For Wash we have terms and definitions in 14 topics. The topics are Artist, Backgammon, Boating, Construction, Cruises, Drugs, Finance, Fine Art, Fish, Geologic, Natural Gas, Physical Geography, Sculptural and Watercolor.

Wash (Artist)

A transparent layer of diluted color that is brushed on.

Wash (Backgammon)

1. A blitzing (1) technique that involves switching points to hit an opposing blot.
2. ["Wash" the slate clean.] A settlement for zero points.

Wash (Boating)

The broken water left behind a speeding vessel. The surging action of the waves in the wash of a large boat can be very powerful.

Wash (Construction)

The slant upon a sill, capping, etc., to allow the water to run off.

Wash (Cruises)

Broken water at bow of a vessel making way. 2. Disturbed water made by a propeller or paddle wheel. 3. Blade of an oar.

Wash (Drugs)

Methamphetamine

Wash (Finance)

Gains equal losses.

Wash (Fine Art)

Thin, liquid application of paint in any medium.

Wash (Fish)

(1) To carry, erode, remove, or destroy by the action of moving water. To be carried away, removed, or drawn by the action of water. Removal or erosion of soil by the action of moving water. (2) A deposit of recently eroded debris. (3) Low or marshy ground washed by tidal waters. A stretch of shallow water. (4) (Western United States) The dry bed of a stream, articularly a watercourse associated with an alluvial fan, stream, or river channel. Washes are often associated with arid environments and are characterized by large, high energy discharges with high bed-material load transport. Washes are often intermittent and their beds sparsely vegetated. (5) Turbulence in air or water caused by the motion or action of an oar, propeller, jet, or airfoil.

Wash (Geologic)

A normally dry stream bed that ocassionally fills with water.

Wash (Natural Gas)

Removal of impurities from a gas or vapor by passing the gas through water or other liquid which retains or dissolves the impurity.

Wash (Physical Geography)

(1) Coarse alluvial sediments.
(2) The downslope movement of small particles of soil by overland flow. Also called sheetwash.
(3) A term used in the United States for a shallow intermittent stream channel found in arid and semi-arid regions.

Wash (Sculptural)

Used in watercolor painting, brush drawing, and occasionally in oil painting and sculpture to describe a broad thin layer of diluted pigment, ink, glaze or patina. Also refers to a drawing made in this technique.

Wash (Watercolor)

A transparent layer of diluted color that is brushed on.

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