1.Definition: a thin coat of water-base paint

Category: Objects

2.Definition: a watercolor made by applying a series of monochrome washes one over the other

Category: Objects

3.Definition: any enterprise in which losses and gains cancel out

"At the end of the year the accounting department showed that it was a wash"

Category: General

4.Definition: garments or white goods that can be cleaned by laundering

Related Noun(s):laundry, washables

Category: Objects

5.Definition: the dry bed of an intermittent stream (as at the bottom of a canyon)

Category: Objects

6.Definition: the erosive process of washing away soil or gravel by water (as from a roadway)

"From the house they watched the washout of their newly seeded lawn by the water"

Related Noun(s):washout

Category: General

7.Definition: the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller

Related Noun(s):airstream, backwash, race, slipstream

Category: General

8.Definition: the work of cleansing (usually with soap and water)

Related Noun(s):lavation

Category: General