Definition of Washing

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Washing

Gold dust procured by washing; also, a place where this is done; a washery.

A thin covering or coat; as, a washing of silver.

The operation of simultaneously buying and selling the same stock for the purpose of manipulating the market. The transaction is fictitious, and is prohibited by stock-exchange rules.

The covering of a piece with an infusible powder, which prevents it from sticking to its supports, while receiving the glaze.

of Wash

The act of one who washes; the act of cleansing with water; ablution.

The clothes washed, esp. at one time; a wash.

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Washing Quotations

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
Pablo Picasso

Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
Leo Tolstoy

Of course voting is useful. But then again, I don't put a big glow to it. Voting is about as essential as washing yourself. It's something you're supposed to do. Now, you can't go around bragging, expecting to get props because you voted. That's stupid.
Chuck D.

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.
Paulo Freire

Sex is like washing your face - just something you do because you have to. Sex without love is absolutely ridiculous. Sex follows love, it never precedes it.
Sophia Loren

If I wasn't writing poems I'd be washing my hands all the time.
Sherman Alexie

I was more ashamed that I couldn't work the washing machine than the fact that I was taking drugs.
Elton John

I'm a hygiene freak. I'm like obsessive-compulsive when it comes to washing your hands.
Kelly Clarkson

I did not lose myself all at once. I rubbed out my face over the years washing away my pain, the same way carvings on stone are worn down by water.
Amy Tan

Normal is nothing more than a cycle on a washing machine.
Whoopi Goldberg

Washing Translations

washing in French is lavage
washing in Italian is lavabiancheria
washing in Latin is lavatio
washing in Spanish is lavadora, lavado

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