wash, n.
(washes)
freq. cnt. 11
(washes)
freq. cnt. 11
a thin coat of water-base paint
<noun.artifact> freq. cnt.: 6 freq. cnt.: 6
wash
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derivationally related form
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hypernym
the work of cleansing (usually with soap and water)
<noun.act> freq. cnt.: 17 freq. cnt.: 14 freq. cnt.: 3
lavation wash washing
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washup, bathing
ablution
dishwashing, washup
washing-up
window-washing
rinse
soak, soaking
laundering
hypernym
part meronym
the dry bed of an intermittent stream (as at the bottom of a canyon)
<noun.object> freq. cnt.: 2 freq. cnt.: 2
dry wash wash
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domain of synset (region)
hypernym
any enterprise in which losses and gains cancel out
<noun.act>
wash
sample sentences
"at the end of the year the accounting department showed that it was a wash"
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hypernym
domain of synset (usage)
garments or white goods that can be cleaned by laundering
<noun.artifact> freq. cnt.: 1 freq. cnt.: 1
laundry wash washables washing
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a watercolor made by applying a series of monochrome washes one over the other
<noun.artifact>
wash wash drawing
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the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller
<noun.phenomenon>
airstream backwash race slipstream wash
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the erosive process of washing away soil or gravel by water (as from a roadway)
<noun.process>
wash washout
sample sentences
"from the house they watched the washout of their newly seeded lawn by the water"
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