wash
part of speech
verb (wash, washes, washed, washing); noun (a wash, washes; the wash)
meaning for a pupil
1) To clean something or someone with water and usually soap. tree →
2) To be carried by water: "The boat washed ashore." tree →
3) As a noun, an act of washing: "Give the car a wash." tree →
4) Clothes that are being washed: "in the wash". tree →
sense in the lessons
In health: wash your hands with soap for 20 seconds after the toilet, before eating and after touching animals; it removes germs. In everyday life: washing up dishes, washing clothes. In science: water can wash soil away (erosion). Phrases: wash up, wash your hands, wash away, washing machine, car wash.
examples
- Wash your hands before lunch. tree →
- I washed the dishes after dinner. tree →
- Your shirt is in the wash. tree →
- Waves washed the sandcastle away. tree →
- Wash the fruit before you eat it. tree →
- We give the dog a wash on Sundays. tree →
- Wash a cut with clean water. tree →
- Put your clothes in the washing machine. tree →
- "Come and wash with me," he said. tree →
note
He/she form: "washes" (add -es after sh). "Wash up" means wash dishes in British English, but wash your face and hands in American English. Wash with soap, not just water, to remove germs.
In the corpora
- Some families pay children for extra jobs, like washing the car, but tidying your own room is just part of living together.
- Laundry means sorting colours, reading labels and choosing the right temperature; a red sock in a white wash turns everything pink.
- Acrylic becomes plastic when dry and does not wash out easily, so artists wear old clothes or aprons.
- 3D pavement art uses perspective tricks so a chalk drawing looks deep from one spot; chalk washes away in the rain.
- A raccoon dipping food in water is feeling it, not washing it; water makes its paws even more sensitive.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «wash» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.