ironing

/'aiəniɳ/

Thân thiện

She is ironing a white shirt on a wooden board.

Definition

1. Noun:
   • The work or process of using a heated iron to smooth clothes or fabric: "Ironing" refers to the activity of removing wrinkles from washed textiles, typically using an appliance called an iron.
   • Clothes or linens that need to be or have been ironed: "Ironing" can also refer to the items themselves—the pile of garments awaiting this task or those that have just been smoothed.

Usage Examples

• Noun (referring to the work):
  • She does the ironing every Sunday evening.
  • I find ironing to be a relaxing chore.
• Noun (referring to the items):
  • There is a huge pile of ironing on the chair.
  • He put away the clean ironing.

Advanced Usage

• "to do the ironing": to perform the task of smoothing clothes with an iron.
  • My husband usually does the ironing while I cook dinner.
• "ironing board": (Note: This is a compound noun, listed separately as a variant) The folding table used for ironing clothes.

Variants and Related Words

• Iron (verb): To smooth clothes or fabric with a heated iron.
  • You need to iron this shirt before wearing it.
• Ironed (adjective): Describing clothes that have been smoothed.
  • He wore a neatly ironed suit.
• Unironed (adjective): Describing clothes that have not been smoothed and are wrinkled.
  • A basket of unironed laundry sat in the corner.

Synonyms

• Pressing: The act of using an iron, often used in professional contexts like tailoring.
  • The suit needed expert pressing.

Related Phrases

• A mountain/stack/pile of ironing: An idiom describing a very large amount of clothes to be ironed.
  • After returning from vacation, I faced a mountain of ironing.

Học thuật

Noun

1. the work of using heat to smooth washed clothes in order to remove any wrinkles
2. garments (clothes or linens) that are to be (or have been) ironed
   • there was a basketful of ironing to do