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washing

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Noun
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wash=ing

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun washing has 2 senses

CIDE DICTIONARY

washingn. 
  •  The act of one who washes; the act of cleansing with water; ablution.  [1913 Webster]
  •  The clothes washed, esp. at one time; a wash.  [1913 Webster]
  •  Gold dust procured by washing; also, a place where this is done; a washery.  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
  •  A thin covering or coat; as, a washing of silver.  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
  •  The operation of simultaneously buying and selling the same stock for the purpose of manipulating the market. The transaction is fictitious, and is prohibited by stock-exchange rules.  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
  •  The covering of a piece with an infusible powder, which prevents it from sticking to its supports, while receiving the glaze.  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Washing bear (Zoöl.), the raccoon. -- Washing bottle (Chem.), a bottle fitted with glass tubes passing through the cork, so that on blowing into one of the tubes a stream of water issuing from the other may be directed upon anything to be washed or rinsed, as a precipitate upon a filter, etc. -- Washing fluid, a liquid used as a cleanser, and consisting usually of alkaline salts resembling soaps in their action. -- Washing machine, a machine for washing; specifically, a machine for washing clothes. -- Washing soda. (Chem.) See Sodium carbonate, under Sodium. -- Washing stuff, any earthy deposit containing gold enough to pay for washing it; -- so called among gold miners.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

washing, n. a quantity of clothes for washing or just washed.

Idiom
washing-machine a machine for washing clothes and linen etc. washing-powder powder of soap or detergent for washing clothes. washing-soda sodium carbonate, used dissolved in water for washing and cleaning. washing-up Brit.
1 the process of washing dishes etc. after use.
2 used dishes etc. for washing.

THESAURUS

washing

ablution, bear raid, bull raid, cleaning out, corner, corner in, douche, douching, elution, elutriation, enema, flush, flushing, flushing out, irrigation, lap, lapping, lathering, laundering, laundry, lavabo, lavage, lavation, laving, manipulation, monopoly, mopping, mopping up, plash, raid, rigging, rinse, rinsing, scouring, scrub, scrubbing, scrubbing up, shampoo, slosh, soaping, splash, sponge, sponging, swabbing, swash, tubbing, wash, wash sale, washday, washing up, washout, washup, wiping up

ROGET THESAURUS

washing

Water

N water, serum, serosity, lymph, rheum, diluent, agua, aqua, pani, dilution, maceration, lotion, washing, immersion, humectation, infiltration, spargefaction, affusion, irrigation, douche, balneation, bath, deluge, high water, flood tide, watery, aqueous, aquatic, hydrous, lymphatic, balneal, diluent, drenching, diluted, weak, wet, the waters are out.

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