wash out
IPA: wˈɑʃˈaʊt
verb
- To wash the inside of something.
- To remove something by washing.
- To be removed by washing.
- (idiomatic) To wear away by the flow of water; to erode.
- (idiomatic) To cancel due to bad weather.
- (idiomatic) To lose traction while going around a turn, especially in cycling, motorsports and skiing/snowboarding.
washout
IPA: wˈɑʃaʊt
noun
- An act of washing or cleaning the inside of something.
- An appliance designed to wash out the inside of something.
- The erosion of a relatively soft surface by a sudden gush of water; also, a channel produced by this action.
- (originally US, rail transport, road transport) A breach in a railway or road caused by flooding.
- (slang)
- A sporting fixture or other event that cannot be completed because of rain.
- An overwhelming victory; a landslide.
- A total failure; a disappointment.
- An unsuccessful person.
- (aviation)
- (aeronautics) The aerodynamic effect of a small twist in the shape of an aircraft wing.
- (Britain, air force slang) A destroyed aeroplane.
- (Britain, originally air force slang) A trainee who drops out of a training programme.
- (medicine)
- A period between clinical treatments in which any medication delivered as the first treatment is allowed to be eliminated from a person's body before the second treatment begins.
- (also biology) The cleaning of matter from a physiological system using a fluid; also, the fluid used for such cleaning; or the matter cleaned out from the system.
- (meteorology) The action whereby falling rainwater cleans particles from the air.
- (mining) A place in a mine where ore has been washed away by a flow of water.
wash-out
IPA: wˈɑʃˈaʊt
noun
- Alternative form of washout [An act of washing or cleaning the inside of something.]
Examples of "washout" in Sentences
- This is referred to as aerodynamic washout.
- Another feature of the wing was its washout.
- Deforestation increases the risk of washouts.
- For hot washing a special washout point was needed.
- Good news for you... I'm a drunk and a washout already,
- Brushes scrub the plate to facilitate the washout process.
- Precipitation reduces the air pollutant by washout effect.
- One method of tailoring such stall behavior is known as washout.
- It may be measured by Fowler's method, a nitrogen washout technique.
- Color "washout" - noticeable with wider viewing angles -, which occurs with other technologies, is not present.
- The bridge washout is not an unusual happening in that part of Sonora during heavy rains - they are used to dealing with it.
- Stall strips can be an alternative to washout in aircraft design or they can be used as well as washout to improve stall performance.
- The highway, Wyoming 130, is open but traffic in either direction can only go as far as the washout, which is about 13 miles east of the Wyoming 230 junction.
- It gave me hardcore flashbacks of mega-plant Carly Smithson, the intermittently-Irish waitress / major-label washout who Simon propped the hell out of last season.
- But in 1870, a T. W. Twyford, of Hanley, England, brought out an all-earthenware closet called the washout, in which the trap was built into the entire water closet.
- Location: Washington, D.C. First Pitch: 7: 05 p.m. Outlook: Still a long way out, but it does not look to be a fullday washout, which is the first step to getting nice weather.
- Such an effect is known as washout of the asymmetry and the criterion for this not to happen translates into, among other things, a bound on the mass of the lightest Higgs particle in the theory.
- I'm not sure what happens when an antrum washout is performed spontaneously, even on the spur of the moment and in anger shall we say, using a left oblique italic nib via a Mont Blanc pen tanked up with a nice permanent black
Examples of "wash-out" in Sentences
- I don't believe it will be heavy or a wash-out, at least.
- All they needed was a “wash-out”—basically a power wash of the bullet holes—and a clean dressing.
- It turns out that the perfect star for situation A may turn out to be a wash-out in situation B, and vice versa.
- But it turns out that the perfect star for situation A may turn out to be a wash-out in situation B, and vice versa.
- Despite the grey – which seemed to have covered everything in a mildew of quiet – late summer had not been a wash-out as usual.
- Its wider viewing angle ensures that everyone in the room can catch each play without the wash-out often experienced with LCDs as you move away from straight-on viewing.
- Gasoline demand, not supply, may prove to be the casualty of Hurricane Irene, which promises a wash-out late summer weekend for 20% of Americans as it makes its way up the East Coast, analysts at J.P. Morgan said in a report.
- Seven people—one in Japan and six, including herself, in her local area—paid around $300 each to buy two forms of vitamin B and Centrum, which they took in two-week periods followed by two-week "wash-out" periods with no vitamins at all.