核心畫面
Picture whatever gets the dirty plates clean. English builds the word — dish plus washer, "the thing that washes dishes" — and then lets it point either at the machine in the kitchen or at the person doing the same job at the back of a restaurant.
可以想成：把髒盤子洗乾淨的那個東西。這個字組得很直白——dish（盤子）加上 washer（洗的東西或洗的人），合起…更多收起
可以想成：把髒盤子洗乾淨的那個東西。這個字組得很直白——dish（盤子）加上 washer（洗的東西或洗的人），合起來就是「洗盤子的」。至於指的是廚房裡那台機器，還是餐廳後場做同一件事的那個人，就看上下文。英文的 -er 本來就同時能造出工具和職業，這是很典型的一個例子。原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
dishwashernoun/ˈdɪʃˌwɒʃə/
- 1
A machine for washing dishes.
- load the dishwasher
- Plus, there are about a thousand things that also could, or should get done in that time: a load of laundry, loading the dishwasher, tidying the kitchen, picking up a gagillion toys and blankies off the ground, restocking the change tables.
- 2
Someone who washes dishes, especially one hired to wash dishes in a restaurant.
- The chefs never cooked before, the cashiers never cashiered before, the dishwashers never dishwashed before, the waitresses never waitressed before, and the managers never managed before.
- 3
dialectalA European bird, the wagtail.
- The country-people say that the "tinner," that is the "dishwasher" or water-wagtail, is scarcer than it was before the blizzard, which must have caused the death of tens of thousands of birds. They call it the tinner, because it builds its nest in the mouth of the old mine-shafts.
- 4
A bird, the restless flycatcher (Myiagra inquieta).
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。