English-Italian translations for washing

• bucato
• detersivo
  Signor Presidente, recentemente, a casa di mia cognata, ho notato la presenza di un detersivo per i piatti "ecologico" e me ne sono congratulato. Mr President, whilst recently at my sister-in-law's house, I noticed that she had a container of "eco-friendly" washing-up liquid.
  Se la stessa quantità di detersivo necessaria per lavare cinque chilogrammi di biancheria viene utilizzata per lavarne uno solo, qui sorge il vero problema dell’inquinamento ambientale. If the same amount of washing powder is used for one kilo of laundry as for five kilos, this is where the real environmental pollution arises.
  Il confronto tra un detersivo liquido, che è un detergente, e uno shampoo con analogo contenuto chimico, che tuttavia è un cosmetico, ha un certo fascino ma si tratta di un caso straordinario. The comparison between a washing-up liquid, which is a detergent, and a chemically similar shampoo, a cosmetic, is a tempting one to make, but it is an exceptional case.

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