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slosh
English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
(onomatopoeia); compare splash, splosh.
Verb
slosh (third-person singular simple present sloshes, present participle sloshing, simple past and past participle sloshed)
- (intransitive, of a liquid) To shift chaotically; to splash noisily.
- The water in his bottle sloshed back and forth as he ran.
- (transitive, of a liquid) To cause to slosh
- The boy sloshed water over the edge of the bath.
- (intransitive) To make a sloshing sound.
- They were so completely soaked that they sloshed when he walked.
- (transitive, of a liquid) To pour noisily, sloppily or in large amounts
- The coffee was nice and hot, so she sloshed some into a cup and went back to her desk.
- He really sloshed on the sauce- they were a bit strong for my taste.
- (intransitive) to move noisily through water or other liquid.
- The streets were flooded, but they still managed to slosh their way to school.
- (Britain, colloquial, transitive) To punch (someone).
Derived terms
- aslosh
Translations
Noun
slosh (countable and uncountable, plural sloshes)
- (countable) A quantity of a liquid; more than a splash.
- We added a slosh of white wine to the sauce.
- (countable) A sloshing sound or motion.
- (uncountable) Slush.
- 2012, Cathy Gohlke, Promise Me This (page 299)
- Shoes and socks, soaked and frozen in the mud and icy slosh, did little to protect their feet.
- 2012, Cathy Gohlke, Promise Me This (page 299)
Coordinate terms
- splash
Etymology 2
By analogy with slash.
Noun
slosh (plural sloshes)
- (computing, slang) backslash, the character \.
Anagrams
- Sohls
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wash
English
Etymology
From Middle English washen, waschen, weschen, from Old English wascan, from Proto-Germanic *waskan?, *watskan? (“to wash, get wet”), from Proto-Indo-European *wed- (“wet; water”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian waaske (“to wash”), West Frisian waskje (“to wash”), Dutch wassen, wasschen (“to wash”), Low German waschen (“to wash”), German waschen (“to wash”), Danish vaske (“to wash”), Norwegian Bokmål vaske (“to wash”), Swedish vaska (“to wash”), Icelandic vaska (“to wash”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /w??/
- (General American) IPA(key): /w??/, /w??/
- (Canada, NYC, cot–caught merger) IPA(key): /w??/
- (US, intrusive r) IPA(key): /w???/
- Rhymes: -??
- Rhymes: -??(?)?
Verb
wash (third-person singular simple present washes, present participle washing, simple past and past participle washed)
- To clean with water.
- 1917, Lester Angell Round, Harold Locke Lang, Preservation of vegetables by fermentation and salting, page 9
- Wash the vegetables, drain off the surplus water, and pack them in a keg, crock, or other utensil until it is nearly full
- 1971, Homemaking Handbook: For Village Workers in Many Countries, page 101
- If using celery or okra, wash the vegetables in safe water.
- 2010, Catherine Abbott, The Everything Grow Your Own Vegetables Book: Your Complete Guide to planting, tending, and harvesting vegetables, Everything Books ?ISBN, page 215
- Wash the vegetables thoroughly; even a little dirt can contain bacteria. Wash vegetables individually under running water.
- 1917, Lester Angell Round, Harold Locke Lang, Preservation of vegetables by fermentation and salting, page 9
- (transitive) To move or erode by the force of water in motion.
- (mining) To separate valuable material (such as gold) from worthless material by the action of flowing water.
- (intransitive) To clean oneself with water.
- (transitive) To cover with water or any liquid; to wet; to fall on and moisten.
- [the landscape] washed with a cold, grey mist
- (intransitive) To move with a lapping or swashing sound; to lap or splash.
- (intransitive) To be eroded or carried away by the action of water.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To be cogent, convincing; to withstand critique.
- 2012, The Economist, Oct 13th 2012 issue, The Jordan and its king: As beleaguered as ever
- The king is running out of ideas as well as cash. His favourite shock-absorbing tactic—to blame his governments and sack his prime ministers—hardly washes.
- 2012, The Economist, Oct 13th 2012 issue, The Jordan and its king: As beleaguered as ever
- (intransitive) To bear without injury the operation of being washed.
- (intransitive) To be wasted or worn away by the action of water, as by a running or overflowing stream, or by the dashing of the sea; said of road, a beach, etc.
- To cover with a thin or watery coat of colour; to tint lightly and thinly.
- To overlay with a thin coat of metal.
- (transitive) To cause dephosphorization of (molten pig iron) by adding substances containing iron oxide, and sometimes manganese oxide.
- (transitive) To pass (a gas or gaseous mixture) through or over a liquid for the purpose of purifying it, especially by removing soluble constituents.
Usage notes
In older works and possibly still in some dialects, wesh and woosh may be found as past tense forms. Washen may be found as a past participle.
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
wash (plural washes)
- The process or an instance of washing or being washed by water or other liquid.
- A liquid used for washing.
- A lotion or other liquid with medicinal or hygienic properties.
- The quantity of clothes washed at a time.
- (art) A smooth and translucent painting created using a paintbrush holding a large amount of solvent and a small amount of paint.
- The sound of breaking of the seas, e.g., on the shore.
- 1924, Herman Melville, Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co., Chapter 16, [1]
- […] the wind in the cordage and the wash of the sea helped the more to put them beyond earshot […]
- 1924, Herman Melville, Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co., Chapter 16, [1]
- The bow wave, wake, or vortex of an object moving in a fluid, in particular:
- The bow wave or wake of a moving ship, or the vortex from its screws.
- 2003, Guidelines for Managing Wake Wash from High-speed Vessels: Report of Working Group 41 of the Maritime Navigation Commission, PIANC ?ISBN, page 5
- To date, much of the research undertaken on high-speed vessel wake wash has appeared only as unpublished reports for various authorities and management agencies.
- 2003, Guidelines for Managing Wake Wash from High-speed Vessels: Report of Working Group 41 of the Maritime Navigation Commission, PIANC ?ISBN, page 5
- The turbulence left in the air by a moving airplane.
- The backward current or disturbed water caused by the action of oars, or of a steamer's screw or paddles, etc.
- The bow wave or wake of a moving ship, or the vortex from its screws.
- (nautical) The blade of an oar.
- Ground washed away to the sea or a river.
- The wash of pastures, fields, commons, and roads, […] where rain water hath a long time settled.
- A piece of ground washed by the action of water, or sometimes covered and sometimes left dry; the shallowest part of a river, or arm of the sea; also, a bog; a marsh.
- A shallow body of water.
- In arid and semi-arid regions, the normally dry bed of an intermittent or ephemeral stream; an arroyo or wadi.
- 1997, Stanley Desmond Smith, et al. Physiological Ecology of North American Desert Plants, Nature
- In some desert-wash systems (which have been termed “xero-riparian”)
- 1999, Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, A Natural History of the Sonoran Desert
- ...though the wash may carry surface water for only a few hours a year.
- 1997, Stanley Desmond Smith, et al. Physiological Ecology of North American Desert Plants, Nature
- A situation in which losses and gains or advantages and disadvantages are equivalent; a situation in which there is no net change.
- (finance, slang) A fictitious kind of sale of stock or other securities between parties of one interest, or by a broker who is both buyer and seller, and who minds his own interest rather than that of his clients.
- Waste liquid, the refuse of food, the collection from washed dishes, etc., from a kitchen, often used as food for pigs; pigwash.
- In distilling, the fermented wort before the spirit is extracted.
- A mixture of dunder, molasses, water, and scummings, used in the West Indies for distillation.
- 1793, Bryan Edwards, History, Civil and Commercial, of the British Colonies in the West Indies
- In order to augment the vinosity of the wash, many substances are recommended by Dr. Shaw, such as tartar, nitre, common salt, and the vegetable or mineral acids.
- 1793, Bryan Edwards, History, Civil and Commercial, of the British Colonies in the West Indies
- A thin coat of paint or metal laid on anything for beauty or preservation.
- Ten strikes, or bushels, of oysters.
- (architecture) The upper surface of a member or material when given a slope to shed water; hence, a structure or receptacle shaped so as to receive and carry off water.
- (television) A lighting effect that fills a scene with a chosen colour.
- (stagecraft) A lighting fixture that can cast a wide beam of light to evenly fill an area with light, as opposed to a spotlight.
Synonyms
- lavatory
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- WASH (Water, Sanitation and Hygiene)
Anagrams
- Haws, Shaw, Wahs, haws, shaw, shwa, wahs
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