Overview of noun wash

The noun wash has 8 senses

• wash -- (a thin coat of water-base paint)


• wash, washing, lavation -- (the work of cleansing (usually with soap and water))


• wash, dry wash -- (the dry bed of an intermittent stream (as at the bottom of a canyon))


• washout, wash -- (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")


• slipstream, airstream, race, backwash, wash -- (the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller)


• wash, wash drawing -- (a watercolor made by applying a series of monochrome washes one over the other)


• laundry, wash, washing, washables -- (garments or white goods that can be cleaned by laundering)


• wash -- (any enterprise in which losses and gains cancel out; "at the end of the year the accounting department showed that it was a wash")

Overview of verb wash

The verb wash has 13 senses

• wash, rinse -- (clean with some chemical process)


• wash, lave -- (cleanse (one's body) with soap and water)


• wash, launder -- (cleanse with a cleaning agent, such as soap, and water; "Wash the towels, please!")


• wash -- (move by or as if by water; "The swollen river washed away the footbridge")


• wash -- (be capable of being washed; "Does this material wash?")


• wash -- (admit to testing or proof; "This silly excuse won't wash in traffic court")


• wash -- (separate dirt or gravel from (precious minerals))


• wash -- (apply a thin coating of paint, metal, etc., to)


• wash, wash out, wash off, wash away -- (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")


• wash -- (form by erosion; "The river washed a ravine into the mountainside")


• moisten, wash, dampen -- (make moist; "The dew moistened the meadows")


• lave, lap, wash -- (wash or flow against; "the waves laved the shore")


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