different between washing vs bath

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?w????/
• (General American) enPR: wôsh??ng, IPA^(key): /?w????/
• (cot–caught merger) enPR: wäsh??ng, IPA^(key): /?w????/
• Rhymes: -????

Noun

washing (countable and uncountable, plural washings)

1. (countable) The action of the verb to wash
   • 1855, Proceedings of the Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow

     I then took a piece of dry stone, ground it fine in a mortar, and placed the powder in water, the sand particles sunk rapidly to the bottom, while the clay remained suspended, and by several washings and decantings the sand and clay could be approximately separated […]

2. (uncountable, chiefly Britain, New Zealand, Australia) Clothing, bedlinen or soft furnishings that have been, are currently being, or are to be washed; laundry.

   My mother used to do the washing on a Monday

3. (countable, often in the plural) The residue after an ore, etc, has been washed

   The washings have a higher concentration of metal

4. The liquid used to wash an ore.
5. A place where a precious metal found in gravel is separated from lighter material by washing.

   the gold-washings, or silver-washings

6. A thin covering or coat.

   a washing of silver

7. (stock exchange) A fraudulent transaction in which the same stock is simultaneously bought and sold for the purpose of manipulating the market.
8. (pottery) The covering of a piece with an infusible powder, which prevents it from sticking to its supports, while receiving the glaze.

Synonyms

• (articles that have been or are to be washed): laundry (especially US)

Derived terms

• dirty washing

Translations

Verb

washing

1. present participle of wash

Anagrams

• Wangshi, hawings, hawsing

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: bäth, IPA^(key): /b???/
  • (Received Pronunciation, General South African) IPA^(key): [b???]
  • (South Asia) IPA^(key): [b??t??]
  • (General Australian, General New Zealand) IPA^(key): /b???/
• enPR: b?th, IPA^(key): /bæ?/
  • (US, Canada) IPA^(key): [bæ??b????be??]
  • (Northern England, Ireland) IPA^(key): [ba??bæ?]
• Rhymes: -???, -æ?

Etymology 1

From Middle English bath, baþ, from Old English bæþ (“bath”), from Proto-West Germanic *baþ, from Proto-Germanic *baþ? (“bath”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?eh?- (“to warm”). Corresponding inherited verbs are beath and bathe.

Noun

bath (plural baths)

1. A tub or pool which is used for bathing: bathtub.
2. A building or area where bathing occurs.
   • 1842, Joseph Gwilt, Encyclopaedia of Architecture

     Among the ancients, the public baths were of amazing extent and magnificence.

3. (real estate, informal) Clipping of bathroom.

4. The act of bathing.
5. A substance or preparation in which something is immersed.

   a bath of heated sand, ashes, steam, or hot air

Usage notes

Sense 4. is usually to take (US) or have (UK, Aus) a bath. See also Appendix:Collocations of do, have, make, and take

Synonyms

• bain (obsolete)

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

bath (third-person singular simple present baths, present participle bathing, simple past and past participle bathed)

1. (transitive) To wash a person or animal in a bath

Translations

Etymology 2

From Hebrew ????? (ba?).

Noun

bath (plural baths)

1. (historical units of measure) A former Hebrew unit of liquid volume (about 23 L or 6 gallons).
   • 1769, Bible (KJV), Ezekiel, 45:10–11:

     Ye shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath. The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure, that the bath may contain the tenth part of an homer, and the ephah the tenth part of an homer: the measure thereof shall be after the homer.

Meronyms

• (liquid volume): log (¹?₇₂ bath); cab, kab (¹?₁₈ bath); hin (¹?₆ bath); cor, kor, homer, chomer (10 baths)

Translations

References

• "Weights and Measures" at Oxford Biblical Studies Online

Anagrams

• Bhat, baht

French

Etymology

From English proper noun Bath where this paper was originally made.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bat/

Noun

bath m (plural baths)

1. English high quality letter paper popular in the 19th century.

Adjective

bath (plural baths)

1. Super, great, smashing; beautiful, fine, good, pleasant.

Further reading

• “bath” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English b? þ?.

Determiner

bath

1. Alternative form of bothe (“both”)

Conjunction

bath

1. Alternative form of bothe (“both”)

Etymology 2

From Old English bæþ, from Proto-West Germanic *baþ, from Proto-Germanic *baþ?.

Alternative forms

• baþ, baþþ, baathe, bathth, beað, beð, batth, bæð

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba?/
• Rhymes: -a?

Noun

bath (plural bathes or baðen)

1. A bath or pool, especially one by a hot spring; a body of liquid one immerses oneself in.
   1. A bath supposedly having curative or healing properties.
   2. A bath supposedly having spiritual properties.
   3. (alchemy) A bath used to produce distilled water.
2. The process of having a bath; a bathing.
3. A medicinal bathing; bathing as a treatment.

Derived terms

• Bathe
• bathen
• bathyng

Descendants

• English: bath
• Scots: bath

References

• “bath, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-16.

Welsh

Etymology 1

Probably from Proto-Celtic *batto-; according to the GPC, possibly related to Latin battuo (“I fight, pound, beat (up)”), though the semantics are far from certain.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba??/

Noun

bath m (plural bathau)

1. (obsolete) kind, sort

   Synonyms: math, siort, teip

2. stamp, coin

Derived terms

• bathdy (“mint”)
• bathol (“coined, minted”)
• bathu (“to mint”)

Etymology 2

Noun

bath m (plural baths)

1. Alternative spelling of bàth (“bath, bath tub”)

Etymology 3

Noun

bath m (plural baths)

1. Alternative spelling of bàth (“bath (unit of liquid volume)”)

Mutation

References

Further reading

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present) , “bath”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

Yola

Alternative forms

• bat

Etymology

From Middle English bat, batte, from Old English batt (“bat, club, cudgel”), probably of Celtic origin.

Noun

bath (plural bathès)

1. stick

References

• Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN