Difference between wash and rinseflush

Definitions

verb

1. admit to testing or proof
2. be capable of being washed
3. make moist
4. cleanse with a cleaning agent, such as soap, and water
5. separate dirt or gravel from (precious minerals)

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noun

1. a watercolor made by applying a series of monochrome washes one over the other
2. the dry bed of an intermittent stream (as at the bottom of a canyon)
3. the erosive process of washing away soil or gravel by water (as from a roadway)
4. the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller
5. garments or white goods that can be cleaned by laundering

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Examples

Sewage overflowed into wash basins at West Middlesex Hospital following a blockage in one of the toilets.

Mr Boardman said: ‘I was out walking with my wife and dog when we happened across a little cove and we found the creature in the flotsam that had been washed up.’

Upstairs were the bedrooms; “mother-and-father’s room” the largest; a smaller room for one or two sons, another for one or two daughters; each of these rooms containing a double bed, a “washstand, ” a “bureau, ” a wardrobe, a little table, a rocking-chair, and often a chair or two that had been slightly damaged downstairs, but not enough to justify either the expense of repair or decisive abandonment in the attic.

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