单词 | wash-up |
释义 | wash-upn. 1. a. An act of washing table utensils after a meal. In quots. attributive. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing table utensils > [noun] > act of washing table utensils wash-up1884 1884 Internat. Health Exhib. Official Catal. 93/2 Butler's Pantry and Wash-up Sinks. 1900 H. Lawson On Track 128 Grease inches deep in great black patches about the fireplace ends of the huts, where wash-up and ‘boiling’ water is thrown. b. ? dialect. A washing-up place, scullery. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > room > room by type of use > [noun] > utility rooms > specific still1533 stillatory?1600 still-roomc1710 scullery1753 sink-room1823 wash-kitchen1838 wash-up1869 1869 R. D. Blackmore Lorna Doone I. xi. 130 He made even mother laugh..and Betty Muxworthy roared in the wash-up. c. A wash; an act of washing oneself. North American. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing oneself or body > [noun] > an act of wash1839 washdown1849 head dip1886 wash-up1887 1887 B. Harte Millionaire & Devil's Ford i. 176 You boys can go there for a general wash-up. 1917 C. Mathewson Second Base Sloan 64 They..dropped from the car and went back to the station for a wash-up. 1968 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 13 Feb. b–12/7 The shutdown of the assembly line for 30 minutes each shift—for rest and wash-up. 2. Mining. The washing of a collected quantity of ore; the quantity of gold that has been obtained by washing. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > mining > [noun] > washing or streaming > for gold gold washing1683 panning1838 pan-washing1850 rocking1850 ground-sluicing1857 gold panning1882 wash-up1890 blacksanding1906 society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > precious metal > [noun] > gold > obtained by specific method wash-up1890 pannings1891 1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Miner's Right II. xxiii. 209 As soon as we had finished the next wash-up I was to go back to Yatala. 1898 Westm. Gaz. 16 June 4/3 The gold consisted of about a quarter of a million dollars in dust and three-quarters of a million in drafts. The estimate of the wash-up varies from twelve millions to thirty millions. 3. A dead body washed up by the waves. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > dead body > [noun] > drowned floater1717 bloat1860 wash-upa1903 a1903 ‘H. S. Merriman’ Last Hope (1904) i Passen thinks it's [sc. the grave is] over there by the yew-tree—but he's wrong. That there one was a wash-up found by old Willem the lighthouse keeper one morning early. Draft additions 1993 4. A follow-up discussion or debriefing; also, an outcome. colloquial (originally Naval slang). ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > effect, result, or consequence > [noun] > outcome or that which results issuea1325 outcominga1382 conclusionc1384 endc1385 fruita1400 finec1405 termination?a1425 sumc1430 succession1514 sequel1524 game1530 success1537 event1539 pass1542 increase1560 outgate1568 exit1570 cropc1575 utmosta1586 upshoot1598 sequence1600 upshot1604 resultance1616 upshut1620 succedenta1633 apotelesm1636 come-off1640 conclude1643 prosult1647 offcome1666 resultant1692 outlet1710 period1713 outcome1788 outrun1801 outcome1808 upset1821 overcome1822 upping1828 summary1831 outgo1870 upcomec1874 out-turn1881 end-product1923 pay-off1926 wash-up1961 the mind > language > speech > conversation > [noun] > topic of or subject for conversation or gossip > discussion > type of discussion causerie1827 rag chawing1885 jobation1916 panel discussion1934 wash-up1961 teach-in1965 talk-in1967 rap session1968 whataboutery1974 whataboutism1978 1961 ‘J. Winton’ Down Hatch viii. 108 ‘My first, and my most pleasant, duty,’ said CincRock at the Wash-Up, ‘is to welcome you all here and to congratulate you on your excellent showing during [Exercise] “Lucky Alphonse”.’ 1985 National Times (Austral.) 22 Nov. 4/1 The formula was complicated. But in the wash-up, the loan agreement between AMRI and Firglers was extinguished. 1986 Business Educ. Today June 19/1 A leaf should be taken from the university seminar approach book where in between introductory lecture and group wash-up there is a period of individual fact-finding and researching. 1990 Aviation News 3 Aug. 277/4 All opposing and allied forces at Clark can sit down for a face-to-face ‘wash-up’ to sort out what went wrong and what went right—and why. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1923; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1869 |
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