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An electrical appliance used for drying clothes, usually by tumbling them in a heated rotating drum.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
a dryer that dries clothes wet from washing
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: clothes drier
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: dryer, drier, white goods
Narrower terms: mangle, spin dryer, spin drier, tumble-dryer, tumble drier, wringer
No etymology was provided for this word.
Across languages
Translations
41 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Arabic:
مُجَفِّف مَلَابِس
(mujaffif malābis)
— electrical appliance used for drying clothes, usually by tumbling them in a heated rotating drum
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Arabic:
نَشَّافة
(naššāfa)
— electrical appliance used for drying clothes, usually by tumbling them in a heated rotating drum
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Azerbaijani:
quruducu maşın
— electrical appliance used for drying clothes, usually by tumbling them in a heated rotating drum
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Azerbaijani:
paltarqurudan
— electrical appliance used for drying clothes, usually by tumbling them in a heated rotating drum
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Catalan:
assecadora
— electrical appliance used for drying clothes, usually by tumbling them in a heated rotating drum
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Chinese Mandarin:
烘乾機 /烘干机
(hōnggānjī)
— electrical appliance used for drying clothes, usually by tumbling them in a heated rotating drum
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Chinese Mandarin:
乾衣機 /干衣机
(gānyījī)
— electrical appliance used for drying clothes, usually by tumbling them in a heated rotating drum
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Dutch:
wasdroger
— electrical appliance used for drying clothes, usually by tumbling them in a heated rotating drum
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Esperanto:
sekigaŭtomato
— electrical appliance used for drying clothes, usually by tumbling them in a heated rotating drum
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Esperanto:
sekigilo
— electrical appliance used for drying clothes, usually by tumbling them in a heated rotating drum
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Finnish:
pyykinkuivain
— electrical appliance used for drying clothes, usually by tumbling them in a heated rotating drum
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Finnish:
pyykinkuivaaja
— electrical appliance used for drying clothes, usually by tumbling them in a heated rotating drum
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Finnish:
vaatekuivain
— electrical appliance used for drying clothes, usually by tumbling them in a heated rotating drum
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French:
sèche-linge
— electrical appliance used for drying clothes, usually by tumbling them in a heated rotating drum
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Galician:
secadora
— electrical appliance used for drying clothes, usually by tumbling them in a heated rotating drum
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German:
Wäschetrockner
— electrical appliance used for drying clothes, usually by tumbling them in a heated rotating drum
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Hebrew:
מייבש כביסה
— electrical appliance used for drying clothes, usually by tumbling them in a heated rotating drum
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Hungarian:
ruhaszárítógép
— electrical appliance used for drying clothes, usually by tumbling them in a heated rotating drum
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Icelandic:
þurrkari
— electrical appliance used for drying clothes, usually by tumbling them in a heated rotating drum
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Italian:
asciugatrice
— electrical appliance used for drying clothes, usually by tumbling them in a heated rotating drum
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Japanese:
衣類乾燥機
(irui kansōki)
— electrical appliance used for drying clothes, usually by tumbling them in a heated rotating drum
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Japanese:
乾燥機
(kansōki)
— electrical appliance used for drying clothes, usually by tumbling them in a heated rotating drum
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Khmer:
ម៉ាស៊ីនសម្ងួតខោអាវ
(maasiin sɑmnguət khao ʼaaw)
— electrical appliance used for drying clothes, usually by tumbling them in a heated rotating drum
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Korean:
빨래 건조기
(ppallae geonjogi)
— electrical appliance used for drying clothes, usually by tumbling them in a heated rotating drum
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Korean:
건조기
(geonjogi)
— electrical appliance used for drying clothes, usually by tumbling them in a heated rotating drum
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Latin:
machina siccatoria volubilis
— electrical appliance used for drying clothes, usually by tumbling them in a heated rotating drum
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Persian:
رختخشککن
— electrical appliance used for drying clothes, usually by tumbling them in a heated rotating drum
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Polish:
suszarka do ubrań
— electrical appliance used for drying clothes, usually by tumbling them in a heated rotating drum
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Portuguese:
secadora de roupas
— electrical appliance used for drying clothes, usually by tumbling them in a heated rotating drum
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Russian:
суши́льная маши́на
(sušílʹnaja mašína)
— electrical appliance used for drying clothes, usually by tumbling them in a heated rotating drum
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Russian:
суши́лка
(sušílka)
— electrical appliance used for drying clothes, usually by tumbling them in a heated rotating drum
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Spanish:
secadora
— electrical appliance used for drying clothes, usually by tumbling them in a heated rotating drum
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Spanish:
secarropas
— electrical appliance used for drying clothes, usually by tumbling them in a heated rotating drum
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Tamil:
துணி உலர்த்தி
(tuṇi ulartti)
— electrical appliance used for drying clothes, usually by tumbling them in a heated rotating drum
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Tibetan:
དུག་སློག་སྐམ་ཡག་འཕྲུལ་འཁོར
(dug slog skam yag 'phrul 'khor)
— electrical appliance used for drying clothes, usually by tumbling them in a heated rotating drum
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Turkish:
çamaşır kurutma makinesi
— electrical appliance used for drying clothes, usually by tumbling them in a heated rotating drum
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Turkish:
kurutma makinesi
— electrical appliance used for drying clothes, usually by tumbling them in a heated rotating drum
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Urdu:
آلہ خشکاری
— electrical appliance used for drying clothes, usually by tumbling them in a heated rotating drum
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Vietnamese:
máy sấy
— electrical appliance used for drying clothes, usually by tumbling them in a heated rotating drum
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Welsh:
sychydd
— electrical appliance used for drying clothes, usually by tumbling them in a heated rotating drum
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Welsh:
sychwr
— electrical appliance used for drying clothes, usually by tumbling them in a heated rotating drum