wash

Significat (anglès)

Verb

1. To clean with water.
2. To move or erode by the force of water in motion.
3. To separate valuable material (such as gold) from worthless material by the action of flowing water.
4. To clean oneself with water.
5. To cover with water or any liquid; to wet; to fall on and moisten.
6. To move with a lapping or swashing sound; to lap or splash.
7. To be eroded or carried away by the action of water.
8. To be cogent, convincing; to withstand critique.
9. To bear without injury the operation of being washed.
10. 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.
11. To cover with a thin or watery coat of colour; to tint lightly and thinly.
12. To overlay with a thin coat of metal.
13. To cause dephosphorization of (molten pig iron) by adding substances containing iron oxide, and sometimes manganese oxide.
14. To pass (a gas or gaseous mixture) through or over a liquid for the purpose of purifying it, especially by removing soluble constituents.

Noun

1. The process or an instance of washing or being washed by water or other liquid.
2. A liquid used for washing.
3. A lotion or other liquid with medicinal or hygienic properties.
4. The quantity of clothes washed at a time.
5. A smooth and translucent painting created using a paintbrush holding a large amount of solvent and a small amount of paint.
6. The breaking of waves on the shore; the onwards rush of shallow water towards a beach.
7. The bow wave, wake, or vortex of an object moving in a fluid, in particular:
8. The bow wave, wake, or vortex of an object moving in a fluid, in particular:
9. The bow wave, wake, or vortex of an object moving in a fluid, in particular:
10. The blade of an oar.
11. Ground washed away to the sea or a river.
12. A piece of ground washed by the action of water, or sometimes covered and sometimes left dry; the shallowest part of a river, or arm of the sea; also, a bog; a marsh.
13. A shallow body of water.
14. In arid and semi-arid regions, the normally dry bed of an intermittent or ephemeral stream; an arroyo or wadi.
15. A situation in which losses and gains or advantages and disadvantages are equivalent; a situation in which there is no net change.
16. (slang) A fictitious kind of sale of stock or other securities between parties of one interest, or by a broker who is both buyer and seller, and who minds his own interest rather than that of his clients.
17. Waste liquid, the refuse of food, the collection from washed dishes, etc., from a kitchen, often used as food for pigs; pigwash.
18. In distilling, the fermented wort before the spirit is extracted.
19. A mixture of dunder, molasses, water, and scummings, used in the West Indies for distillation.
20. A thin coat of paint or metal laid on anything for beauty or preservation.
21. Ten strikes, or bushels, of oysters.
22. 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.
23. A lighting effect that fills a scene with a chosen colour.
24. A lighting fixture that can cast a wide beam of light to evenly fill an area with light, as opposed to a spotlight.

Sinònims

clean

bathe

cleanse

rinse

washing

laundry

scrub

lave

launder

purify

take a bath

scour

bath

🛀

rub

dampen

wash up

wash oneself

wash off

cleansing

wipe

moisten

water

🚰

shampoo

brush

shower

🚿

rinse off

washout

airstream

lavation

bank

🏦

laundering

washables

whiten

wet

bleach

wash out

clear

wash drawing

wash away

swab

leach

surge

slipstream

shoal

dry wash

rinsing

backwash

race

lotion

watercolor

boil

coat

🧥

douche

flush

gargle

humidify

lap

mop

polish

🇵🇱

pour

ripple

sluice

soak

splash

wash down

watercolour

water-colour

wash clean

wash hands

water-color

shallow place

do laundry

be washed

wash head

pan

pan off

pan out

😡

bathe oneself

do beauty treatment

purge

get dressed

generally

rasp

ravine

rectify

refine

refuse

for the most part

fettle

rinse out

erosion

do one’s washing

riverbed

eroding

rub up

sandbank

sanitize

scald

scavenge

enema

elutriation

shallow

shallow water

dull

sharpen

drizzle

drifting

sieve

sift

drift

slops

gush down

smear

wash dishes

sop

wash one’s face

sprinkle

submerge

suds

suffice

douse

do

sweep

swill

swim

🏊

swob

ditch

unblock

wake

washable

distill

slush around

washes

coating

clean up

clean out

cleaning

wash over

bog

ablution

medicinal lotion

drift current

wave

👋

wavelet

blanch

bedew

whitewash

baptize

wipe off

brush teeth

dish-water

dress out

eating away

make pure

rush down

scrub up

soak in

baptise

wind drift

wash feet

(to) wash up

alluvium

wash with water

wish-wash

adjust

deterge

development

abrade

water scrubbing

irrigate

immerse

hush

lavage

hone

gurgle

groom

level

lighten

grind

lustrate

make clean

moil

get ready

moisturise

wind-driven current

paint

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/wɒʃ/

Etimologia (anglès)

From Middle English wasshen, waschen, weschen, from Old English wasċan, from Proto-West Germanic *waskan, from Proto-Germanic *waskaną, *watskaną (“to wash, get wet”), from Proto-Indo-European *wed- (“wet; water”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian waaske (“to wash”), West Frisian waskje (“to wash”), Dutch wassen, wasschen (“to wash”), Low German waschen (“to wash”), German waschen (“to wash”), Danish vaske (“to wash”), Norwegian Bokmål vaske (“to wash”), Swedish vaska (“to wash”), Icelandic vaska (“to wash”).