English Dictionary

wash

/wɒʃ/

noun

The process or an instance of washing or being washed by water or other liquid. / A liquid used for washing. / A lotion or other liquid with medicinal or hygienic properties.

I need to do the wash today.

意味（1）

The process or an instance of washing or being washed by water or other liquid.

I'm going to have a quick wash before coming to bed.

意味（2）

A liquid used for washing.

意味（3）

A lotion or other liquid with medicinal or hygienic properties.

mouth wash

意味（4）

The quantity of clothes washed at a time.

There's a lot in that wash: maybe you should split it into two piles.

意味（5）

(art) A smooth and translucent painting created using a paintbrush holding a large amount of solvent and a small amount of paint.

意味（6）

The breaking of waves on the shore; the onwards rush of shallow water towards a beach.

I could hear the wash of the wave.

意味（7）

The bow wave or wake of a moving ship, or the vortex from its screws.

The ship left a big wash

意味（8）

The turbulence left in the air by a moving airplane.

意味（9）

The backward current or disturbed water caused by the action of oars, or of a steamer's screw or paddles, etc.

意味（10）

(nautical) The blade of an oar.

意味（11）

Ground washed away to the sea or a river.

The wash of pastures, fields, commons, and roads, […] where rain water hath a long time settled.

意味（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.

These Lincoln washes have devoured them.

意味（13）

A shallow body of water.

意味（14）

In arid and semi-arid regions, the normally dry bed of an intermittent or ephemeral stream; an arroyo or wadi.

In some desert-wash systems (which have been termed “xero-riparian”)

意味（15）

A situation in which losses and gains or advantages and disadvantages are equivalent; a situation in which there is no net change.

I knew that for every vote I cast for, say, the Republicans, some kid at a polling place nearby was casting his votes for the Democrats, so it was probably a wash or close to it.

意味（16）

(finance, 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.

意味（17）

Waste liquid, the refuse of food, the collection from washed dishes, etc., from a kitchen, often used as food for pigs; pigwash.

意味（18）

In distilling, the fermented wort before the spirit is extracted.

意味（19）

A mixture of dunder, molasses, water, and scummings, used in the West Indies for distillation.

In order to augment the vinosity of the wash, many substances are recommended by Dr. Shaw, such as tartar, nitre, common salt, and the vegetable or mineral acids.

意味（20）

A thin coat of paint or metal laid on anything for beauty or preservation.

意味（21）

Ten strikes, or bushels, of oysters.

意味（22）

(architecture) 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.

a carriage wash in a stable

意味（23）

(television) A lighting effect that fills a scene with a chosen colour.

意味（24）

(stagecraft) A lighting fixture that can cast a wide beam of light to evenly fill an area with light, as opposed to a spotlight.