English-Finnish translations for washing

• huuhdonta
• huuhtominen
• peseminen
  Vieraillessani Bretagnessa ymmärsin, että alueella olisi tarvittu yksikköä tai asiantuntijoita, joiden tehtävänä olisi ollut öljypäästöjen saastuttamien lintujen puhdistus ja peseminen. When I visited Brittany, I appreciated for myself that there was a need for a unit, or specialists, with responsibility for cleaning and washing birds affected by oil slicks.
• pesu
  Jo vuonna 1989 komissio esim. solmi sopimuksen teollisuuden kanssa siitä, että kemiallisten aineiden sisältö on ilmoitettava pesu- ja puhdistusaineiden pakkauksissa. As far back as 1989, for example, the Commission agreed with industry that the content of chemical substances should be indicated on the packaging of washing and cleaning products.
• pyykki
  Likainen pyykki täytyy pestä ja puhdas kuivunut pyykki viikata kaappiin.

Definition of washing

• The action of the verb to '''wash'''
• Clothing, bedlinen or soft furnishings that have been, are currently being, or are to be washed; laundry
• The residue after an ore, etc, has been washed
• The liquid used to wash an ore
• A thin covering or coat
• A fraudulent transaction in which the same stock is simultaneously bought and sold for the purpose of manipulating the market

Synonyms

• laundry

Examples

• My mother used to do the washing on a Monday
• The washings have a higher concentration of metal
• the gold-washings, or silver-washings
• a washing of silver

Related words

• Washington
• whitewashing
• washing-up
• brainwashing
• greenwashing
• swashing
• brain-washing
• dishwashing
• Washingtonian