washing

Pronunciation: ['wɒʃiŋ]

Average Rank: 10394

Source: ECDICT

n. 洗涤, 浸, 洗涤物 [机] 涂浆, 洗涤

n the work of cleansing (usually with soap and water)
n garments or white goods that can be cleaned by laundering
v clean with some chemical process
v cleanse (one's body) with soap and water
v cleanse with a cleaning agent, such as soap, and water
v move by or as if by water
v be capable of being washed
v admit to testing or proof
v separate dirt or gravel from (precious minerals)
v apply a thin coating of paint, metal, etc., to
v remove by the application of water or other liquid and soap or some other cleaning agent
v form by erosion
v make moist
v wash or flow against
v to cleanse (itself or another animal) by licking

Collins Rating: ★ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆

Oxford 3000

Difficulty: BASIC

Exam Tags: ielts

0: wash

1: i

Present Participle: washing

Plural: washings

Word Frequency Rankings

#5735

Conversational and colloquial usage

Percentile: 42.6% (Top 42.6% most frequent)

42.6%

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

#5447

Classical and literary usage

Percentile: 45.5% (Top 45.5% most frequent)

45.5%

Out of 10,000 words in the Project Gutenberg corpus

This word appears in 2 corpus/corpora, showing its usage across different contexts.