Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A person who washes dishes, especially one hired to wash dishes in a restaurant.
- noun A machine for washing dishes.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who washes dishes.
- noun The pied wagtail, Motacilla lugubris.
- noun The grinder, or restless flycatcher, Seisura inquieta. See
Seisura . - noun A machine for cleaning and washing plates, dishes, etc.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who, or that which, washes dishes.
- noun (Zoöl.) A European bird; the wagtail.
- noun an electrical appliance{4} which washes tableware automatically by directing powerful streams of hot soapy water at the items from multiple jets.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
machine for washing dishes. - noun Someone who washes dishes, especially one
hired to wash dishes in arestaurant . - noun UK, dialect A
European bird , thewagtail .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a machine for washing dishes
- noun a machine for washing dishes
- noun someone who washes dishes
Etymologies
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Examples
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Cleaning dishes before they go into the dishwasher is a little wasteful (and annoying), but running a load through the dishwasher and pulling out dirty dishes is worse.
Don’t Clean Dishes Before Putting Them In The Dishwasher | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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Just 21% (down from 35%) say a dishwasher is a necessity, and 66% say the same for a dryer (down from 83%).
Survey: Americans reclassifying luxury, necessity in recession 2009
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BlackRabbit -- A hot dishwasher is good enough, and I reckon it keeps for a month in the fridge.
make it at home | Homesick Texan Homesick Texan 2009
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The dishwasher is cleaning the last of her dishes.
Dante Requiem joshenglish 2009
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But beyond a two-year or five-year warranty, it can be a mystery just how long a dishwasher is expected to keep cleaning efficiently.
What's the Life Expectency Of Your Home's New Technology? The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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The only other person I know personally that has a dishwasher is one of our nieces that lives in México City.
Page 2 2009
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Finding a Kevlar or pieces of M4 magazines in the dishwasher is "normal" in my house.
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Putting away clean dishes from the dishwasher is often a tedious job.
Top 8 Electrolux Design Lab 09 finalists | Electrolux Design Lab 2010 2010
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It's pretty exciting that the dishwasher is getting fixed tomorrow, too.
January 24th, 2010 tragic_elegance 2010
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The only other person I know personally that has a dishwasher is one of our nieces that lives in México City.
Page 2 2009
oroboros commented on the word dishwasher
Dish+was+her. An aside: washer contains 'she' and 'her' with a shared 'he'.
February 4, 2014