Definitions for "wash"
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.
To cover with a thin or watery coat of color; to tint lightly and thinly.
To overlay with a thin coat of metal; as, steel washed with silver.
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.
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.
To waste or abrade by the force of water in motion; as, heavy rains wash a road or an embankment.
That with which anything is washed, or wetted, smeared, tinted, etc., upon the surface.
An alluvial cone formed by a stream at the base of a mountain.
The dry bed of an intermittent stream, sometimes at the bottom of a cañon; as, the Amargosa wash, Diamond wash; -- called also dry wash.
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.
Substances collected and deposited by the action of water; as, the wash of a sewer, of a river, etc.
form by erosion; "The river washed a ravine into the mountainside"
The shuffle.
To Shuffle.
A thorough shuffling technique whereby the shuffler spreads the cards face down over a large area and scrambles them. This is also known as a scramble.
Keywords:  blot, blitzing, checker, hit, cube
blitzing technique that involves breaking a higher home board point in order to hit a blot on a lower home board point.
1. To switch points and hit an opposing checker. See switch points. 2. To settle a cube in a money game for zero points. He had a double shot to hit the blot for the win, so they agreed to wash the 16 cube.
Keywords:  won't, alibi, silly, excuse, proven
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.
admit to testing or proof; "This silly excuse won't wash in traffic court"
Keywords:  shore, laved, rush, sweeping, waves
wash or flow against; "the waves laved the shore"
The rush or sweeping of waves on a bank, shore or against a vessel.
a green strip in winter, but pale lime in summer that nonetheless abounds with creatures for which I m grateful
Keywords:  namesake, george, nickname
nickname for Washington (often namesake of George Washington)
Keywords:  meadows, moistened, dew, moist
make moist; "The dew moistened the meadows"
"Wash" is the fortieth episode of the American television series Prison Break and is the eighteenth episode of its second season. The episode is expected to air on February 26, 2007.
Keywords:  bushels, oysters, strikes, ten
Ten strikes, or bushels, of oysters.
Keywords:  gain, cancel, situation, loss, equal
A situation in which two actions cancel each other out. An example is a gain and a loss of the same size.
an action or situation in which the gains and losses are equal, or closely compensate each other.
any enterprise in which losses and gains cancel out; "at the end of the year the accounting department showed that it was a wash"
Keywords:  calicoes, injury, capable, bear, goods
To bear without injury the operation of being washed; as, some calicoes do not wash.
Capable of being washed without injury; washable; as, wash goods.
As in, to 'wash' your bicycle. A difficult concept for many owners to master, washing can be put off almost indefinitely. Some prefer to just buy a new bike.
Keywords:  jean, variant, resin, dye, color
Variant of Background with a gradual change from one color to another across the picture.
A highly fluid application of color.
(n.): The color and texture produced by the finishing process of washing the jean; creates varying results, such as an aged appearance or enhanced softness and can include applying colored dye and resin.
garments or white goods that can be cleaned by laundering
clean with some chemical process
Keywords:  mud, football, twice, beneath, explains
An activity that, if men had their way, would only be done once or twice a month. Down beneath it all, most men would much rather cover themselves in mud and walk around in skins. Which explains the popularity of football.
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A requirement that a participant transfer to or from a competing fund to a GIC not be made directly but be "washed " through an equity fund for a period that is typically three months or longer.
the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller
a basic way to shade a figure as it emphasizes shadows
Keywords:  weak
Washy; weak.
Keywords:  erosion, rough, sand, casting, corded
A casting defect resulting from erosion of sand by metal flowing over the mold or corded surfaces. They appear as rough spots and excess metal on the casting surface. Also call cuts. See Cut, Defect.
the disturbance of the air left behind in the wake of a moving airplane or one of its parts.
Keywords:  debris, loose, describe, term
a term used to describe loose debris.
Keywords:  tea, cooled, external, application
an external application of cooled tea
Keywords:  push, score, deal, team, slang
(or Washout)(slang) in team-of-four play, a deal with no net score; push.
Keywords:  station, radio, soft, clear, rock
WASH is a Clear Channel Communications radio station located at 97.1 FM in Washington, D.C.. Known on-air as "Wash-FM", the station has a soft rock format.
Keywords:  colour, see
See Colour Wash.
Keywords:  capable, material
be capable of being washed; "Does this material wash?"
Keywords:  hair, face
To use washes, as for the face or hair.