wash
英 [w??]
美[wɑ?]
- n. 洗涤；洗的衣服；化妆水；冲积物
- vt. 洗涤；洗刷；冲走；拍打
- vi. 洗澡；被冲蚀
- n. (Wash)人名；(英)沃什；(尼日利)瓦什
英英释意
- 1. a thin coat of water-base paint
- 2. the work of cleansing (usually with soap and water)
- 3. the dry bed of an intermittent stream (as at the bottom of a canyon)
- 4. the erosive process of washing away soil or gravel by water (as from a roadway);
- "from the house they watched the washout of their newly seeded lawn by the water"
- 5. the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller
- 6. a watercolor made by applying a series of monochrome washes one over the other
- 7. garments or white goods that can be cleaned by laundering
- 8. any enterprise in which losses and gains cancel out;
- "at the end of the year the accounting department showed that it was a wash"