washer

See also: Washer

English

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Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈwɒʃə(ɹ)/
• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈwɑʃɚ/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɒʃə(ɹ)

Etymology 1

From Middle English wasshere, wassher, equivalent to wash +‎ -er. Cognate with Dutch wasser, German Wäscher.

Noun

washer (plural washers)

1. Something that washes; especially an appliance such as a washing machine or dishwasher.
   • 2021 January 13, “GA opens new carriage washers”, in RAIL, issue 922, page 15:

     A £1.2 million carriage washer has opened at Norwich Crown Point, enabling Greater Anglia to clean its 58 Stadler trains. It is one of two new washers (the other is for '720s' at Southend), […]

2. A person who washes (especially clothes) for a living; a washerman or washerwoman.

   Hypernym: cleaner

3. A person who washes their hands compulsively, as a symptom of obsessive-compulsive disorder.
4. A face cloth.

Derived terms

• air washer
• ball washer
• carpet washer
• chief cook and bottle washer, chief cook and bottle-washer
• dishwasher
• dish washer
• eye washer
• face washer
• gas washer
• gully washer, gully-washer, gullywasher
• head cook and bottle washer, head cook and bottle-washer
• log washer
• pressure washer, pressure-washer
• smoke-washer
• spud washer
• sweep-washer
• tumbler-washer
• washer-dryer
• washer-upper
• window washer
• windscreen washer
• windshield washer

Translations

something that washes

Bulgarian: пералня (bg) f (peralnja) Catalan: rentadora (ca) f Cherokee: ᏗᎬᎩᎣᏍᎩ (digvgiosgi) Czech: pračka (cs) f (for laundry), myčka (cs) f (for dishes) Danish: vaskemaskine (da) Dutch: wasmachine (nl) m, vaatwasser (nl) m Estonian: pesur (device), survepesur (power washer), pesumasin (home appliance, laundromat), nõudepesumasin (dishwasher) Finnish: pesukone (fi), pesuri (fi), pesin (fi) Galician: lavadora (gl) f German: Waschmaschine (de) f (washing machine), Spülmaschine (de) f (dishwasher) Hindi: धुलाई मशीन (dhulāī maśīn) Hungarian: mosó (hu), mosógép (hu), mosóberendezés Irish: inneall níocháin m (washing machine), meaisín níocháin m (washing machine) Italian: lavatrice (it) f (washing machine), lavastoviglie (it) f (dishwasher) Japanese: 洗濯機 (ja) (sentakuki) Korean: 세탁기 (ko) (setakgi) Maori: mīhini horoi rīhi (dishwasher), pūrere horoi rīhi (dishwasher), pūrere horoi kākahu (clothes washer/washing machine), kaihoroi (person) Norwegian: vaskemaskin (no) m, (dishwasher) oppvaskmaskin (no) m Occitan: maquina de lavar f Plautdietsch: Wauschmaschien f Portuguese: lavador m Sardinian: sabunadora Spanish: lavadora (es) f, lavarropa (es) m or f (laundry washer), lavarropas (es) m or f (laundry washer), lavavajilla m or f (dishwasher), lavavajillas (es) m or f (dishwasher) Swedish: tvättmaskin (sv) c Tagalog: labadora

person who washes for a living

Arabic: غِسَالَة f (ḡisāla) Bulgarian: мияч m (mijač) Catalan: bugader (ca) m, bugadera (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: 洗衣婦 / 洗衣妇 (xǐyīfù) (woman) Czech: pradlena (cs) f Dutch: wasserettejuffrouw f (launderette woman) Estonian: pesija, pesunaine (archaic, launderette), aknapesija (window washer) Finnish: pesijä (fi), pesijätär (woman), pyykkäri (fi) (clothes) French: laveur (fr) m, laveuse (fr) f German: Wäscher (de) m, Wäscherin (de) f, Waschfrau (de) f Greek: Ancient: φαιδρυντής m (phaidruntḗs), φαιδρύντρια f (phaidrúntria) Hungarian: mosó (hu), mosómunkás, mosónő (hu) Irish: niteoir m Japanese: 洗濯女 (sentaku-onna) Norwegian: vaskehjelp m, vaskekone m, vasker m Polish: praczka (pl) f Portuguese: lavadeiro (pt) m Russian: пра́чка (ru) f (práčka) Slovak: práčka f Spanish: lavandera (es) f Swedish: tvätterska (sv) c (woman) Tamil: சலவைக்காரர் c (calavaikkārar) Ukrainian: пра́ля (uk) f (prálja) Yiddish: וועשער m (vesher), וועשערין f (vesherin)

face cloth

Catalan: tovallola (ca) f Estonian: näorätik Finnish: pesulappu (fi) German: Waschlappen (de) m Hungarian: arctörlő Norwegian: ansiktsklut m Spanish: paño (es) m, toallita (es) f, manopla (es) f (glove)

Etymology 2

Unclear. First recorded in the 14th century.

Noun

washer (plural washers)

2. A flat piece of material, often of metal and often an annulus, placed beneath a nut or at some joint, to distribute pressure, alleviate friction, provide directionally differentiated friction (e.g. making the nut turn counter-clockwise only with difficulty), or prevent leakage.
   • 1955 February, “The Why and the Wherefore: The Belpaire Firebox”, in Railway Magazine, page 146:

     To ensure that the stays are steamtight, a nut is then screwed tight up to copper washers inside and out.

Derived terms

• Belleville washer
• lock washer
• sealing washer

Translations

flat annulus

Albanian: rondele f Arabic: حَلْقَة f (ḥalqa) Armenian: տափօղակ (hy) (tapʻōġak), շայբա (hy) (šayba) (colloquial) Azerbaijani: şayba Basque: zirrindola (eu) Belarusian: ша́йба f (šájba) Bulgarian: ша́йба (bg) f (šájba) Burmese: ဝါရှာ (my) (wahra) Catalan: volandera (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: 墊片 / 垫片 (zh) (diànpiàn), 墊圈 / 垫圈 (zh) (diànquān) Crimean Tatar: şayba Czech: podložka (cs) f Danish: spændeskive c, spændskive c Dutch: leertje (nl), ring (nl), schijf (nl) f Esperanto: ŝtopringo Estonian: seib Finnish: aluslevy (fi), aluslaatta; (colloquial) prikka (fi) French: rondelle (fr) f Georgian: საყელური (saq̇eluri) German: Scheibe (de) f, Unterlegscheibe (de) f Greek: ροδέλα (el) f (rodéla) Hausa: wāshā̀ f Hebrew: שייבה f Hindi: वाशर m (vāśar) Hungarian: csavaralátét (hu), alátétgyűrű (hu), alátét (hu), tömítőgyűrű (hu), alátétkarika (hu), alátéttárcsa, aljlemez (hu), párnalemez, biztosítólemez, csavar-alátétlemez Irish: leicneán m Italian: rondella (it) f Japanese: 座金 (ja) (zagane), ワッシャー (ja) (wasshā) Kazakh: тығырық (tyğyryq), шайба (şaiba) Khmer: អ្នកលាងចាន (anak leangchan) Korean: 와셔 (wasyeo) Kyrgyz: шайба (ky) (şayba) Lao: ຕຸ້ມ (tum) Latvian: paplāksne (lv) f Lithuanian: poveržlė f Macedonian: подлошка f (podloška) Middle English: clout Mongolian: шайб (šajb) Norman: rîndelle en fé f (metal) Norwegian: stoppskive m, skive (no) m Bokmål: skive (no) m or f Persian: واشر (fa) (vâšar) Polish: podkładka (pl) f Portuguese: arruela (pt) f, anilha (pt) Romanian: șaibă (ro) f Russian: ша́йба (ru) f (šájba) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: подлошка f Roman: podloška f Slovak: podložka f Slovene: podložka f Spanish: arandela (es) f, zapata (es) f (of leather or rubber), guacha (es) f, huacha (es) f, wacha (es) f, cuerito (es) m, vilorta f, herrón m Swedish: bricka (sv), packning (sv), skiva (sv) c Tagalog: sapatilya Tajik: шайба (šayba) Thai: แหวน (th) (wɛ̌ɛn) Tibetan: please add this translation if you can Turkish: rondela (tr) Turkmen: şaýba Ukrainian: ша́йба f (šájba) Urdu: واشر m (vāśar) Uyghur: شايبا (shayba) Uzbek: shayba (uz)

Verb

washer (third-person singular simple present washers, present participle washering, simple past and past participle washered)

1. (transitive) To fit (a mechanical device) with a washer.

Anagrams

• hawser, rewash, whares