washing machine : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: washing machine	by the DICT Development Group
4 results for washing machine
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
washing machine n a home appliance for washing clothes and linens automatically Synonym(s): washer, automatic washer, washing machine
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Washing \Wash"ing\, n. 1. The act of one who washes; the act of cleansing with water; ablution. 2. The clothes washed, esp. at one time; a wash. {Washing bear} (Zo[94]l.), the raccoon. {Washing bottle} (Chem.), a bottle fitted with glass tubes passing through the cork, so that on blowing into one of the tubes a stream of water issuing from the other may be directed upon anything to be washed or rinsed, as a precipitate upon a filter, etc. {Washing fluid}, a liquid used as a cleanser, and consisting usually of alkaline salts resembling soaps in their action. {Washing machine}, a machine for washing; specifically, a machine for washing clothes. {Washing soda}. (Chem.) See {Sodium carbonate}, under {Sodium}. {Washing stuff}, any earthy deposit containing gold enough to pay for washing it; -- so called among gold miners.
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
washing machine n. 1. Old-style 14-inch hard disks in floor-standing cabinets. So called because of the size of the cabinet and the `top-loading' access to the media packs -- and, of course, they were always set on `spin cycle'. The washing-machine idiom transcends language barriers; it is even used in Russian hacker jargon. See also {walking drives}. The thick channel cables connecting these were called `bit hoses' (see {hose}, sense 3). 2. [CMU] A machine used exclusively for {washing software}. CMU has clusters of these.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
washing machine An old-style 14-inch {hard disk} in a floor-standing cabinet. So called because of the size of the cabinet and the "top-loading" access to the media packs - and, of course, they were always set on "spin cycle". The thick channel cables connecting these were called "{bit hoses}". The washing-machine idiom transcends language barriers; it is even used in Russian hacker jargon. See also {walking drives}. (1995-02-15)