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)

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

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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