Wadi vs. Wash

Wadi (Arabic: وَادِي‎, romanized: wādī), alternatively wād (Arabic: وَاد‎), North African Arabic Oued, is the Arabic term traditionally referring to a valley. In some instances, it may refer to a dry (ephemeral) riverbed that contains water only when heavy rain occurs.

clean with water and, typically, soap or detergent

A valley, gully, or streambed in northern Africa and southwest Asia that remains dry except during the rainy season.

(of flowing water) carry (someone or something) in a particular direction

A stream that flows through such a channel.

brush with a thin coat of dilute paint or ink

An oasis.

seem convincing or genuine

A valley, gully, or stream bed in northern Africa and southwest Asia that remains dry except during the rainy season.

an act of washing something or an instance of being washed

gully or streambed in northern Africa and the Middle East that remains dry except during rainy season

the water or air disturbed by a moving boat or aircraft

an inlet of the North Sea on the east coast of England between Norfolk and Lincolnshire.

a medicinal or cleansing solution

a layer of paint or metal spread thinly on a surface

silt or gravel carried by a stream or river and deposited as sediment.

kitchen slops and other food waste fed to pigs.

malt fermenting in preparation for distillation.

a situation or result that is of no benefit to either of two opposing sides

To cleanse, using water or other liquid, usually with soap, detergent, or bleach, by immersing, dipping, rubbing, or scrubbing

To soak, rinse out, and remove (dirt or stain) with water or other liquid

To make moist or wet; drench

To flow over, against, or past

To carry, erode, remove, or destroy by the action of moving water

To rid of corruption or guilt; cleanse or purify

To cover or coat with a watery layer of paint or other coloring substance.

To purify (a gas) by passing through or over a liquid, as to remove soluble matter.

To pass a solvent, such as distilled water, through (a precipitate).

To separate constituents of (an ore) by immersion in or agitation with water.

To cause to undergo a swirling action

To cleanse something in or by means of water or other liquid.

To undergo washing without fading or other damage

(Informal) To hold up under examination; be convincing

To flow, sweep, or beat with a characteristic lapping sound

To be carried away, removed, or drawn by the action of water.

The act or process of washing or cleansing.

A quantity of articles washed or intended for washing

Waste liquid; swill.

Fermented liquid from which liquor is distilled.

A preparation or product used in washing or coating.

A cosmetic or medicinal liquid, such as a mouthwash.

A thin layer of watercolor or India ink spread on a drawing.

A light tint or hue

A rush or surge of water or waves.

The sound of this rush or surge.

Removal or erosion of soil by the action of moving water.

A deposit of recently eroded debris.

Low or marshy ground washed by tidal waters.

A stretch of shallow water.

Western US The dry bed of a stream.

Turbulence in air or water caused by the motion or action of an oar, propeller, jet, or airfoil.

(Informal) An activity, action, or enterprise that yields neither marked gain nor marked loss

Used for washing.

Being such that washing is possible; washable.

To clean with water.

(transitive) To move or erode by the force of water in motion.

(mining) To separate valuable material (such as gold) from worthless material by the action of flowing water.

(intransitive) To clean oneself with water.

(transitive) To cover with water or any liquid; to wet; to fall on and moisten.

(intransitive) To move with a lapping or swashing sound; to lap or splash.

(intransitive) To be eroded or carried away by the action of water.

To be cogent, convincing; to withstand critique.

(intransitive) To bear without injury the operation of being washed.

(intransitive) 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.

To cover with a thin or watery coat of colour; to tint lightly and thinly.

To overlay with a thin coat of metal.

(transitive) To cause dephosphorization of (molten pig iron) by adding substances containing iron oxide, and sometimes manganese oxide.

(transitive) To pass (a gas or gaseous mixture) through or over a liquid for the purpose of purifying it, especially by removing soluble constituents.

The process or an instance of washing or being washed by water or other liquid.

A liquid used for washing.

A lotion or other liquid with medicinal or hygienic properties.

The quantity of clothes washed at a time.

(arts) A smooth and translucent painting created using a paintbrush holding a large amount of solvent and a small amount of paint.

The breaking of waves on the shore; the onwards rush of shallow water towards a beach.

The bow wave, wake, or vortex of an object moving in a fluid, in particular:

The bow wave or wake of a moving ship, or the vortex from its screws.

The turbulence left in the air by a moving airplane.

The backward current or disturbed water caused by the action of oars, or of a steamer's screw or paddles, etc.

(nautical) The blade of an oar.

Ground washed away to the sea or a river.

A piece of ground washed by the action of water, or sometimes covered and sometimes left dry; the shallowest part of a river, or arm of the sea; also, a bog; a marsh.

A shallow body of water.

In arid and semi-arid regions, the normally dry bed of an intermittent or ephemeral stream; an arroyo or wadi.

A situation in which losses and gains or advantages and disadvantages are equivalent; a situation in which there is no net change.

A fictitious kind of sale of stock or other securities between parties of one interest, or by a broker who is both buyer and seller, and who minds his own interest rather than that of his clients.

Waste liquid, the refuse of food, the collection from washed dishes, etc., from a kitchen, often used as food for pigs; pigwash.

In distilling, the fermented wort before the spirit is extracted.

A mixture of dunder, molasses, water, and scummings, used in the West Indies for distillation.

A thin coat of paint or metal laid on anything for beauty or preservation.

Ten strikes, or bushels, of oysters.

(architecture) The upper surface of a member or material when given a slope to shed water; hence, a structure or receptacle shaped so as to receive and carry off water.

(television) A lighting effect that fills a scene with a chosen colour.

(stagecraft) A lighting fixture that can cast a wide beam of light to evenly fill an area with light, as opposed to a spotlight.

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.

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.

To waste or abrade by the force of water in motion; as, heavy rains wash a road or an embankment.

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.

To cover with a thin or watery coat of color; to tint lightly and thinly.

To overlay with a thin coat of metal; as, steel washed with silver.

To cause dephosphorisation of (molten pig iron) by adding substances containing iron oxide, and sometimes manganese oxide.

To pass (a gas or gaseous mixture) through or over a liquid for the purpose of purifying it, esp. by removing soluble constituents.

To perform the act of ablution.

To clean anything by rubbing or dipping it in water; to perform the business of cleansing clothes, ore, etc., in water.

To bear without injury the operation of being washed; as, some calicoes do not wash.

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.

To use washes, as for the face or hair.

To move with a lapping or swashing sound, or the like; to lap; splash; as, to hear the water washing.

to be accepted as true or valid; to be proven true by subsequent evidence; - usually used in the negative; as, his alibi won't wash.

The act of washing; an ablution; a cleansing, wetting, or dashing with water; hence, a quantity, as of clothes, washed at once.

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.

Substances collected and deposited by the action of water; as, the wash of a sewer, of a river, etc.

Waste liquid, the refuse of food, the collection from washed dishes, etc., from a kitchen, often used as food for pigs.

The fermented wort before the spirit is extracted.

That with which anything is washed, or wetted, smeared, tinted, etc., upon the surface.

A liquid cosmetic for the complexion.

The blade of an oar, or the thin part which enters the water.

A liquid dentifrice.

The flow, swash, or breaking of a body of water, as a wave; also, the sound of it.

A liquid preparation for the hair; as, a hair wash.

Ten strikes, or bushels, of oysters.

A medical preparation in a liquid form for external application; a lotion.

Gravel and other rock débris transported and deposited by running water; coarse alluvium.

A thin coat of color, esp. water color.

The dry bed of an intermittent stream, sometimes at the bottom of a cañon; as, the Amargosa wash, Diamond wash; - called also dry wash.

A thin coat of metal applied in a liquid form on any object, for beauty or preservation; - called also washing.

The upper surface of a member or material when given a slope to shed water. Hence, a structure or receptacle shaped so as to receive and carry off water, as a carriage wash in a stable.

an action or situation in which the gains and losses are equal, or closely compensate each other.

the disturbance of the air left behind in the wake of a moving airplane or one of its parts.

Washy; weak.

Capable of being washed without injury; washable; as, wash goods.

a thin coat of water-base paint

the work of cleansing (usually with soap and water)

the dry bed of an intermittent stream (as at the bottom of a canyon)

the erosive process of washing away soil or gravel by water (as from a roadway);

the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller

a watercolor made by applying a series of monochrome washes one over the other

garments or white goods that can be cleaned by laundering

any enterprise in which losses and gains cancel out;

clean with some chemical process

cleanse (one's body) with soap and water

cleanse with a cleaning agent, such as soap, and water;

move by or as if by water;

be capable of being washed;

admit to testing or proof;

separate dirt or gravel from (precious minerals)

apply a thin coating of paint, metal, etc., to

remove by the application of water or other liquid and soap or some other cleaning agent;

form by erosion;

make moist;

wash or flow against;

to cleanse (itself or another animal) by licking;