What is the meaning of wash?

noun

• A thin coat of water-base paint.
• The work of cleansing (usually with soap and water.
  • synonyms: washing, lavation
• The dry bed of an intermittent stream (as at the bottom of a canyon.
  • synonyms: dry wash
• The erosive process of washing away soil or gravel by water (as from a roadway. )
  • usage: "from the house they watched the washout of their newly seeded lawn by the water"
  • synonyms: washout
• The flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller.
  • synonyms: slipstream, airstream, race, backwash
• A watercolor made by applying a series of monochrome washes one over the other.
  • synonyms: wash drawing
• Garments or white goods that can be cleaned by laundering.
  • synonyms: laundry, washing, washables
• Any enterprise in which losses and gains cancel out.
  • usage: "at the end of the year the accounting department showed that it was a wash"

verb

• Clean with some chemical process.
  • synonyms: rinse
• Cleanse (one's body) with soap and water.
  • synonyms: lave
• Cleanse with a cleaning agent, such as soap, and water.
  • usage: "Wash the towels, please"
  • synonyms: launder
• Move by or as if by water.
  • usage: "The swollen river washed away the footbridge"
• Be capable of being washed.
  • usage: "Does this material wash"
• Admit to testing or proof.
  • usage: "This silly excuse won't wash in traffic court"
• Separate dirt or gravel from (precious minerals. )
• Apply a thin coating of paint, metal, etc., to.
• Remove by the application of water or other liquid and soap or some other cleaning agent.
  • usage: "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"
  • synonyms: wash out, wash off, wash away
• Form by erosion.
  • usage: "The river washed a ravine into the mountainside"
• Make moist.
  • usage: "The dew moistened the meadows"
  • synonyms: moisten, dampen
• Wash or flow against.
  • usage: "the waves laved the shore"
  • synonyms: lave, lap
• To cleanse (itself or another animal) by licking.
  • usage: "The cat washes several times a day"