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• Wash West — Wash Westmoreland (b. March 4, 1966) has recently emerged as a nationally known independent film director with his 2006 release, Quinceañera , which had a double Sundance win (Audience Award and Grand Jury Prize), and also picked up the Humanitas …   Wikipedia

• Wash drawing — (Art) In water color painting, work in, or a work done chiefly in, washes, as distinguished from that done in stipple, in body color, etc. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• wash|er|man — «WOSH uhr muhn, WSH », noun, plural men. a man whose work is washing clothes …   Useful english dictionary

• wash|er|wom|an — «WOSH uhr WUM uhn, WSH », noun, plural wom|en. a woman whose work is washing clothes; laundress …   Useful english dictionary

• wash — [[t]wɒ̱ʃ[/t]] ♦♦♦ washes, washing, washed 1) VERB If you wash something, you clean it using water and usually a substance such as soap or detergent. [V n] He got a job washing dishes in a pizza parlour... [V n] The colours gently fade each time… …   English dictionary

• wash — I. verb Etymology: Middle English, from Old English wascan; akin to Old High German waskan to wash and perhaps to Old English wæter water Date: before 12th century transitive verb 1. a. to cleanse by or as if by the action of liquid (as water) b …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• wash up — verb 1. wash one s face and hands (Freq. 1) She freshened up in the bathroom • Syn: ↑lave • Derivationally related forms: ↑lavation (for: ↑lave), ↑washup …   Useful english dictionary

• Wash This Blood Clean from My Hand — Infobox Book | name = Wash This Blood Clean from My Hand title orig = Sous les vents de Neptune translator = Sian Reynolds image caption = 1st English edition cover author = Fred Vargas cover artist = country = France language = French series =… …   Wikipedia

• work-shy — adjective disinclined to work or exertion faineant kings under whose rule the country languished an indolent hanger on too lazy to wash the dishes shiftless idle youth slothful employees the unemployed are not necessarily work shy • Syn: ↑ …   Useful english dictionary

• wash drawing — a watercolor painting executed by applying a series of monochrome washes one over the other. * * * ▪ art  artwork in which a fine layer of colour usually diluted ink, bistre, or watercolour is spread with a brush over a broad surface evenly… …   Universalium