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dishwashing

n. The act of cleaning the dishware.

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dishwashing

n. the act of washing dishes [syn: washup]

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Dishwashing

Dish washing ( British English: washing up) is the process of cleaning cooking utensils, dishes, cutlery and other items. This is either achieved by hand in a sink or using dishwasher and may take place in a kitchen, utility room, scullery or elsewhere. There are cultural divisions over rinsing and drying after washing.

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For months I had been nobody from nowhere, penniless, dishwashing my only trade, and a tramp in fact.

I preferred dishwashing to shoveling horse manure - especially as I had only one pair of shoes.

I got to my feet and helped them, and Nell with teasing amusement watched me fold pink napkins into water lilies and said, 'Well, well, hidden depths,' and I answered, 'You should see my dishwashing,' which were the sort of infantile surface remarks of something we both guessed might suddenly become serious.

My suggestion to Angus, while we were dishwashing after the battle, that maybe his food could have been injected somehow with a substance that even now could be working away to the detriment of everyone's health was received by him with frosty amusement.

When Calgary appeared like sharp white needles on the prairie horizon and everyone began pointing excitedly, I told Emil I would do my best to return for the dishwashing and sloped off up the train to George's office.

He was efficient and fastidious, using steaming hot water and lots of lemon-scented dishwashing liquid.

He smelled of soap, a good bracing aftershave, and lemon-scented dishwashing liquid.

The ground I lay upon was damp with the water of endless dishwashings and launderings.

The surface of them is so shiny you can almost see your reflection, like some kind of commercial for liquid dishwashing detergent.

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There was no tub, just a plastic shower stall, and the soap was brittle and smelled like dishwashing detergent.

In the fountain out front there was a big plaza sculpture plus a bunch of rubber float toys in water crested with Joy dishwashing liquid bubbles.

We're talking sanitary napkins, medicinal eyedrops, plastic bobby pins, felt-tip markers, creams and ointments for all nameable parts of the human body, dishwashing liquid in every color of the rainbow, and cosmetic rinses in some colors never before invented and yet undefined.

We put him away for telling television audiences that his brand of dishwashing liquid was good for the hands.

The only soap within reach was dishwashing liquid, and I squeezed a green handful into my right palm and brought it to my face.