"clothes dryer" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: clothes dryers [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} clothes dryer (plural clothes dryers)
  1. An electrical appliance used for drying clothes, usually by tumbling them in a heated rotating drum. Wikipedia link: clothes dryer Synonyms: clothes drier Related terms: tumble dryer Translations (electrical appliance used for drying clothes, usually by tumbling them in a heated rotating drum): مُجَفِّف مَلَابِس (mujaffif malābis) [masculine] (Arabic), نَشَّافة (naššāfa) [Hijazi-Arabic] (Arabic), assecadora (Catalan), 烘乾機 (Chinese Mandarin), 烘干机 (hōnggānjī) (Chinese Mandarin), 乾衣機 (Chinese Mandarin), 干衣机 (gānyījī) (Chinese Mandarin), wasdroger (Dutch), pyykinkuivain (Finnish), pyykinkuivaaja (Finnish), vaatekuivain (Finnish), sèche-linge [masculine] (French), secadora (Galician), Wäschetrockner (German), מייבש כביסה (Hebrew), asciugatrice (Italian), 衣類乾燥機 (irui kansōki) (alt: いるいかんそうき) (Japanese), 乾燥機 (kansōki) (alt: かんそうき) (Japanese), ម៉ាស៊ីនសម្ងួតខោអាវ (maasiin sɑmnguət khao ʼaaw) (Khmer), 빨래 건조기 (ppallae geonjogi) (Korean), 건조기 (geonjogi) (Korean), machina siccatoria volubilis (Latin), رختخشککن (Persian), suszarka do ubrań (Polish), secadora de roupas (Portuguese), суши́льная маши́на (sušílʹnaja mašína) [feminine] (Russian), суши́лка (sušílka) (alt: для белья́) [feminine] (Russian), secadora [feminine] (Spanish), secarropas [masculine] (Spanish), துணி உலர்த்தி (tuṇi ulartti) (Tamil), དུག་སློག་སྐམ་ཡག་འཕྲུལ་འཁོར (dug slog skam yag 'phrul 'khor) (Tibetan), çamaşır kurutma makinesi (Turkish), kurutma makinesi (Turkish), آلہ خشکاری (Urdu), máy sấy (Vietnamese)

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          "code": "he",
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          "sense": "electrical appliance used for drying clothes, usually by tumbling them in a heated rotating drum",
          "word": "מייבש כביסה"
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          "word": "དུག་སློག་སྐམ་ཡག་འཕྲུལ་འཁོར"
        },
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          "code": "tr",
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          "sense": "electrical appliance used for drying clothes, usually by tumbling them in a heated rotating drum",
          "word": "kurutma makinesi"
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          "sense": "electrical appliance used for drying clothes, usually by tumbling them in a heated rotating drum",
          "word": "آلہ خشکاری"
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      "sense": "electrical appliance used for drying clothes, usually by tumbling them in a heated rotating drum",
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      "word": "衣類乾燥機"
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      "word": "secadora de roupas"
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      "sense": "electrical appliance used for drying clothes, usually by tumbling them in a heated rotating drum",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "துணி உலர்த்தி"
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      "sense": "electrical appliance used for drying clothes, usually by tumbling them in a heated rotating drum",
      "word": "དུག་སློག་སྐམ་ཡག་འཕྲུལ་འཁོར"
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      "sense": "electrical appliance used for drying clothes, usually by tumbling them in a heated rotating drum",
      "word": "çamaşır kurutma makinesi"
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      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "electrical appliance used for drying clothes, usually by tumbling them in a heated rotating drum",
      "word": "kurutma makinesi"
    },
    {
      "code": "ur",
      "lang": "Urdu",
      "sense": "electrical appliance used for drying clothes, usually by tumbling them in a heated rotating drum",
      "word": "آلہ خشکاری"
    },
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      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "electrical appliance used for drying clothes, usually by tumbling them in a heated rotating drum",
      "word": "máy sấy"
    }
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  "word": "clothes dryer"
}

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