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Wash

Topics referred to by the same term

Wash or the Wash may refer to:

01Industry and sanitation

  • WASH or WaSH, "water, sanitation and hygiene", three related public health issues
  • Wash (distilling), the liquid produced by the fermentation step in the production of distilled beverages
  • Lime wash or whitewash, a low-cost industrial paint

02Places

England

  • The Wash, the square-mouthed estuary on the northwest margin of East Anglia in England
  • Wash, Derbyshire, a hamlet in Derbyshire, England

United States

03People

04Art, entertainment, and media

  • WASH (FM), a radio station serving the Washington, D.C. area
  • Wash (visual arts), a technique of applying a semi-transparent layer of color

Film and television

Music

05Topography

  • Wash, an area of washland intended to be flooded when river levels are high
  • Arroyo (watercourse) or wash, a dry creek bed or gulch that temporarily fills with water after a heavy rain
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