laundry

«laundry» in Mova's school dictionary: Clothes, sheets and towels that need washing or have just… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (laundry — no plural; a laundry, laundries for the place)

meaning for a pupil

1) Clothes, sheets and towels that need washing or have just been washed. tree →

2) The job of washing them. tree →

3) A room or a business where clothes are washed. tree →

sense in the lessons

In everyday life, children help with the laundry: sorting colours from whites, hanging washing out, folding and putting it away. In safety lessons, laundry detergent pods and powders are poisonous — never touch or eat them, and keep them away from small children. In science, washing shows how soap removes grease and how wet clothes dry by evaporation. Phrases: «do the laundry», «laundry basket», «dirty laundry», «laundry room».

examples

• Put your dirty socks in the laundry basket. tree →
• Dad does the laundry on Sundays. tree →
• Help me fold the clean laundry. tree →
• The laundry dried quickly on the line in the sun. tree →
• Laundry pods look like sweets but are poisonous. tree →
• Our flats have a shared laundry in the basement. tree →
• Sort the laundry into dark and light colours. tree →
• The hotel sends the sheets to a laundry. tree →

note

Uncountable for the clothes: «a lot of laundry», not «laundries». Similar: «washing» (British). Don't air dirty laundry in public means don't talk about private family problems to everyone.

In the corpora

• Laundry means sorting colours, reading labels and choosing the right temperature; a red sock in a white wash turns everything pink.
• Laundry pods and dishwasher tablets are poisonous and must be kept away from small children.
• Setting the table and folding laundry are small jobs that save time for everyone.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «laundry» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.