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open wash

open wash is the alternative form of openwash.

Meaning of openwash

Verb

openwash (third-person singular simple present openwashes, present participle openwashing, simple past and past participle openwashed)

  1. To market something as open (without proprietary licensing) when it does not meet all the criteria of openness.
    • Over all, one cannot reduce the skills needed for collaboration to skills in joint publishing. On the other hand, the collaborative skills needed should still be knowledge skills, so the aim is to not 'openwash' the knowledge processes.2015, Kristian Møller, Moltke Martiny, “Embodying Investigations of Cerebral Palsy: A Case of Open Cognitive Science”, in Kristian Moltke Martiny, Allan Alfred Birkegaard Hansted, editors, Open Mind...

Noun

open wash (plural open washes)

  1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see open, wash.
    • The open washes are generally Wide and shallow with low ledging paralleling the water courses.1959, Don D. Fowler, James H. Gunnerson, Jesse David Jennings, The Glen Canyon Archeological Survey - Part 3, page 555

Forms of open wash

Verb
third-person singular presentopen washes
present participleopen washing
past participleopen washed
pastopen washed
Noun
pluralopen washes

Questions about open wash

What does open wash mean?
Open wash means used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see open, wash.
What is open wash the alternative form of?
Open wash is the alternative form of openwash.
What part of speech is open wash?
Open wash is a noun.
What is the plural of open wash?
The plural of open wash is open washes.

Words near open wash in the dictionary

  1. open verdicts
  2. open visit
  3. open visits
  4. open wagon
  5. open wagons
  6. open wash
  7. open washed
  8. open washes
  9. open washing
  10. open water
  11. open waters

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Adapted from Wiktionary: open wash (page history and authors); openwash (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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