Hand vs. Wash

Handnoun

The part of the fore limb below the forearm or wrist in a human, and the corresponding part in many other animals.

Handnoun

That which resembles, or to some extent performs the office of, a human hand.

Handnoun

A limb of certain animals, such as the foot of a hawk, or any one of the four extremities of a monkey.

Handnoun

An index or pointer on a dial; such as the hour and minute hands on the face of an analog clock, which are used to indicate the time of day.

Handnoun

In linear measurement:

Handnoun

Four inches, a hand's breadth.

Handnoun

(obsolete) Three inches.

Handnoun

A side; part, camp; direction, either right or left.

Handnoun

Power of performance; means of execution; ability; skill; dexterity.

Handnoun

An agent; a servant, or manual laborer, especially in compounds; a workman, trained or competent for special service or duty; a performer more or less skillful.

Handnoun

An instance of helping.

Handnoun

Handwriting; style of penmanship.

Handnoun

A person's autograph or signature.

Handnoun

Personal possession; ownership.

Handnoun

Management, domain, control.

Handnoun

That which is, or may be, held in a hand at once.

Handnoun

(card games) The set of cards held by a player.

Handnoun

(tobacco manufacturing) A bundle of tobacco leaves tied together.

Handnoun

(collective) The collective noun for a bunch of bananas.

Handnoun

Applause.

Handnoun

(historical) A Native American gambling game, involving guessing the whereabouts of bits of ivory or similar, which are passed rapidly from hand to hand.

Handnoun

(firearms) The small part of a gunstock near the lock, which is grasped by the hand in taking aim.

Handnoun

A whole rhizome of ginger.

Handnoun

The feel of a fabric; the impression or quality of the fabric as judged qualitatively by the sense of touch.

Handnoun

(archaic) Actual performance; deed; act; workmanship; agency; hence, manner of performance.

Handnoun

(archaic) Agency in transmission from one person to another.

Handnoun

(obsolete) Rate; price.

Handverb

(transitive) To give, pass, or transmit with the hand, literally or figuratively.

Handverb

(transitive) To lead, guide, or assist with the hand; to conduct.

Handverb

To manage.

Handverb

To seize; to lay hands on.

Handverb

To pledge by the hand; to handfast.

Handverb

To furl.

Handverb

To cooperate.

Handnoun

That part of the fore limb below the forearm or wrist in man and monkeys, and the corresponding part in many other animals; manus; paw. See Manus.

Handnoun

That which resembles, or to some extent performs the office of, a human hand

Handnoun

A measure equal to a hand's breadth, - four inches; a palm. Chiefly used in measuring the height of horses.

Handnoun

Side; part; direction, either right or left.

Handnoun

Power of performance; means of execution; ability; skill; dexterity.

Handnoun

Actual performance; deed; act; workmanship; agency; hence, manner of performance.

Handnoun

An agent; a servant, or laborer; a workman, trained or competent for special service or duty; a performer more or less skillful; as, a deck hand; a farm hand; an old hand at speaking.

Handnoun

Handwriting; style of penmanship; as, a good, bad, or running hand. Hence, a signature.

Handnoun

Personal possession; ownership; hence, control; direction; management; - usually in the plural.

Handnoun

Agency in transmission from one person to another; as, to buy at first hand, that is, from the producer, or when new; at second hand, that is, when no longer in the producer's hand, or when not new.

Handnoun

Rate; price.

Handnoun

That which is, or may be, held in a hand at once

Handnoun

The small part of a gunstock near the lock, which is grasped by the hand in taking aim.

Handnoun

A gambling game played by American Indians, consisting of guessing the whereabouts of bits of ivory or the like, which are passed rapidly from hand to hand.

Handverb

To give, pass, or transmit with the hand; as, he handed them the letter.

Handverb

To lead, guide, or assist with the hand; to conduct; as, to hand a lady into a carriage.

Handverb

To manage; as, I hand my oar.

Handverb

To seize; to lay hands on.

Handverb

To pledge by the hand; to handfast.

Handverb

To furl; - said of a sail.

Handverb

To coöperate.

Handnoun

the (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb;

Handnoun

a hired laborer on a farm or ranch;

Handnoun

something written by hand;

Handnoun

ability;

Handnoun

a position given by its location to the side of an object;

Handnoun

the cards held in a card game by a given player at any given time;

Handnoun

one of two sides of an issue;

Handnoun

a rotating pointer on the face of a timepiece;

Handnoun

a unit of length equal to 4 inches; used in measuring horses;

Handnoun

a member of the crew of a ship;

Handnoun

a card player in a game of bridge;

Handnoun

a round of applause to signify approval;

Handnoun

terminal part of the forelimb in certain vertebrates (e.g. apes or kangaroos);

Handnoun

physical assistance;

Handverb

place into the hands or custody of;

Handverb

guide or conduct or usher somewhere;

Handnoun

the end part of a person's arm beyond the wrist, including the palm, fingers, and thumb

Handnoun

a prehensile organ resembling the hand and forming the end part of a limb of various mammals, such as that on all four limbs of a monkey.

Handnoun

a person's arm, including the hand

Handnoun

operated by or held in the hand

Handnoun

done or made manually rather than by machine

Handnoun

a round of applause

Handnoun

a person's handwriting

Handnoun

a pledge of marriage by a woman

Handnoun

a pointer on a clock or watch indicating the passing of units of time

Handnoun

used in reference to the power to direct something

Handnoun

an active role in achieving or influencing something

Handnoun

help in doing something

Handnoun

a person's workmanship, especially in artistic work

Handnoun

a person who does something to a specified standard

Handnoun

a person who engages in manual labour, especially in a factory, on a farm, or on board a ship

Handnoun

the set of cards dealt to a player in a card game

Handnoun

a round or short spell of play in a card game

Handnoun

the cards held by a declarer as opposed to those in the dummy

Handnoun

a unit of measurement of a horse's height, equal to 4 inches (10.16 cm).

Handnoun

a bunch of bananas

Handnoun

a forehock of pork.

Handverb

pick (something) up and give it to (someone)

Handverb

make (abusive, untrue, or otherwise objectionable remarks) to (someone)

Handverb

hold the hand of (someone) in order to guide them in a specified direction

Handverb

take in or furl (a sail)

Hand

A hand is a prehensile, multi-fingered appendage located at the end of the forearm or forelimb of primates such as humans, chimpanzees, monkeys, and lemurs. A few other vertebrates such as the koala (which has two opposable thumbs on each and fingerprints extremely similar to human fingerprints) are often described as having instead of paws on their front limbs.

Washverb

To clean with water.

Washverb

(transitive) To move or erode by the force of water in motion.

Washverb

(mining) To separate valuable material (such as gold) from worthless material by the action of flowing water.

Washverb

(intransitive) To clean oneself with water.

Washverb

(transitive) To cover with water or any liquid; to wet; to fall on and moisten.

Washverb

(intransitive) To move with a lapping or swashing sound; to lap or splash.

Washverb

(intransitive) To be eroded or carried away by the action of water.

Washverb

To be cogent, convincing; to withstand critique.

Washverb

(intransitive) To bear without injury the operation of being washed.

Washverb

(intransitive) To be wasted or worn away by the action of water, as by a running or overflowing stream, or by the dashing of the sea; said of road, a beach, etc.

Washverb

To cover with a thin or watery coat of colour; to tint lightly and thinly.

Washverb

To overlay with a thin coat of metal.

Washverb

(transitive) To cause dephosphorization of (molten pig iron) by adding substances containing iron oxide, and sometimes manganese oxide.

Washverb

(transitive) To pass (a gas or gaseous mixture) through or over a liquid for the purpose of purifying it, especially by removing soluble constituents.

Washnoun

The process or an instance of washing or being washed by water or other liquid.

Washnoun

A liquid used for washing.

Washnoun

A lotion or other liquid with medicinal or hygienic properties.

Washnoun

The quantity of clothes washed at a time.

Washnoun

(arts) A smooth and translucent painting created using a paintbrush holding a large amount of solvent and a small amount of paint.

Washnoun

The sound of breaking of the seas, e.g., on the shore.

Washnoun

The wake of a moving ship.

Washnoun

The turbulence left in the air by a moving airplane.

Washnoun

Ground washed away to the sea or a river.

Washnoun

A piece of ground washed by the action of water, or sometimes covered and sometimes left dry; the shallowest part of a river, or arm of the sea; also, a bog; a marsh.

Washnoun

A shallow body of water.

Washnoun

In arid and semi-arid regions, the normally dry bed of an intermittent or ephemeral stream; an arroyo or wadi.

Washnoun

A situation in which losses and gains or advantages and disadvantages are equivalent; a situation in which there is no net change.

Washnoun

A fictitious kind of sale of stock or other securities between parties of one interest, or by a broker who is both buyer and seller, and who minds his own interest rather than that of his clients.

Washnoun

Waste liquid, the refuse of food, the collection from washed dishes, etc., from a kitchen, often used as food for pigs; pigwash.

Washnoun

In distilling, the fermented wort before the spirit is extracted.

Washnoun

A mixture of dunder, molasses, water, and scummings, used in the West Indies for distillation.

Washnoun

A thin coat of paint or metal laid on anything for beauty or preservation.

Washnoun

(nautical) The blade of an oar.

Washnoun

The backward current or disturbed water caused by the action of oars, or of a steamer's screw or paddles, etc.

Washnoun

Ten strikes, or bushels, of oysters.

Washnoun

(architecture) The upper surface of a member or material when given a slope to shed water; hence, a structure or receptacle shaped so as to receive and carry off water.

Washnoun

(television) A lighting effect that fills a scene with a chosen colour.

Washverb

To cleanse by ablution, or dipping or rubbing in water; to apply water or other liquid to for the purpose of cleansing; to scrub with water, etc., or as with water; as, to wash the hands or body; to wash garments; to wash sheep or wool; to wash the pavement or floor; to wash the bark of trees.

Washverb

To cover with water or any liquid; to wet; to fall on and moisten; hence, to overflow or dash against; as, waves wash the shore.

Washverb

To waste or abrade by the force of water in motion; as, heavy rains wash a road or an embankment.

Washverb

To remove by washing to take away by, or as by, the action of water; to drag or draw off as by the tide; - often with away, off, out, etc.; as, to wash dirt from the hands.

Washverb

To cover with a thin or watery coat of color; to tint lightly and thinly.

Washverb

To overlay with a thin coat of metal; as, steel washed with silver.

Washverb

To cause dephosphorisation of (molten pig iron) by adding substances containing iron oxide, and sometimes manganese oxide.

Washverb

To pass (a gas or gaseous mixture) through or over a liquid for the purpose of purifying it, esp. by removing soluble constituents.

Washverb

To perform the act of ablution.

Washverb

To clean anything by rubbing or dipping it in water; to perform the business of cleansing clothes, ore, etc., in water.

Washverb

To bear without injury the operation of being washed; as, some calicoes do not wash.

Washverb

To be wasted or worn away by the action of water, as by a running or overflowing stream, or by the dashing of the sea; - said of road, a beach, etc.

Washverb

To use washes, as for the face or hair.

Washverb

To move with a lapping or swashing sound, or the like; to lap; splash; as, to hear the water washing.

Washverb

to be accepted as true or valid; to be proven true by subsequent evidence; - usually used in the negative; as, his alibi won't wash.

Washnoun

The act of washing; an ablution; a cleansing, wetting, or dashing with water; hence, a quantity, as of clothes, washed at once.

Washnoun

A piece of ground washed by the action of a sea or river, or sometimes covered and sometimes left dry; the shallowest part of a river, or arm of the sea; also, a bog; a marsh; a fen; as, the washes in Lincolnshire.

Washnoun

Substances collected and deposited by the action of water; as, the wash of a sewer, of a river, etc.

Washnoun

Waste liquid, the refuse of food, the collection from washed dishes, etc., from a kitchen, often used as food for pigs.

Washnoun

The fermented wort before the spirit is extracted.

Washnoun

That with which anything is washed, or wetted, smeared, tinted, etc., upon the surface.

Washnoun

A liquid cosmetic for the complexion.

Washnoun

The blade of an oar, or the thin part which enters the water.

Washnoun

A liquid dentifrice.

Washnoun

The flow, swash, or breaking of a body of water, as a wave; also, the sound of it.

Washnoun

A liquid preparation for the hair; as, a hair wash.

Washnoun

Ten strikes, or bushels, of oysters.

Washnoun

A medical preparation in a liquid form for external application; a lotion.

Washnoun

Gravel and other rock débris transported and deposited by running water; coarse alluvium.

Washnoun

A thin coat of color, esp. water color.

Washnoun

The dry bed of an intermittent stream, sometimes at the bottom of a cañon; as, the Amargosa wash, Diamond wash; - called also dry wash.

Washnoun

A thin coat of metal applied in a liquid form on any object, for beauty or preservation; - called also washing.

Washnoun

The upper surface of a member or material when given a slope to shed water. Hence, a structure or receptacle shaped so as to receive and carry off water, as a carriage wash in a stable.

Washnoun

an action or situation in which the gains and losses are equal, or closely compensate each other.

Washnoun

the disturbance of the air left behind in the wake of a moving airplane or one of its parts.

Washadjective

Washy; weak.

Washadjective

Capable of being washed without injury; washable; as, wash goods.

Washnoun

a thin coat of water-base paint

Washnoun

the work of cleansing (usually with soap and water)

Washnoun

the dry bed of an intermittent stream (as at the bottom of a canyon)

Washnoun

the erosive process of washing away soil or gravel by water (as from a roadway);

Washnoun

the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller

Washnoun

a watercolor made by applying a series of monochrome washes one over the other

Washnoun

garments or white goods that can be cleaned by laundering

Washnoun

any enterprise in which losses and gains cancel out;

Washverb

clean with some chemical process

Washverb

cleanse (one's body) with soap and water

Washverb

cleanse with a cleaning agent, such as soap, and water;

Washverb

move by or as if by water;

Washverb

be capable of being washed;

Washverb

admit to testing or proof;

Washverb

separate dirt or gravel from (precious minerals)

Washverb

apply a thin coating of paint, metal, etc., to

Washverb

remove by the application of water or other liquid and soap or some other cleaning agent;

Washverb

form by erosion;

Washverb

make moist;

Washverb

wash or flow against;

Washverb

to cleanse (itself or another animal) by licking;

Washverb

clean with water and, typically, soap or detergent

Washverb

clean oneself with soap and water

Washverb

(with reference to a stain or dirt) remove or be removed by cleaning with water and detergent

Washverb

(of fabric, a garment, or dye) withstand cleaning to a specified degree without shrinking or fading

Washverb

do one's laundry

Washverb

wet or moisten (something) thoroughly

Washverb

(of flowing water) carry (someone or something) in a particular direction

Washverb

be carried by flowing water

Washverb

(especially of waves) sweep or splash in a particular direction

Washverb

(of a river, sea, or lake) flow through or lap against (a country, coast, etc.)

Washverb

sift metallic particles from (earth or gravel) by running water through it

Washverb

brush with a thin coat of dilute paint or ink

Washverb

coat inferior metal with (a film of gold or silver from a solution)

Washverb

seem convincing or genuine

Washnoun

an act of washing something or an instance of being washed

Washnoun

a quantity of clothes needing to be or just having been washed

Washnoun

the water or air disturbed by a moving boat or aircraft

Washnoun

the breaking of waves on a shore

Washnoun

an inlet of the North Sea on the east coast of England between Norfolk and Lincolnshire.

Washnoun

a medicinal or cleansing solution

Washnoun

a layer of paint or metal spread thinly on a surface

Washnoun

silt or gravel carried by a stream or river and deposited as sediment.

Washnoun

a sandbank exposed only at low tide.

Washnoun

kitchen slops and other food waste fed to pigs.

Washnoun

malt fermenting in preparation for distillation.

Washnoun

a situation or result that is of no benefit to either of two opposing sides