Found 4 items, similar to Washing.
English → Indonesian (Kamus Landak) Definition: wash mencuci
English → Indonesian (quick) Definition: washing basuh, pembasuhan
English → English (WordNet) Definition: washing washing n 1: the work of cleansing (usually with soap and water) [syn: wash, lavation] 2: garments or white goods that can be cleaned by laundering [syn: laundry, wash, washables]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Washing Wash \Wash\ (w[o^]sh), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Washed; p. pr. & vb. n. Washing.] [OE. waschen, AS. wascan; akin to D. wasschen, G. waschen, OHG. wascan, Icel. & Sw. vaska, Dan. vaske, and perhaps to E. water. [root]150.] 1. To cleanse by ablution, or dipping or rubbing in water; to apply water or other liquid to for the purpose of cleansing; to scrub with water, etc., or as with water; as, to wash the hands or body; to wash garments; to wash sheep or wool; to wash the pavement or floor; to wash the bark of trees. [1913 Webster] When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, . . . he took water and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person. --Matt. xxvii. 24. [1913 Webster] 2. To cover with water or any liquid; to wet; to fall on and moisten; hence, to overflow or dash against; as, waves wash the shore. [1913 Webster] Fresh-blown roses washed with dew. --Milton. [1913 Webster] [The landscape] washed with a cold, gray mist. --Longfellow. [1913 Webster] 3. To waste or abrade by the force of water in motion; as, heavy rains wash a road or an embankment. [1913 Webster] 4. To remove by washing to take away by, or as by, the action of water; to drag or draw off as by the tide; -- often with away, off, out, etc.; as, to wash dirt from the hands. [1913 Webster] Arise, and be baptized, and wash away thy sins. --Acts xxii. 16. [1913 Webster] The tide will wash you off. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 5. To cover with a thin or watery coat of color; to tint lightly and thinly. [1913 Webster] 6. To overlay with a thin coat of metal; as, steel washed with silver. [1913 Webster] 7. To cause dephosphorisation of (molten pig iron) by adding substances containing iron oxide, and sometimes manganese oxide. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] 8. To pass (a gas or gaseous mixture) through or over a liquid for the purpose of purifying it, esp. by removing soluble constituents. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] To wash gold, etc., to treat earth or gravel, or crushed ore, with water, in order to separate the gold or other metal, or metallic ore, through their higher density. To wash the hands of. See under Hand. [1913 Webster] Washing \Wash"ing\, n. 1. The act of one who washes; the act of cleansing with water; ablution. [1913 Webster] 2. The clothes washed, esp. at one time; a wash. [1913 Webster] 3. (Mining) Gold dust procured by washing; also, a place where this is done; a washery. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] 4. A thin covering or coat; as, a washing of silver. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] 5. (Stock Exchanges) 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.] 6. (Pottery) 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 (Zo["o]l.), 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. [1913 Webster]