Dishwasher

Quick meaning: Dishwasher is a noun meaning A machine for washing dishes.

Meaning

A machine for washing dishes.

More Meanings

1. Someone who washes dishes, especially one hired to wash dishes in a restaurant.
2. (UK, dialect, Wiltshire, Cornwall) A European bird, the wagtail.
3. (Australia) A bird, the restless flycatcher (Myiagra inquieta).

Example Sentences

load the dishwasher

The chefs never cooked before, the cashiers never cashiered before, the dishwashers never dishwashed before, the waitresses never waitressed before, and the managers never managed before.

Plus, there are about a thousand things that also could, or should get done in that time: a load of laundry, loading the dishwasher, tidying the kitchen, picking up a gagillion toys and blankies off the ground, restocking the change tables.

The country-people say that the "tinner," that is the "dishwasher" or water-wagtail, is scarcer than it was before the blizzard, which must have caused the death of tens of thousands of birds. They call it the tinner, because it builds its nest in the mouth of the old mine-shafts.

Word Forms

• dishwashers

Synonyms for dishwasher

Depending on context, synonyms include dishy.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include dishwashing, washer, tableware, crockery, dish, plunger.

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