English words for 'Dishwashing'
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verb
- wash dishes
- be carried somewhere by water or as if by water
- wash one's face and hands
- carry somewhere (of water or current or waves)
- wear out completely
- (intransitive) To be carried by water to land.
- (British, ambitransitive) To clean the utensils, dishes etc. used in preparing and eating a meal.
- (US, intransitive) To wash one's hands or face, often around mealtimes.
- (transitive, of water) To carry (an object) to land.
- (intransitive, by extension) To arrive in a place; to end up somewhere.
- (slang, transitive, African-American Vernacular) To beat up (someone).
noun
- the act of washing dishes
- the act of washing yourself (or another person)
- (informal) Something or somebody that is washed up; a has-been.
- The act by which something is washed.
- (military, slang) A meeting to gauge the success or failure of an operation or war game.
- (UK politics, slang) The period prior to dissolution of parliament, in which any remaining bills are quickly pushed through or else abandoned.
noun
- Something that washes; especially an appliance such as a washing machine or dishwasher.
- a home appliance for washing clothes and linens automatically
- A person who washes their hands compulsively, as a symptom of obsessive-compulsive disorder.
- A person who washes (especially clothes) for a living; a washerman or washerwoman.
- A flat piece of material, often of metal and often an annulus, placed beneath a nut or at some joint, to distribute pressure, alleviate friction, provide directionally differentiated friction (e.g. making the nut turn counter-clockwise only with difficulty), or prevent leakage.
- A face cloth.
- seal consisting of a flat disk placed to prevent leakage
- someone who washes things for a living
verb
noun
- A sink in a kitchen used for washing crockery, cutlery, utensils, food, etc., and disposing of waste.
- (also attributive) A miscellaneous item or a miscellany, especially exemplifying an indiscriminate profusion.
- (metonymic) In chained or tied to the kitchen sink, etc.: domestic chores or housework, especially when regarded as menial and tedious.
- a sink in a kitchen
adj
- (by extension, drama, fiction, film, television, originally derogatory) Of or pertaining to a mid-20th-century (especially 1950s–1960s) genre of drama, fiction, etc., in Britain depicting the harsh lives of working-class people; also, of or pertaining to a film, novel, play, etc., of this genre.
- (painting) Of or pertaining to a mid-20th-century realist style of painting in Britain characterized by scenes of dull or untidy domestic interiors such as kitchens in the homes of urban working-class people; also, of or pertaining to an artist or group of artists painting in this style.
verb
- (intransitive) To raise unrelated complaints and other matters during an argument.
- To raise to (someone) unrelated complaints and other matters during an argument.
- To make (something) overly complicated or elaborate; to overcomplicate, to overwork.
- (business) To release (a large amount of information about the poor financial results of a company) in one go, in the hope that there will be less impact.
noun
noun
- A kitchen spatula.
- (theater) A small flat used to support a larger one.
- (informal, US) Television remote control, clicker.
- In marine mammals such as whales (or other aquatic animals such as sea turtles), a wide, flat limb adapted for swimming.
- (finance, art) Someone who flips, in the sense of buying a house or other asset and selling it quickly for profit.
- (cricket) A type of ball bowled by a leg spin bowler, which spins backwards and skids off the pitch with a low bounce.
- Someone who flips in any other sense, for example throwing a coin.
- A wide, flat, paddle-like rubber covering for the foot, used in swimming.
- (dentistry) A kind of false tooth, usually temporary.
- A flat lever in a pinball machine, triggered by the player to strike the ball and keep it in play.
- the flat broad limb of aquatic animals specialized for swimming
- a shoe for swimming; the paddle-like front is an aid in swimming (especially underwater)
verb
noun
- A washing.
- The act or process of soaking or boiling cloth in an alkaline liquid in the operation of bleaching.
- The act of a quadruped kicking both hind legs upward at once.
- The liquid used in this process.
- (forestry) The process of cutting a felled and delimbed tree into logs.
- The process of breaking up or pulverizing ores.
verb
noun
- A laundering; a washing.
- (slang, American football) A penalty flag.
- That which needs to be, is being, or has been laundered.
- A place or room where laundering is done - including, by extension, other forms of laundering than clothes washing.
- A business whose primary purpose is to conceal the origins of money received illegally.
- garments or white goods that can be cleaned by laundering
- workplace where clothes are washed and ironed
noun
- A row of modular kitchen units and a countertop, consisting of cabinets and appliances below (dishwasher) and next to (stove/cooker) a countertop.
- A column of people one behind another, whether "single file" or in a grid pattern.
- A roll or list.
- (military) A small detachment of soldiers.
- A tool consisting of a strip or rod of hardened and coarse metal, used for removing sharp edges, shaping, and cutting, especially through metal; usually a hand tool.
- A collection of papers collated and archived together.
- (computing) An aggregation of data on a storage device, identified by a name.
- A course of thought; a thread of narration.
- (chess) One of the eight vertical lines of squares on a chessboard (i.e., those identified by a letter).
- (Canada, US) Clipping of file cabinet.
- a line of persons or things ranged one behind the other
- a steel hand tool with small sharp teeth on some or all of its surfaces; used for smoothing wood or metal
- a set of related records (either written or electronic) kept together
- office furniture consisting of a container for keeping papers in order
verb
- (transitive) To commit (official papers) to some office.
- (transitive) To smooth, grind, or cut with a file.
- (transitive) To place in an archive in a logical place and order.
- (transitive) To store a file (aggregation of data) on a storage medium such as a disc or another computer.
- (intransitive) To move in a file.
- To corrupt.
- (transitive) (of a journalist) To submit (an article) to a newspaper or similar publication.
- (intransitive, with for, chiefly law) To submit a formal request to some office.
- proceed in line
- smooth with a file
- place in a container for keeping records
- record in a public office or in a court of law
- file a formal charge against
noun
- An appliance designed to wash out the inside of something.
- (mining) A place in a mine where ore has been washed away by a flow of water.
- A total failure; a disappointment.
- (aeronautics) The aerodynamic effect of a small twist in the shape of an aircraft wing.
- A sporting fixture or other event that cannot be completed because of rain.
- (British, air force slang) A destroyed aeroplane.
- (also biology) The cleaning of matter from a physiological system using a fluid; also, the fluid used for such cleaning; or the matter cleaned out from the system.
- (originally US, rail transport, road transport) A breach in a railway or road caused by flooding.
- A period between clinical treatments in which any medication delivered as the first treatment is allowed to be eliminated from a person's body before the second treatment begins.
- An unsuccessful person.
- The erosion of a relatively soft surface by a sudden gush of water; also, a channel produced by this action.
- (meteorology) The action whereby falling rainwater cleans particles from the air.
- An overwhelming victory; a landslide.
- (British, originally air force slang) A trainee who drops out of a training programme.
- An act of washing or cleaning the inside of something.
- someone who is unsuccessful
- the erosive process of washing away soil or gravel by water (as from a roadway)
- the channel or break produced by erosion of relatively soft soil by water
noun
- A programme on a washing machine, dishwasher, or other such device.
- An interval of space or time in which one set of events or phenomena is completed.
- An age; a long period of time.
- A pedal-powered vehicle, such as a unicycle, bicycle, or tricycle, or a motorized vehicle that has either two or three wheels.
- A process that returns to its beginning and then repeats itself in the same sequence.
- A complete rotation of anything.
- A series of poems, songs or other works of art, typically longer than a trilogy.
- (topology, algebraic topology) A chain whose boundary is zero.
- (graph theory) A closed walk or path, with or without repeated vertices allowed.
- (botany) One entire round in a circle or a spire.
- (weaponry) A discharge of a taser.
- (aviation) One take-off and landing of an aircraft, referring to a pressurisation cycle which places stresses on the fuselage.
- (usually plural) A hertz; cycle per second.
- An orderly list for a given time; a calendar.
- (sports) A scheduled period of time of weeks or months wherein a performance-enhancing substance or, by extension, supplement is applied, to be followed by another one where it is not or the dosage is lower.
- (baseball) A single, a double, a triple, and a home run hit by the same player in the same game.
- The members of the sequence formed by such a process.
- An imaginary circle or orbit in the heavens; one of the celestial spheres.
- (specifically and now usually) A bicycle.
- a wheeled vehicle that has two wheels and is moved by foot pedals
- a periodically repeated sequence of events
- the unit of frequency; one hertz has a periodic interval of one second (named for Heinrich Rudolph Hertz)
- a series of poems or songs on the same theme
- a single complete execution of a periodically repeated phenomenon
- an interval during which a recurring sequence of events occurs
verb
- (electronics) To turn power off and back on
- To ride a bicycle or other cycle.
- To go through a cycle or to put through a cycle.
- (ice hockey) To maintain a team's possession of the puck in the offensive zone by handling and passing the puck in a loop from the boards near the goal up the side boards and passing to back to the boards near the goal
- cause to go through a recurring sequence
- ride a motorcycle
- ride a bicycle
- recur in repeating sequences
- pass through a cycle
noun
- a kitchen appliance for disposing of garbage
- a method of tending to or managing the affairs of some group of people (especially the group's business affairs)
- the act or means of getting rid of something
- the power to use something or someone
- (uncountable) The power to use something or someone.
- (countable) A garbage disposal
- (countable, Australian rules football) A kick or a handball of the ball during a game.
- (Internet slang, paraphilia, furry fandom) A sexual paraphilia, as in art, fiction, and role-playing, that involves a character consuming and digesting another and disposing their remains as bodily fluids, typically as via ejaculation or defecation.
- (countable) A disposition; an arrangement, categorization, or classification of things.
verb
- To clean thoroughly, particularly with a dishcloth or rag.
- (US, transitive, slang, figurative) To defeat (an opponent) thoroughly; trounce.
- (British, Australian, intransitive) To dry utensils, dishes etc. that have been washed.
- To completely remove spilled liquid or solids, typically by hand using a dishcloth.
- to wash or wipe with or as if with a mop
noun
- the act of washing dishes
- the act of washing yourself (or another person)
- (informal) Something or somebody that is washed up; a has-been.
- The act by which something is washed.
- (military, slang) A meeting to gauge the success or failure of an operation or war game.
- (UK politics, slang) The period prior to dissolution of parliament, in which any remaining bills are quickly pushed through or else abandoned.
noun
- Something that washes; especially an appliance such as a washing machine or dishwasher.
- a home appliance for washing clothes and linens automatically
- A person who washes their hands compulsively, as a symptom of obsessive-compulsive disorder.
- A person who washes (especially clothes) for a living; a washerman or washerwoman.
- A flat piece of material, often of metal and often an annulus, placed beneath a nut or at some joint, to distribute pressure, alleviate friction, provide directionally differentiated friction (e.g. making the nut turn counter-clockwise only with difficulty), or prevent leakage.
- A face cloth.
- seal consisting of a flat disk placed to prevent leakage
- someone who washes things for a living
verb
noun
- A sink in a kitchen used for washing crockery, cutlery, utensils, food, etc., and disposing of waste.
- (also attributive) A miscellaneous item or a miscellany, especially exemplifying an indiscriminate profusion.
- (metonymic) In chained or tied to the kitchen sink, etc.: domestic chores or housework, especially when regarded as menial and tedious.
- a sink in a kitchen
adj
- (by extension, drama, fiction, film, television, originally derogatory) Of or pertaining to a mid-20th-century (especially 1950s–1960s) genre of drama, fiction, etc., in Britain depicting the harsh lives of working-class people; also, of or pertaining to a film, novel, play, etc., of this genre.
- (painting) Of or pertaining to a mid-20th-century realist style of painting in Britain characterized by scenes of dull or untidy domestic interiors such as kitchens in the homes of urban working-class people; also, of or pertaining to an artist or group of artists painting in this style.
verb
- (intransitive) To raise unrelated complaints and other matters during an argument.
- To raise to (someone) unrelated complaints and other matters during an argument.
- To make (something) overly complicated or elaborate; to overcomplicate, to overwork.
- (business) To release (a large amount of information about the poor financial results of a company) in one go, in the hope that there will be less impact.
noun
noun
- A kitchen spatula.
- (theater) A small flat used to support a larger one.
- (informal, US) Television remote control, clicker.
- In marine mammals such as whales (or other aquatic animals such as sea turtles), a wide, flat limb adapted for swimming.
- (finance, art) Someone who flips, in the sense of buying a house or other asset and selling it quickly for profit.
- (cricket) A type of ball bowled by a leg spin bowler, which spins backwards and skids off the pitch with a low bounce.
- Someone who flips in any other sense, for example throwing a coin.
- A wide, flat, paddle-like rubber covering for the foot, used in swimming.
- (dentistry) A kind of false tooth, usually temporary.
- A flat lever in a pinball machine, triggered by the player to strike the ball and keep it in play.
- the flat broad limb of aquatic animals specialized for swimming
- a shoe for swimming; the paddle-like front is an aid in swimming (especially underwater)
verb
noun
- A washing.
- The act or process of soaking or boiling cloth in an alkaline liquid in the operation of bleaching.
- The act of a quadruped kicking both hind legs upward at once.
- The liquid used in this process.
- (forestry) The process of cutting a felled and delimbed tree into logs.
- The process of breaking up or pulverizing ores.
verb
noun
- A laundering; a washing.
- (slang, American football) A penalty flag.
- That which needs to be, is being, or has been laundered.
- A place or room where laundering is done - including, by extension, other forms of laundering than clothes washing.
- A business whose primary purpose is to conceal the origins of money received illegally.
- garments or white goods that can be cleaned by laundering
- workplace where clothes are washed and ironed
noun
- A row of modular kitchen units and a countertop, consisting of cabinets and appliances below (dishwasher) and next to (stove/cooker) a countertop.
- A column of people one behind another, whether "single file" or in a grid pattern.
- A roll or list.
- (military) A small detachment of soldiers.
- A tool consisting of a strip or rod of hardened and coarse metal, used for removing sharp edges, shaping, and cutting, especially through metal; usually a hand tool.
- A collection of papers collated and archived together.
- (computing) An aggregation of data on a storage device, identified by a name.
- A course of thought; a thread of narration.
- (chess) One of the eight vertical lines of squares on a chessboard (i.e., those identified by a letter).
- (Canada, US) Clipping of file cabinet.
- a line of persons or things ranged one behind the other
- a steel hand tool with small sharp teeth on some or all of its surfaces; used for smoothing wood or metal
- a set of related records (either written or electronic) kept together
- office furniture consisting of a container for keeping papers in order
verb
- (transitive) To commit (official papers) to some office.
- (transitive) To smooth, grind, or cut with a file.
- (transitive) To place in an archive in a logical place and order.
- (transitive) To store a file (aggregation of data) on a storage medium such as a disc or another computer.
- (intransitive) To move in a file.
- To corrupt.
- (transitive) (of a journalist) To submit (an article) to a newspaper or similar publication.
- (intransitive, with for, chiefly law) To submit a formal request to some office.
- proceed in line
- smooth with a file
- place in a container for keeping records
- record in a public office or in a court of law
- file a formal charge against
noun
- An appliance designed to wash out the inside of something.
- (mining) A place in a mine where ore has been washed away by a flow of water.
- A total failure; a disappointment.
- (aeronautics) The aerodynamic effect of a small twist in the shape of an aircraft wing.
- A sporting fixture or other event that cannot be completed because of rain.
- (British, air force slang) A destroyed aeroplane.
- (also biology) The cleaning of matter from a physiological system using a fluid; also, the fluid used for such cleaning; or the matter cleaned out from the system.
- (originally US, rail transport, road transport) A breach in a railway or road caused by flooding.
- A period between clinical treatments in which any medication delivered as the first treatment is allowed to be eliminated from a person's body before the second treatment begins.
- An unsuccessful person.
- The erosion of a relatively soft surface by a sudden gush of water; also, a channel produced by this action.
- (meteorology) The action whereby falling rainwater cleans particles from the air.
- An overwhelming victory; a landslide.
- (British, originally air force slang) A trainee who drops out of a training programme.
- An act of washing or cleaning the inside of something.
- someone who is unsuccessful
- the erosive process of washing away soil or gravel by water (as from a roadway)
- the channel or break produced by erosion of relatively soft soil by water
noun
- A programme on a washing machine, dishwasher, or other such device.
- An interval of space or time in which one set of events or phenomena is completed.
- An age; a long period of time.
- A pedal-powered vehicle, such as a unicycle, bicycle, or tricycle, or a motorized vehicle that has either two or three wheels.
- A process that returns to its beginning and then repeats itself in the same sequence.
- A complete rotation of anything.
- A series of poems, songs or other works of art, typically longer than a trilogy.
- (topology, algebraic topology) A chain whose boundary is zero.
- (graph theory) A closed walk or path, with or without repeated vertices allowed.
- (botany) One entire round in a circle or a spire.
- (weaponry) A discharge of a taser.
- (aviation) One take-off and landing of an aircraft, referring to a pressurisation cycle which places stresses on the fuselage.
- (usually plural) A hertz; cycle per second.
- An orderly list for a given time; a calendar.
- (sports) A scheduled period of time of weeks or months wherein a performance-enhancing substance or, by extension, supplement is applied, to be followed by another one where it is not or the dosage is lower.
- (baseball) A single, a double, a triple, and a home run hit by the same player in the same game.
- The members of the sequence formed by such a process.
- An imaginary circle or orbit in the heavens; one of the celestial spheres.
- (specifically and now usually) A bicycle.
- a wheeled vehicle that has two wheels and is moved by foot pedals
- a periodically repeated sequence of events
- the unit of frequency; one hertz has a periodic interval of one second (named for Heinrich Rudolph Hertz)
- a series of poems or songs on the same theme
- a single complete execution of a periodically repeated phenomenon
- an interval during which a recurring sequence of events occurs
verb
- (electronics) To turn power off and back on
- To ride a bicycle or other cycle.
- To go through a cycle or to put through a cycle.
- (ice hockey) To maintain a team's possession of the puck in the offensive zone by handling and passing the puck in a loop from the boards near the goal up the side boards and passing to back to the boards near the goal
- cause to go through a recurring sequence
- ride a motorcycle
- ride a bicycle
- recur in repeating sequences
- pass through a cycle
noun
- a kitchen appliance for disposing of garbage
- a method of tending to or managing the affairs of some group of people (especially the group's business affairs)
- the act or means of getting rid of something
- the power to use something or someone
- (uncountable) The power to use something or someone.
- (countable) A garbage disposal
- (countable, Australian rules football) A kick or a handball of the ball during a game.
- (Internet slang, paraphilia, furry fandom) A sexual paraphilia, as in art, fiction, and role-playing, that involves a character consuming and digesting another and disposing their remains as bodily fluids, typically as via ejaculation or defecation.
- (countable) A disposition; an arrangement, categorization, or classification of things.
verb
- wash dishes
- be carried somewhere by water or as if by water
- wash one's face and hands
- carry somewhere (of water or current or waves)
- wear out completely
- (intransitive) To be carried by water to land.
- (British, ambitransitive) To clean the utensils, dishes etc. used in preparing and eating a meal.
- (US, intransitive) To wash one's hands or face, often around mealtimes.
- (transitive, of water) To carry (an object) to land.
- (intransitive, by extension) To arrive in a place; to end up somewhere.
- (slang, transitive, African-American Vernacular) To beat up (someone).
verb
- To clean thoroughly, particularly with a dishcloth or rag.
- (US, transitive, slang, figurative) To defeat (an opponent) thoroughly; trounce.
- (British, Australian, intransitive) To dry utensils, dishes etc. that have been washed.
- To completely remove spilled liquid or solids, typically by hand using a dishcloth.
- to wash or wipe with or as if with a mop
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