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Washing definition

wŏshĭng, wôshĭng
The liquid used to wash something.
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The act or process of one that washes.
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Articles washed or intended to be washed at one time.

The week's washing.

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The residue after an ore or other material has been washed.
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The act of a person or thing that washes; a cleaning, flushing, etc. in water or other liquid.
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Clothes or other things washed or to be washed, esp. at one time.
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Matter obtained or removed by washing.
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A thin coating, as of metal, put on in liquid form.
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(finance) The act of making a wash sale.
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(uncountable) The action of the verb to wash.
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(uncountable, chiefly UK, New Zealand) Clothing, bed linen or soft furnishings that have been, are currently being, or are to be washed; laundry.
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(countable, often in the plural) The residue after an ore, etc, has been washed.
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The liquid used to wash an ore.
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Present participle of wash.
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Other Word Forms

Noun

Singular:
washing
Plural:
washings

Washing Sentence Examples

  • This washing is a most important part of the process.

  • By the time Alex arrived for breakfast, she had it on the table and was washing the frying pan in the sink.

  • The Key of Truth regards the water as a washing of the body, and sees in the rite no opus operatum, but an essentially spiritual rite in which "the king releases certain rulers a from the prison of sin, the Son calls them to himself and comforts them with great words, and the Holy Spirit of the king forthwith comes and crowns them, and dwells in them for ever."

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