(a.) Washed by the waves or tide; -- said of a rock or strip of shore, or (Naut.) of an anchor, etc., when flush with the surface of the water, so that the waves break over it.
Example Sentences:
(1) Albuquerque is awash with speculation over how the show will climax today.
(2) Needless to say, the place is now awash in self-flagellation.
(3) Hidden City writer Karl Whitney on Dublin Read more And now for a pint of the black stuff Ireland’s capital is awash with history but no visit would be complete without a sample of the black stuff.
(4) "It was a one-way shooting massacre," said Wuerkaixi, who left the square on the last ambulance to arrive in hospital awash with blood: "Darker, fresher, lighter, red.
(5) Nokia's downfall came about because its Symbian smartphone software was awash with redundancy and complexity.
(6) The BBC is awash with nipples after the watershed, so is the stage, the cinema and the art gallery.
(7) "America is absolutely awash with easily obtainable firearms.
(8) Like its predecessors (The Tudors, Spartacus, Camelot etc) the 10-part potboiler is awash with wrecking ball exposition, window-rattling anachronisms and scenes in which heritage hardbodies have shouting backwards sex next to stupefied livestock.
(9) Speaking in London, Ban Ki-moon said: “Yemen is in flames and coalition airstrikes in particular continue to strike schools, hospitals, mosques and civilian infrastructure.” He claimed that Yemen “was awash with weapons”, adding: “We need states that are party to [the] arms trade treaty to set an example in fulfilling one of the treaty’s main purposes – controlling arms flows to actors that may use them in ways that breach international humanitarian law”.
(10) It sounds trite now, but I was born in '58, so when I was seven or eight the city [of Liverpool] was awash with music.
(11) As the judge directed his focus on UK newspaper websites, less regulated parts of the digital world, notably Twitter and Facebook, were awash with discussion about Harwood's character and his possible guilt.
(12) He said: After that tumultuous session in Asia, London equity dealers have unsurprisingly been left staring at screens awash with red as markets open.
(13) The internet has been awash with rumours, the inane chirping of the Twitter ranks rising slowly to a roar.
(14) Moreover, the world is awash in liquidity right now, and even where a government’s own money is inadequate, it is often possible to establish public-private partnerships to build genuinely high-return projects.
(15) Twitter was awash with angry comments, including one from chef-turned school meals campaigner Jamie Oliver, who urged the nine-year-old to "stay strong" .
(16) The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou was awash with the turquoises of the sea and the red bobble hats of the eccentric crew.
(17) Modern life is awash with tips on how to live well, exhorting us to practice gratitude, discover meaning and ponder our legacy.
(18) In a system already awash with campaign donations and money from lobbyists, such a level of financial backing has some worried.
(19) In the meantime, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram are awash with people forwarding the information, sharing links to foreign websites, expressing opinions – and utterly ignoring those who are making pathetic attempts to turn back the clock to a time before WikiLeaks, and before bloggers who don't give two hoots about the censor."
(20) Nichols, too, recalls that this Easter – just a fortnight after Pope Francis was elected – Westminster Cathedral found itself awash with penitents.
Wash
Definition:
(v. t.) To cleanse by ablution, or dipping or rubbing in water; to apply water or other liquid to for the purpose of cleansing; to scrub with water, etc., or as with water; as, to wash the hands or body; to wash garments; to wash sheep or wool; to wash the pavement or floor; to wash the bark of trees.
(v. t.) To cover with water or any liquid; to wet; to fall on and moisten; hence, to overflow or dash against; as, waves wash the shore.
(v. t.) To waste or abrade by the force of water in motion; as, heavy rains wash a road or an embankment.
(v. t.) To remove by washing to take away by, or as by, the action of water; to drag or draw off as by the tide; -- often with away, off, out, etc.; as, to wash dirt from the hands.
(v. t.) To cover with a thin or watery coat of color; to tint lightly and thinly.
(v. t.) To overlay with a thin coat of metal; as, steel washed with silver.
(v. i.) To perform the act of ablution.
(v. i.) To clean anything by rubbing or dipping it in water; to perform the business of cleansing clothes, ore, etc., in water.
(v. i.) To bear without injury the operation of being washed; as, some calicoes do not wash.
(v. i.) To be wasted or worn away by the action of water, as by a running or overflowing stream, or by the dashing of the sea; -- said of road, a beach, etc.
(n.) The act of washing; an ablution; a cleansing, wetting, or dashing with water; hence, a quantity, as of clothes, washed at once.
(n.) A piece of ground washed by the action of a sea or river, or sometimes covered and sometimes left dry; the shallowest part of a river, or arm of the sea; also, a bog; a marsh; a fen; as, the washes in Lincolnshire.
(n.) Substances collected and deposited by the action of water; as, the wash of a sewer, of a river, etc.
(n.) Waste liquid, the refuse of food, the collection from washed dishes, etc., from a kitchen, often used as food for pigs.
(n.) The fermented wort before the spirit is extracted.
(n.) A mixture of dunder, molasses, water, and scummings, used in the West Indies for distillation.
(n.) That with which anything is washed, or wetted, smeared, tinted, etc., upon the surface.
(n.) A liquid cosmetic for the complexion.
(n.) A liquid dentifrice.
(n.) A liquid preparation for the hair; as, a hair wash.
(n.) A medical preparation in a liquid form for external application; a lotion.
(n.) A thin coat of color, esp. water color.
(n.) A thin coat of metal laid on anything for beauty or preservation.
(n.) The blade of an oar, or the thin part which enters the water.
(n.) The backward current or disturbed water caused by the action of oars, or of a steamer's screw or paddles, etc.
(n.) The flow, swash, or breaking of a body of water, as a wave; also, the sound of it.
(n.) Ten strikes, or bushels, of oysters.
(a.) Washy; weak.
(a.) Capable of being washed without injury; washable; as, wash goods.
Example Sentences:
(1) These studies led to the following conclusions: (a) all the prominent NHP which remain bound to DNA are also present in somewhat similar proportions in the saline-EDTA, Tris, and 0.35 M NaCl washes of nuclei; (b) a protein comigrating with actin is prominent in the first saline-EDTA wash of nuclei, but present as only a minor band in the subsequent washes and on washed chromatin; (c) the presence of nuclear matrix proteins in all the nuclear washes and cytosol indicates that these proteins are distributed throughout the cell; (d) a histone-binding protein (J2) analogous to the HMG1 protein of K. V. Shooter, G.H.
(2) Platelet-rich plasma (PRP) was prepared, and platelet aggregation studies were conducted directly or conducted on washed platelets prepared from PRP collected with ACD.
(3) Channel activation persists through the process of platelet isolation and washing and is manifested in higher measured values of [Ca2+]cyt and [Ca2+]dt in the "resting state."
(4) Spontaneous lipid peroxidation in washed human spermatozoa was induced by aerobic incubation at 32 C and measured by malonaldehyde production; loss of motility during the incubation was determined simultaneously.
(5) After short-term (1 h) incubation in suspension cultures cells were washed and plated in clonogenic agar cultures.
(6) The only other black woman I see in the building: washing dishes behind a door that was supposed to have been locked.
(7) Lymphocytes of inbred mice immunized with allogenic tumour cells were labelled in vitro or in vivo by 3H-thymidine, washed out and incubated with target cells in the presence of "cold" thymidine.
(8) A cross-over study (cimetidine, 1 g daily for 19 days; ranitidine, 300 mg daily for 19 days; wash-out period: 20 days) was carried out in six healthy volunteers.
(9) Released aggregates of the 19.6-kDa protein were removed from suspension by ultracentrifugation and separated from contaminating membranes by washing in 1.0% sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS).
(10) Removal of bPTH by washing the membranes virtually abolished activity, but washing after addition of bPTH plus Gpp(NH)p did not prevent continued accumulation of cAMP.
(11) The feces contained less than 3% of the dose and the expired 14CO2 and cage wash accounted for less than 0.2 and 1% of the dose, respectively.
(12) The ratio of the metabolically produced Ic to Ib but not the total amount of N-oxygenated metabolites varied greatly depending of the liver microsomal fractions used in the incubation mixtures of Ia; more Ib was produced from Ia using 9000 g supernatant and conversely, more Ic was formed using the washed microsomes of the same liver.
(13) On day 7, washes were collected as on day 0, and a collar was attached to the neck to prevent contamination from saliva.
(14) Chronic exposure of epithelial cells to the lysate mediator preparation, followed by washing, had no effect on their basal electrical or electrolyte-transporting properties.
(15) The binding of [3H]PAF to washed human platelets indicated subtle changes between Days 2 and 4, which became more noticeable by Day 6.
(16) The same ratio occurred when zinc (0 to 0.6 mM in citrate buffer) was added to semen or washed spermatozoa.
(17) While cells that were treated with antibody were unable to aggregate because of the inability to destroy cAMP, they aggregated normally when washed free of antibody.
(18) The philosopher defended his actions by referring to Pierre Bourdieu's concept of symbolic violence, naturally enough, but it didn't wash with HR.
(19) Microbiological investigations made by membrane filtration method on antiseptics and disinfectants demonstrated that the filtering membranes present very frequently a remarkable antimicrobial activity, even after washing with 300 ml of peptone water according to the guidelines of the Pharmacopoeia.
(20) American Horror Story is a paean to the supernatural whose greatest purpose is letting washed-up actors and pop stars chew the scenery on the way to winning awards .