What is wash?

More definitions of "wash":

• (noun): The dry bed of an intermittent stream (as at the bottom of a canyon).
  Synonyms: dry wash

• (noun): The work of cleansing (usually with soap and water).
  Synonyms: washing, lavation

• (noun): A thin coat of water-base paint.

• (verb): Be capable of being washed.
  Example: "Does this material wash?"

• (noun): Garments or white goods that can be cleaned by laundering.
  Synonyms: laundry, washing, washables

• (verb): To cleanse (itself or another animal) by licking.
  Example: "The cat washes several times a day"

• (verb): Clean with some chemical process.
  Synonyms: rinse

• (verb): Make moist.
  Synonyms: moisten, dampen

• (noun): Any enterprise in which losses and gains cancel out.
  Example: "At the end of the year the accounting department showed that it was a wash"

• (verb): Cleanse with a cleaning agent, such as soap, and water.
  Example: "Wash the towels, please!"
  Synonyms: launder

• (verb): Wash or flow against.
  Synonyms: lave, lap

• (verb): Remove by the application of water or other liquid and soap or some other cleaning agent.
  Example: "Can you wash away the spots on the windows?"; "he managed to wash out the stains"
  Synonyms: wash out, wash off, wash away

• (verb): Apply a thin coating of paint, metal, etc., to.

• (noun): The flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller.
  Synonyms: slipstream, airstream, race, backwash

• (verb): Separate dirt or gravel from (precious minerals).

• (verb): Move by or as if by water.
  Example: "The swollen river washed away the footbridge"

• (noun): A watercolor made by applying a series of monochrome washes one over the other.
  Synonyms: wash drawing

• (verb): Form by erosion.
  Example: "The river washed a ravine into the mountainside"

• (verb): Cleanse (one's body) with soap and water.
  Synonyms: lave

• (verb): Admit to testing or proof.
  Example: "This silly excuse won't wash in traffic court"

Famous quotes containing the word wash:

“... a friend told me that she had read of a woman who had knitted a wash rag for President Wilson. She was eighty years old and her friends thought it remarkable that she could knit a wash rag! I thought that if a woman of eighty could knit a wash rage for a Democratic President it behooved one of ninety-six to make something more than a wash rag for a Republican President.”
—Maria D. Brown (1827–1927)

“by noon
the whole city in all its corruption,
all its shed blood the monsoon cannot wash away,
has become a temple,
fragile, insolent, absolute.”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)

“Papa died in the gas chamber,
slipping blue as an undressed minnow,
gulping in the shower to wash the Jew off him.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)