wash

Pronunciation: [wɒʃ]

Average Rank: 8674

Chinese Translation (中文翻译)
Source: ECDICT

n. 洗, 洗涤, 冲洗, 洗的衣服, 冲积物, 洼地 vt. 洗, 洗涤, 洗清, 用水冲洗, 流过, 弄湿, 粉刷, 镀金属薄层于 vi. 洗涤, 洗澡, 被冲蚀, 漂浮

Detailed Explanations:
  • n. a thin coat of water-base paint
  • n. the work of cleansing (usually with soap and water)
  • n. the dry bed of an intermittent stream (as at the bottom of a canyon)
  • n. a watercolor made by applying a series of monochrome washes one over the other
ECDICT Dictionary Data
Collins Rating: ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆
Oxford 3000
Difficulty: BASIC
Exam Tags: zk gk
Word Forms:
Past Participle: washed
Present Participle: washing
Past: washed
Plural: washes
3rd Person: washes

Word Frequency Rankings

TV & Movie Scripts
#2325

Conversational and colloquial usage

Percentile: 76.8% (Top 76.8% most frequent)
76.8%

Out of 10,000 words in the TV & Movie Scripts corpus

Project Gutenberg
#3697

Classical and literary usage

Percentile: 63.0% (Top 63.0% most frequent)
63.0%

Out of 10,000 words in the Project Gutenberg corpus

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