dishwasher

plural dishwashers

1. A machine for washing dishes.

   load the dishwasher

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   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.

   2011, Karen Savage, Instructions Not Included: The Adventures of New Motherhood

   Conditions inside dishwashers not only enable selected fungal species to survive, but also promote the selective enrichment of particular polyextremotolerant fungi that can tolerate low and high pH, temperatures up to 60°C or 80°C, occasional dehydration and high organic loads, high concentrations of NaCl, and mechanical stress due to water ejectors.

   2016 February 12, “The Black Yeast Exophiala dermatitidis and Other Selected Opportunistic Human Fungal Pathogens Spread from Dishwashers to Kitchens”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

2. Someone who washes dishes, especially one hired to wash dishes in a restaurant.

   Scurrying in the background were the dishwashers who cleaned up every greasy pan, dirty spatula, and sticky bottle.

   2022, Melissa Clark, Dinner in One, →ISBN, page 14

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   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.

   2007, Thomas Quealy, M + M

   Synonyms: dishy

3. CornwallUKdialectalA European bird, the wagtail.

   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.

   2022, John Coulson Tregarthen, Wild Life at the Land's End

4. AustraliaA bird, the restless flycatcher (Myiagra inquieta).