单词 | handwashing |
释义 | handwashingn. 1. The action or an act of washing something by hand; (now esp.) the washing of clothing by hand rather than by machine; (concrete) clothing to be washed in this way. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing clothes and textile articles > [noun] scouring1464 washing1480 wash1704 handwashing1793 dobeying1929 the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing clothes and textile articles > [noun] > clothes to be or that have been washed > type of handwashing1793 coloured1884 flat work1921 1793 J. Pirie in J. Sinclair Statist. Acct. Scotl. V. xxiii. 363 What is cleansed by hand washing sells at about 12s. the stone. 1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 826 These kinds of assays..are performed by a hand-washing, in a small trough of an oblong shape. 1917 in Coll. Stud. Bureau Laboratories 9 397 A series of plates infected in a way similar to those prepared for testing hand washing, were passed through a mechanical washer. 1962 BSI News Feb. 17/1 Methods for the determination of colour fastness of textiles to a number of agencies, for example, soda boiling, handwashing, [etc.]. 1990 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) (Nexis) 23 Aug. Venturing into the laundry invariably ends up with you elbow-deep in handwashing. 2002 Signs 27 898 Washing machines are an obvious improvement over handwashing. 2. The action or practice of washing one's hands; an instance of this. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing oneself or body > [noun] > washing the hands handwashing1837 1837 Boston Courier 29 June The preparatory hand-washing in the nearest fountain or stream. 1879 F. W. Farrar Life & Work St. Paul I. i. iv. 64 The Talmud..devotes one whole treatise to hand-washings. 1918 Pennsylvania Med. Jrnl. Mar. 358/1 With regard to hand-washing facilities, my conviction is that all washing should be done in running water. 1964 M. Hynes Med. Bacteriol. (ed. 8) ii. 22 The main sterilizing action of hand-washing is the mechanical removal of epithelial scales and surface bacteria. 2003 Anthropos 98 108/1 A..pitcher used for ritual handwashing. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1793 |
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