paint

noun

the work of cleansing (usually with soap and water)

noun

the dry bed of an intermittent stream (as at the bottom of a canyon)

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"

noun

the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller

See also: slipstream, airstream, race, backwash

noun

a watercolor made by applying a series of monochrome washes one over the other

noun

garments or white goods that can be cleaned by laundering

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

verb

cleanse (one's body) with soap and water

verb

cleanse with a cleaning agent, such as soap, and water; "Wash the towels, please!"

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"

verb

form by erosion; "The river washed a ravine into the mountainside"

verb

make moist; "The dew moistened the meadows"

verb

wash or flow against; "the waves laved the shore"

verb

to cleanse (itself or another animal) by licking; "The cat washes several times a day"

Example sentences

I was 15 and sucked at washing dishes.

I took 3 months to travel in Europe to wash off the filth.

Just because you are at home does not mean "can you just put on a wash".

My dishwasher has a single wheel and a switch.

Even with a 10k bump in pay and full benefits, it was a wash.

I hate the dishes that I have to wash every day after I use them.

Dude was so fast at washing dishes I wanted to be exactly like him.

What Semmelweis did differently was to use lime to wash hands.

If you have ever washed a car in the cold, you know that you need more than a fucking soap sprayer and a sponge.

You have to compete with every 13 year old kid who wants to buy a new playstation game and will wash cars for $5.

".Edit:And here I was feeling bummed about wasting $600 on car washing equipment.

You will also have to compete with every other joe who will basically wash a car for a couple of bucks.

There is a lot of equipment needed to correctly wash a car in diverse weather conditions.

I'm seeing a lot of "he got what he deserved" and "he's gonna have to wash dishes, nobody will hire him" kinds of comments here.

When I lived in New York, literally 100% of my local friends used wash-and-fold and owned nothing to take care of clothing.

Cherry tried to circumvent that by having sub-contractors, which in other words means giving some random joe $5 to wash some car.

As a former dishwasher and line cook at the local steak house when I was growing up, I relate almost exactly what this guy said.

"Anyway, I know this is going to be an unpopular opinion here, so I shall now let the sea of downvotes wash over me.

After using the toilet, do you wash your hands, or just wipe them?You've just demonstrated why washing toilets are superior.

We tried to combat this by changing out of our clothes just inside the front door and putting them straight into the wash, but it never really went away.

Clearly some of these are life choices, and important ones which almost certainly make sense to you, but one thing;No dishwasher?I don't really understand this.

Over at Tencent they very often do whatever it takes to be first to market, and if needed to be, refactor everything 6 months down the road, and rinse wash repeat.

In the same way that someone with severe OCD will do things like wash their hands until the skin comes off, these people are neurotically compelled to dominate others even if doing so actually harms them.

A surgeon must take the patient to the operating room urgently, make a slash down the middle of the abdomen, wash out all the bilious and infected fluid, find the hole in the duodenum, and repair it.

It's a classic, recognizable typeface...but stare at that for a moment, think back to how it didn't really make sense to announce free puppies or a car wash in deconstructed type, and let the understanding wash over you.

Contrary to the conventional wisdom, which suggests that doctors in the 1840s were sticking horse-manure-covered hands into the exposed wounds of patients, handwashing was apparently already a norm.