launder
English
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Etymology
[edit]Contracted from Middle English lavender, from Old French lavandiere, from Late Latin lavandera, from Latin lavō (“I wash”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈlɔːndə/
- (some accents) IPA(key): /ˈlɑːndə(ɹ)/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈlɔndɚ/
- (cot–caught merger) IPA(key): /ˈlɑndɚ/
Audio (General Australian): (file) - Rhymes: -ɔːndə(ɹ), -ɑːndə(ɹ)
Noun
[edit]launder (plural launders)
- (obsolete) A washerwoman or washerman.
- (mining) A trough used by miners to receive powdered ore from the box where it is beaten, or for carrying water to the stamps, or other apparatus for comminuting (sorting) the ore.
- A trough or channel carrying water to the wheel of a watermill.
- Synonym: inlayer
- A gutter (for rainwater).
Synonyms
[edit]- (washerwoman): launderer, laundress, washerwoman
Translations
[edit]washerwoman — see washerwoman
trough used by miners to carry material
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gutter for rainwater — see gutter
Verb
[edit]launder (third-person singular simple present launders, present participle laundering, simple past and past participle laundered)
- To wash; to wash, and to smooth with a flatiron or mangle; to wash and iron.
- (obsolete) To lave; to wet.
- 1609, William Shakespeare, “A Louers Complaint”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:
- Oft did she heave her napkin to her eyne, / Which on it had conceited characters, / Laundering the silken figures in the brine
- (money) To disguise the source of (ill-gotten wealth) by various means.
- (programming, transitive) To obtain a pointer to an object created in storage occupied by an existing object of the same type, even if it has const or reference members.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]to wash and iron
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to disguise the source of
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Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “launder”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
- “launder”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
Anagrams
[edit]Middle English
[edit]Noun
[edit]launder
- Alternative form of lavender
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