What does dishwasher mean?
Word: Dishwasher
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: Dishwasher means a machine that washes plates, cups and spoons. It can also mean a person whose job is washing dishes.
How do you spell dishwasher?
Syllables: dish - wash - er
Tricky part: This compound word joins dish and washer with no space. Each half has its own sh, and children sometimes drop one h or one s.
Watch out for: dishwaser, dichwasher, diswasher
Memory tip: Two short words make one long one: dish + washer. Check that both halves keep their sh.
Dishwasher in a sentence
Example 1: After the party, Mumma loaded the dishwasher with steel plates.
Example 2: Our dishwasher beeps three times when it is done.
Example 3: The hotel hired a dishwasher to help in its kitchen during the wedding season.
Fun Fact
An American woman named Josephine Cochrane received a patent for one of the first working dishwashers in 1886.
Practise the CREST Way
Word Makeup
Choose the correctly spelt compound word:
a) deshwasher
b) dishwasher
c) dishwashir
d) dishwosher
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b) dishwasher. Dish keeps its i, wash keeps its a, and the word ends in -er.
Mingle-Mangle
Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:
wsrdheiahs
a) dishwasehr
b) dishwashre
c) dishwasher
d) dishawsher
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c) dishwasher. Dish, wash and er are the three pieces in this jumble.
Word Cookie
Find the extra letter in the word:
dishewasher
a) i
b) w
c) h
d) e
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d) e. Dish runs straight into washer with no letter between them.
Spell-o-Spell
Choose the incorrectly spelt word:
a) refrigerater
b) cupboard
c) cutlery
d) dishwasher
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a) refrigerater. Refrigerator ends in -or; dishwasher, cupboard and cutlery are all spelt right.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What does a dishwasher need to work?
a) water and electricity
b) sunlight and wind
c) gas and firewood
d) petrol and oil
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a) water and electricity
2. In which sentence is a dishwasher a person, not a machine?
a) Please load the cups into the dishwasher.
b) The dishwasher at the dhaba scrubbed every pot by hand.
c) The dishwasher stopped because the door was open.
d) The new dishwasher came in a big box.
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b) The dishwasher at the dhaba scrubbed every pot by hand.
