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A wash is the act of cleaning. I wash my hands in soapy water. See also: hand washing
A wash is a light covering of watercolor on a painting. When painting three-dimensional models, they can be used to add shading.
A wash is a small river or stream. Typically (at least in rural parts of the central United States, and the especially the deserts of the Southwest) the term wash is used to reference a stream that only carries water when there is rain, and usually dries quickly. The term does not refer to a section of land that gets wet during heavy rains, which is a flood plain.
There is a common American (also english?) phrase of, 'it's a wash'. This means the process of coming to be on equal footing with another party. If person A gives person B one dollar at the same time that person B gives person A a dollar, 'it's a wash'.
A synonym for mash, a mixture of sugar and/or other carbohydratesCarbohydrates (literally hydrates of carbon are chemical compounds that act as the primary biological means of storing or consuming energy, other forms being fat and protein. Relatively complex carbohydrates are known as polysaccharides. Carbohydrates are (such as grains, corn, potatoes, etc), water, and yeastSaccharomyces cerevisiae is a yeast used in both baking and brewing. Yeast are a group of unicellular fungi a few species of which are commonly used to leaven bread and ferment alcoholic beverages. Most yeasts belong to the division Ascomycota. A few yeas. The resulting mixture is fermentedIn its strictest sense fermentation is the energy-yielding anaerobic metabolic breakdown of a nutrient molecule, such as glucose, without net oxidation. Fermentation yields lactate, acetic acid, ethanol, or some other simple product. Fermentation is also and then usually distilled to make vodka, whiskey, or rum.