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Do The Dishes

Definition: Do The Dishes

Do The Dishes

Verb

1. Wash dishes; "I cook and my husband washes up after dinner".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

Synonym: Do The Dishes

Synonym: wash up (v). (additional references)

Crosswords: Do The Dishes

English words defined with "do the dishes": cheerily ♦ pleasantly ♦ sunnily. (references)

Modern Usage: Do The Dishes

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	So let me do the dishes in the kitchen sink Put you to bed when you've had too much to drink. (The Wedding Singer; writing credit: Tim Herlihy)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Use in Literature: Do The Dishes

Title	Author	Quote
Grapes of Wrath	Steinbeck, John	Ma hesitated before she started to do the dishes.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Spoken Usage: Do The Dishes

Speaker	Phrase(s)
Gary Condit	You know, there's good and bad about that watch box thing. I can't throw the trash away at my house anymore. I happen to do the dishes, but I can't throw the trash away.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Modern Translation: Do The Dishes

Language		Translations for "do the dishes"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Czech		umýt nádobí (wash the dishes). (various references)

Hungarian		elmosogat (to do the dishes, to wash up, to wash up the dishes, wash the dishes). (various references)

Pig Latin		oday ethay ishesday

Turkish		bulaşıkları yıkamak (wash the dishes, wash up the dishes), bulaşık yıkamak (do the washing, wash dishes, wash up dishes). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: Do The Dishes

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "d-d-e-e-h-h-i-o-s-s-t"
	-2 letters: shoddiest.
	-3 letters: desisted, shoddies.
	-4 letters: ethoses, heisted, hessite, hoisted, soddies, teddies, toddies.
	-5 letters: deists, desist, dhotis, didoes, dieses, dieted, diodes, dished, dishes, dissed, doited, dossed, eddies, eddoes, edited, heists, hissed, histed, hoised, hoises, hoists, hosted, oddest, oddish, odists, seised, setose, sheesh, sheets, shiest, shotes, steeds, theses, thesis, todies, toshes, tossed.
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Alternative Orthography: Do The Dishes

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

44 6F 54 68 65 44 69 73 68 65 73

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000100 01101111 00100000 01010100 01101000 01100101 00100000 01000100 01101001 01110011 01101000 01100101 01110011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#111 &#32 &#84 &#104 &#101 &#32 &#68 &#105 &#115 &#104 &#101 &#115

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 006F 0054 0068 0065 0044 0069 0073 0068 0065 0073

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

388125474712387585747185

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern

5. Quotations: Fiction
6. Quotations: Spoken
7. Translations: Modern
8. Anagrams

9. Orthography
10. Bibliography

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