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# laundry

«laundry» in Mova's school dictionary: **Clothes, sheets and towels that need washing or have just…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (laundry — no plural; a laundry, laundries for the place)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Clothes, sheets and towels that need washing or have just been washed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/laundry/#m1)

2) The job of washing them. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/laundry/#m2)

3) A room or a business where clothes are washed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/laundry/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life, children help with the laundry: sorting colours from whites, hanging washing out, folding and putting it away. In safety lessons, laundry detergent pods and powders are poisonous — never touch or eat them, and keep them away from small children. In science, washing shows how soap removes grease and how wet clothes dry by evaporation. Phrases: «do the laundry», «laundry basket», «dirty laundry», «laundry room».

### examples

- Put your dirty socks in the laundry basket. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/laundry/#x1)
- Dad does the laundry on Sundays. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/laundry/#x2)
- Help me fold the clean laundry. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/laundry/#x3)
- The laundry dried quickly on the line in the sun. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/laundry/#x4)
- Laundry pods look like sweets but are poisonous. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/laundry/#x5)
- Our flats have a shared laundry in the basement. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/laundry/#x6)
- Sort the laundry into dark and light colours. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/laundry/#x7)
- The hotel sends the sheets to a laundry. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/laundry/#x8)

### note

Uncountable for the clothes: «a lot of laundry», not «laundries». Similar: «washing» (British). Don't air dirty laundry in public means don't talk about private family problems to everyone.

### In the corpora

- [Laundry means sorting colours, reading labels and choosing the right temperature; a red sock in a white wash turns everything pink.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/38-looking-after-yourself-and-a-home/8/)
- [Laundry pods and dishwasher tablets are poisonous and must be kept away from small children.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/33-medicines-and-cleaning-products/24/)
- [Setting the table and folding laundry are small jobs that save time for everyone.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/102-gratitude-helping-at-home-privacy/8/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «laundry» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/laundry/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.