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1. Wash
   Gains equal losses.
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2. Wash
   Wash lighting. Stage lighting focussed on stage not in a specific spot, but more as a general lighting over an area. Several areas may be combined and balanced to effect an even light over the whole acting area.
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3. wash
   [n] - (western United States) the dry bed of an intermittent stream (as at the bottom of a canyon) 2. [n] - a thin coat of water-base paint 3. [n] - a watercolor made by applying a series of monochrome washes one over the other 4. [n] - (informal) any enterprise in which losses and gains cancel out 5. [n] - the work of cleansing (usually with soap and water) 6. [v] - be capable of being washed 7. [v] - admit to testing or proof 8. [v] - move by or as if by water 9. [v] - separate dirt or gravel from (precious minerals) 10. [v] - cleanse with a cleaning agent, such as soap, and water 11. [v] - clean with some chemical process 12. [v] - apply a thin coating of paint, metal, etc., to 13. [v] - remove by the application of water or other liquid and soap or some other cleaning agent 14. [v] - form by erosion 15. [v] - cleanse (one`s body) with soap and water 16. [v] - to cleanse (itself or another animal) by licking, as of a cat
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4. wash
   the disturbed air or fluid produced by the passage of a body Category: Physics
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5. Wash
   Wash (wŏsh) transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Washed (wŏsht); present participle & verbal noun Washing .] [ Middle English waschen , Anglo-Saxon wascan ; akin to Dutch wasschen , German waschen , Old High German wascan , Icelandic & Swedish vaska , Danish vaske< …
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6. Wash
   Wash intransitive verb 1. To perform the act of ablution. « Wash in Jordan seven times.» 2 Kings v. 10. 2. To clean anything by rubbing or dipping it in water; to perform the business of cleansing clothes, ore, etc., in water. "She can wash and scour." Shak. 3. To bear without injury the operation of being washed; as, some calicoe …
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7. Wash
   Wash noun 1. The act of washing; an ablution; a cleansing, wetting, or dashing with water; hence, a quantity, as of clothes, washed at once. 2. A piece of ground washed by the action of a sea or river, or sometimes covered and sometimes left dry; the shallowest part of a river, or arm of the sea; also, a bog; a marsh; a fen; as, the washes in Lincolnshire. "The Wash of …
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8. Wash
   Wash adjective 1. Washy; weak. [ Obsolete] « Their bodies of so weak and wash a temper.» Beau. & Fl. 2. Capable of being washed without injury; washable; as, wash goods. [ Colloq.]
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9. Wash
   Wash transitive verb 1. To cause dephosphorisation of (molten pig iron) by adding substances containing iron oxide, and sometimes manganese oxide. 2. To pass (a gas or gaseous mixture) through or over a liquid for the purpose of purifying it, esp. by removing soluble constituents.
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10. Wash
    Wash intransitive verb 1. To use washes, as for the face or hair. 2. To move with a lapping or swashing sound, or the like; to lap; splash; as, to hear the water washing .
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11. Wash
    Wash noun 1. [ Western U. S.] (Geol.) (a) Gravel and other rock débris transported and deposited by running water; coarse alluvium. (b) An alluvial cone formed by a stream at the base of a mountain. 2. The dry bed of an intermittent stream, sometimes at the bottom of a cañon; as, the Amargosa wash , Diamond wash ; -- called also dry w …
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12. wash
    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. "When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, . . . …
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13. wash
    noun any enterprise in which losses and gains cancel out; `at the end of the year the accounting department showed that it was a wash`
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14. wash
    dry wash noun the dry bed of an intermittent stream (as at the bottom of a canyon)
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15. wash
    lavation noun the work of cleansing (usually with soap and water)
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16. wash
    noun a watercolor made by applying a series of monochrome washes one over the other
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17. wash
    wash away verb remove by the application of water or other liquid and soap or some other cleaning agent; `he washed the dirt from his coat`; `The nurse washed away the blood`; `Can you wash away the spots on the windows?`; `he managed to wash out the stains`
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18. wash
    washing noun garments or white goods that can be cleaned by laundering
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19. wash
    (wahsh) to clean or bathe. a solution used for cleansing or bathing a part, as an eye or the mouth. See also irrigation and lavage.
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20. Wash
    • (n.) 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, as a carriage wash in a stable. • (n.) An alluvial cone formed by a stream at the base of a mountain. • (v. i.) To use washes, as for the face or hair. • (v. i.) To move...
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21. Wash
    Gains equal losses.
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22. Wash
    The purchase and sale of the same security whereby the gains equal the losses. Discover What It’s Like to Live Easy With EquiTrend
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23. Wash
    (1) Coarse alluvial sediments. (2) The downslope movement of small particles of soil by overland flow. Also called sheetwash. (3) A term used in the United States for a shallow intermittent stream channel found in arid and semi-arid regions.
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24. Wash
    A transparent layer of diluted color that is brushed on
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25. wash
    
    1. a thin coat of water-base paint
    2. the work of cleansing (usually with soap and water)
    3. (western United States) the dry bed of an intermittent stream (as at the bottom of a canyon)
    4. the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller
    5. garments or white goods that can be cleaned by laundering
    6. (informal) any enterprise in which losses and gains cancel out
    
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