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:

    “Ye say they all have passed away,
    That noble race and brave;
    That their light canoes have vanished
    From off the crested wave;
    That, mid the forests where they roamed,
    There rings no hunters’ shout;
    But their name is on your waters,
    Ye may not wash it out.”
    —Lydia Huntley Sigourney (1791–1865)

    “... 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)

    “It is not a man’s duty, as a matter of course, to devote himself to the eradication of any, even the most enormous, wrong; he may still properly have other concerns to engage him; but it is his duty, at least, to wash his hands of it, and, if he gives it no thought longer, not to give it practically his support.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)