washings
- 1Plural of washing.
The chemist combined all the washings and measured the residue left behind.
Factory washings flowed into the settling tank before any treatment began.
Note
A plural that belongs mainly to the countable senses of washing. In mining it names the residue left after ore is washed, a sense that often appears in the plural anyway. It can also mean the liquid used to wash ore, or the places where precious metal is washed out of gravel. The laundry sense, used in British, Australian and New Zealand English, is a mass noun: you do the washing, not the washings.
washings is a form of washing
washing, noun: The act or process of cleaning something with water or another liquid. Full entry
- Forms
- washingwashings plural
- Spelling
- washing → washings: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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