Wash

Wash may refer to:

  • Arroyo (creek), also called a wash, a dry creek bed or gulch that temporarily fills with water after a heavy rain
  • WASH, a water, sanitation and hygiene advocacy campaign initiated by the Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council
  • WASH-FM, a Clear Channel Communications radio station
  • Wash (distilling), the liquid produced by the fermentation step in the production of distilled beverages
  • Wash (painting), a light covering of diluted paint on a painting
  • Lime wash or whitewash, a low-cost industrial paint
  • "Wash" (Prison Break episode)
  • Wash, California, former name of Clio, California
  • The Wash, the square-mouthed estuary on the northwest margin of East Anglia in England
  • The Wash (film), a hip-hop styled film
  • The Wash (1985 film), by Philip Kan Gotanda, based on his play The Wash
  • "Wash" (song), a song by Pearl Jam
  • "Wash.", A song by Bon Iver from the album Bon Iver, Bon Iver
  • Wash (Firefly), a character on Firefly

Famous quotes containing the word wash:

    “I have since written what no tide
    Shall ever wash away, what men
    Unborn shall read o’er ocean wide
    And find Ianthe’s name agen.”
    —Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864)

    “Have you not budged an inch, then? Such is the daily news. Its facts appear to float in the atmosphere.... We should wash ourselves clean of such news. Of what consequence, though our planet explode, if there is no character involved in the explosion? In health we have not the least curiosity about such events. We do not live for idle amusement. I would not run round a corner to see the world blow up.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “You haf slafed your life away in de bosses’ mills and your fadhers before you and your kids after you yet. Vat is a man to do with seventeen-fifty a week? His wife must work nights to make another ten, must vork nights and cook and wash in day an’ vatfor? So that the bosses can get rich an’ the stockholders and bondholders. It is too much... ve stood it before because ve vere not organized. Now we have union... We must all stand together for union.”
    —John Dos Passos (1896–1970)