washing machine

An appliance used to wash clothes. The term applies primarily to machines that use water as opposed to dry cleaning or ultrasonic cleaners. The user adds laundry detergent, sold in liquid or powder form, to the wash water.

See also

• top-load washing machine
• clothes dryer
• laundromat
• laundry

The following tags implicate this tag: top-load_washing_machine (learn more).