| WAS | weekly activities summary; Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome |
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| WASP | Weber Advanced Spatial Perception [test] |
| Wass | Wasserman [reaction] |
| WAS | Ward Atmosphere Scale |
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| WAS | Wiscott-Aldrich Syndrome |
| WASP | WAS protein |
| WASP | Wiscott Aldrich Syndrome protein |
wasp
| wase | A bundle of straw, or other material, to relieve the pressure of burdens carried upon the head. Origin: Cf. Sw. Vase a sheaf. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| wash | 1. 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. "When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, . . . He took water and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person." (Matt. Xxvii. 24) 2. 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. "Fresh blown roses washed with dew." (Milton) "[The landscape] washed with a cold, gray mist." (Longfellow) 3. To waste or abrade by the force of water in motion; as, heavy rains wash a road or an embankment. 4. 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. "Arise, and be baptized, and wash away thy sins." (Acts xxii. 16) "The tide will wash you off." (Shak) 5. To cover with a thin or watery coat of colour; to tint lightly and thinly. 6. To overlay with a thin coat of metal; as, steel washed with silver. To wash gold, etc, to treat earth or gravel, or crushed ore, with water, in order to separate the gold or other metal, or metallic ore, through their superior gravity. To wash the hands of. See Hand. Origin: OE. Waschen, AS. Wascan; akin to D. Wasschen, G. Waschen, OHG. Wascan, Icel. & Sw. Vaska, Dan. Vaske, and perhaps to E. Water. 1. The act of washing; an ablution; a cleansing, wetting, or dashing with water; hence, a quantity, as of clothes, washed at once. 2. 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. "The Wash of Edmonton so gay." "These Lincoln washes have devoured them." (Shak) 3. Substances collected and deposited by the action of water; as, the wash of a sewer, of a river, etc. "The wash of pastures, fields, commons, and roads, where rain water hath a long time settled." (Mortimer) 4. Waste liquid, the refuse of food, the collection from washed dishes, etc, from a kitchen, often used as food for pigs. 5. The fermented wort before the spirit is extracted. A mixture of dunder, molasses, water, and scummings, used in the West Indies for distillation. 6. That with which anything is washed, or wetted, smeared, tinted, etc, upon the surface. Specifically: A liquid cosmetic for the complexion. A liquid dentifrice. A liquid preparation for the hair; as, a hair wash. A medical preparation in a liquid form for external application; a lotion. A thin coat of colour, especially. Water colour. A thin coat of metal laid on anything for beauty or preservation. 7. The blade of an oar, or the thin part which enters the water. The backward current or disturbed water caused by the action of oars, or of a steamer's screw or paddles, etc. 8. The flow, swash, or breaking of a body of water, as a wave; also, the sound of it. 9. Ten strikes, or bushels, of oysters. Wash ball, a ball of soap to be used in washing the hands or face. <chemistry> Wash barrel A bottle partially filled with some liquid through which gases are passed for the purpose of purifying them, especially by removing soluble constituents. A washing bottle. See Washing. Wash gilding. See Water gilding. Wash leather, split sheepskin dressed with oil, in imitation of chamois, or shammy, and used for dusting, cleaning glass or plate, etc.; also, alumed, or buff, leather for soldiers' belts. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| wash-bottle | A bottle with a tube passing to the bottom, through which gases are forced into water to purify them, a stoppered bottle with two tubes, one ending above and the other below a fluid, so that air blowing through the short tube forces liquid in a small stream from the free end of the long one; used for washing chemical apparatus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| washdish | 1. A washbowl. 2. <zoology> Same as Washerwoman. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| washed | <ornithology, zoology> Appearing as if overlaid with a thin layer of different colour; said of the colours of certain birds and insects. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| washed field technique | The cutting of cavity preparations in teeth utilizing a constant irrigant which is immediately removed from the mouth by means of a vacuum device. (05 Mar 2000) |
| washed sulfur | Sublimed sulfur macerated in diluted ammonia water to remove the free acid; same therapeutic uses as sublimed sulfur. (05 Mar 2000) |
| washer | 1. One who, or that which, washes. 2. A ring of metal, leather, or other material, or a perforated plate, used for various purposes, as around a bolt or screw to form a seat for the head or nut, or around a wagon axle to prevent endwise motion of the hub of the wheel and relieve friction, or in a joint to form a packing, etc. 3. A fitting, usually having a plug, applied to a cistern, tub, sink, or the like, and forming the outlet opening. 4. <zoology> The common raccoon. 5. <zoology> Same as Washerwoman. Origin: AS. Waescere. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| washerman's mark | An allergic contact dermatitis due to hypersensitivity to ingredients in laundry marking ink. Synonym: dhobie mark, washerman's mark. (05 Mar 2000) |
| washerwoman | 1. A woman who washes clothes, especially for hire, or for others. 2. <zoology> The pied wagtail; so called in allusion to its beating the water with its tail while tripping along the leaves of water plants. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| washerwoman's itch | An eczematous eruption of the hands and arms of washerwomen, dishwashers, and others whose hands are excessively immersed in water. (05 Mar 2000) |
| washing | 1. The act of one who washes; the act of cleansing with water; ablution. 2. The clothes washed, especially. At one time; a wash. <chemistry> Washing bear See Sodium carbonate, under Sodium. Washing stuff, any earthy deposit containing gold enough to pay for washing it; so called among gold miners. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| washing soda | Na2CO3-10H2O;used in the treatment of scaly skin diseases; otherwise rarely used in medicine because of its irritant action. Synonym: sal soda, soda, washing soda. (05 Mar 2000) |
| washout test | A means of estimating renal obstruction by the rate of disappearance of excreted radioactive material from the kidney. (05 Mar 2000) |
| wasite | <chemical> A variety of allanite from Sweden supposed to contain wasium. See: Wasium. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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Synonyms : Vespa Venoms, Vespid Venom, Wasp Venom, Venom, Vespid, Venom, Wasp, Venoms, Vespa, Venoms, Vespid, Venoms, Wasp
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Synonyms : Disposal, Fluid Waste, Disposals, Fluid Waste, Fluid Waste Disposal, Fluid Waste Disposals, Waste Disposals, Fluid
| wash |
clean with some chemical process cleanse (one's body) with soap and water cleanse with a cleaning agent, such as soap, and water; "Wash the towels, please!" move by or as if by water; "The swollen river washed away the footbridge" be capable of being washed; "Does this material wash?" admit to testing or proof; "This silly excuse won't wash in traffic court" a thin coat of water-base paint separate dirt or gravel from (precious minerals) the work of cleansing (usually with soap and water) the dry bed of an intermittent stream (as at the bottom of a canyon) apply a thin coating of paint, metal, etc., to washout: the erosive process of washing away soil or gravel by water (as from a roadway); "from the house they watched the washout of their newly seeded lawn by the water" remove by the application of water or other liquid and soap or some other cleaning agent; "he washed the dirt from his coat"; "The nurse washed away the blood"; "Can you wash away the spots on the windows?"; "he managed to wash out the stains" slipstream: the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller form by erosion; "The river washed a ravine into the mountainside" a watercolor made by applying a series of monochrome washes one over the other moisten: make moist; "The dew moistened the meadows" lave: wash or flow against; "the waves laved the shore" laundry: garments or white goods that can be cleaned by laundering to cleanse (itself or another animal) by licking; "The cat washes several times a day" any enterprise in which losses and gains cancel out; "at the end of the year the accounting department showed that it was a wash"
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| washout |
the channel or break produced by erosion of relatively soft soil by water; "it was several days after the storm before they could repair the washout and open the road" the erosive process of washing away soil or gravel by water (as from a roadway); "from the house they watched the washout of their newly seeded lawn by the water" flop: someone who is unsuccessful
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| wasp |
a white person of Anglo-Saxon ancestry who belongs to a Protestant denomination social or solitary hymenopterans typically having a slender body with the abdomen attached by a narrow stalk and having a formidable sting
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| waste |
spend thoughtlessly; throw away; "He wasted his inheritance on his insincere friends"; "You squandered the opportunity to get and advanced degree" use inefficiently or inappropriately; "waste heat"; "waste a joke on an unappreciative audience" get rid of; "We waste the dirty water by channeling it into the sewer" run off as waste; "The water wastes back into the ocean" neutralize: get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing; "The mafia liquidated the informer"; "the double agent was neutralized" any materials unused and rejected as worthless or unwanted; "they collect the waste once a week"; "much of the waste material is carried off in the sewers" consume: spend extravagantly; "waste not, want not" pine away: lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief; "After her husband died, she just pined away" useless or profitless activity; using or expending or consuming thoughtlessly or carelessly; "if the effort brings no compensating gain it is a waste"; "mindless dissipation of natural resources" cause to grow thin or weak; "The treatment emaciated him" thriftlessness: the trait of wasting resources; "a life characterized by thriftlessness and waste"; "the wastefulness of missed opportunities" barren: an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation; "the barrens of central Africa"; "the trackless wastes of the desert" lay waste to: devastate or ravage; "The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion" desert: located in a dismal or remote area; desolate; "a desert island"; "a godforsaken wilderness crossroads"; "a wild stretch of land"; "waste places" (law) reduction in the value of an estate caused by act or neglect waste away; "Political prisoners are wasting away in many prisons all over the world"
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| Wassermann |
German bacteriologist who developed a diagnostic test for syphilis (1866-1925) Wassermann test: a blood test to detect syphilis; a complement fixation test is used to detect antibodies to the syphilis organism treponema; a positive reaction indicates the presence of antibodies and therefore syphilis infection
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| WAS | the work of cleansing (usually with soap and water) |
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| WAS | (informal) any enterprise in which losses and gains cancel out |
| WAS | garments or white goods that can be cleaned by laundering |
| WAS | a watercolor made by applying a series of monochrome washes one over the other |
| WAS | a thin coat of water-base paint |
| WAS | (western United States) the dry bed of an intermittent stream (as at the bottom of a canyon) |
| WAS | the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller |
| WAS | to cleanse (itself or another animal) by licking, as of a cat |
| WAS | cleanse (one's body) with soap and water |
| WAS | wash or flow against |
| WAS | make moist |
| WAS | form by erosion |
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