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dishwasher
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Word definitions for dishwasher in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ VERB load ▪ They were standing in the kitchen loading the dishwasher and putting the salads in the fridge when a picture caught her eye. ▪ Together, it took them only a few minutes to load the dishwasher . ▪ On the other ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also dish-washer , mid-15c. of persons; 1867 of machines; from dish (n.) + washer .
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Appliance \Ap*pli"ance\, n. The act of applying; application. subservience; compliance. [Obs.] --Shak. A thing applied or used as a means to an end; an apparatus or device; as, to use various appliances; a mechanical appliance; a machine with its appliances. ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A machine for washing dishes. 2 Someone who washes dishes, especially one hired to wash dishes in a restaurant. 3 (context UK dialect Wiltshire English) A European bird, the wagtail.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a machine for washing dishes [syn: dish washer , dishwashing machine ] someone who washes dishes
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A dishwasher is a mechanical device for cleaning dishes and eating-utensils . Dishwashers can be found in restaurants and private homes. Unlike manual dishwashing , which relies largely on physical scrubbing to remove soiling, the mechanical dishwasher ...
Usage examples of dishwasher.
She scooped the utensils off the table, along with the stemware and headed toward the dishwasher.
Poor sad Haleem Khan himself was gone too, the ever-weary little brown-skinned man who in ten years had somehow saved five thousand pounds from his salary as a dishwasher at the Lion and Unicorn Hotel and had used that, back when England had a queen and Elizabeth was her name, as the seed money for the unpretentious little restaurant that was going to rescue him and his family from utter hopeless poverty.
About the Author Clayton Emery has been a blacksmith, a dishwasher, a schoolteacher in Australia, a carpenter, a zookeeper, a farmhand, a land surveyor, and a volunteer firefighter, among other things.
While I was emptying the dishwasher, Herb came in waving a religious tract he found sticking out of the milkbox around at the side door & yelling 'Hallelujah!
It was after eleven, and except for drifters, derelicts, and Mexican dishwashers leaving darkened chophouses, the sidewalks were deserted.
The rapid diffusion of detergents used in home washing machines and dishwashers intensified water purification problems all over the United States.
When they finish feeding the derelicts tonight, there will be a high stack of dirty dishes I and you are looking at the heavyweight champion dishwasher in all of Mexico and los Estados Unidos.
Straughan to frown thoughtfully, and she propelled herself into the back section of the kitchen where the two big automatic dishwashers were installed.
All the same, she decided as she moved on to check the steam tables in the cafeteria, she would have another talk with the administrator about those dishwashers soon.
Normally the hot water should destroy them, but as it is they’re getting through the dishwashers onto your clean plates.
If the dishwashers were inefficient—and they appeared to be—something needed to be done promptly.
He led her back into the kitchen, where they left their empty mugs in one of the dishwashers, and then he walked her out to the hallway and started introducing her to people.
I checked a baker's dozen before I found one that needed a dishwasher.
I wanted to put the cups in the dishwasher, and it seems to be a bread bin.
The boucher, charcutier, dishwasher and I wrestle the beast down the stairs, its head bouncing gruesomely on each step.