What is wash?

More definitions of "wash":

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• (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"

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• (noun): The erosive process of washing away soil or gravel by water (as from a roadway).
  Synonyms: washout

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

Famous quotes containing the word wash:

“When lovely woman stoops to folly,
And finds too late that men betray,
What charm can soothe her melancholy,
What art can wash her guilt away?

The only art her guilt to cover,
To hide her shame from every eye,
To give repentance to her lover,
And wring his bosom—is to die.”
—Oliver Goldsmith (1730?–1774)

“You will trail across the rocks
and wash them with your salt,
you will curl between sand-hills
you will thunder along the cliff
break retreat get fresh strength
gather and pour weight upon the beach.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

“What if this cursed hand
Were thicker than itself with brother’s blood,
Is there not rain enough in the sweet heavens
To wash it white as snow?”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)