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    ironing
    [ noun ]
    1. garments (clothes or linens) that are to be (or have been) ironed

    2. <noun.artifact>
      there was a basketful of ironing to do
    3. the work of using heat to smooth washed clothes in order to remove any wrinkles

    4. <noun.act>


    Iron \I"ron\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Ironed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
    {Ironing}.]
    1. To smooth with an instrument of iron; especially, to
    smooth, as cloth, with a heated flatiron; -- sometimes
    used with out.

    2. To shackle with irons; to fetter or handcuff. ``Ironed
    like a malefactor.'' --Sir W. Scott.

    3. To furnish or arm with iron; as, to iron a wagon.

    {iron out differences} resolve differences; settle a dispute.
    [PJC]


    Ironing \I"ron*ing\, n.
    1. The act or process of smoothing, as clothes, with hot
    flatirons.

    2. The clothes ironed.

    {Ironing board}, a flat board, upon which clothes are laid
    while being ironed.

    1. Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Alon Liel said the two-day meeting would be devoted to ironing out U.S.-Soviet differences over the role of superpowers in the proposed international forum.
    2. A union spokeswoman said negotiators were still ironing out details of the agreement with Bell Atlantic's Diamond State Telephone Co. unit in Delaware, but that wouldn't stop employees from returning to their jobs.
    3. She has cut down on her running, but her compulsion is still evident; now she often finds herself frantically dancing to music while ironing, vacuuming and mopping.
    4. Mrs. Bowling of Oklahoma City, who is the coordinator, is keeping plans secret, but past conventions included workshops on how to wash Barbie's hair and how to care for Barbie's clothes (ironing isn't recommended).
    5. The blood on top of the ironing board indicates she may have been standing when the attack began, they said.
    6. "I live alone but I have always managed to get food for my children washing clothes and ironing," she said. "Now there are no jobs because no one has money.
    7. "The problem is what we're looking at in the future." The best example of this dichotomy may be at Northrop Corp., which has gone a long way in ironing out its cost and schedule problems on a number of defense programs.
    8. For example, in 1965 some 98 percent of washing and ironing was done by women, while by 1985 that was only down to 88 percent.
    9. Hotel amenities have slowly improved for women. Hair dryers are the norm. There is better lighting; bathrobes; skirt hangers; ironing boards; door spy holes and door chains.
    10. And what about the pressing problem of wrapping an ironing board in a pretty holiday package? Those were just some of the dilemmas that faced the volunteers this year at a gift-wrapping booth in the North Platte Mall.
    11. Deadly, but not difficult: rather like doing the ironing.
    12. Officers also found a hot iron upright on an ironing board in the bedroom, the report said.
    13. Committees representing both sides start work today on ironing out remaining differences, they said.
    14. The rubbery hot transfer which the consumer had to avoid ironing over has been gradually replaced with better printing techniques.
    15. A Watkins-Johnson spokesman said the company is "ironing out the details" with Stollar, including the acquisition price, and expects to complete the transaction by the end of this month.
    16. Accordingly, about half of Liz Claiborne's clothes are washable and need little or no ironing.
    17. Quality is said to be satisfactory and Pollena's output was increased largely by ironing out bottlenecks in the plant. Redundancies have so far been avoided at Pollena.
    18. They have ironing boards, but no irons yet. The warning sirens went off in town the other day.
    19. Almost $90,000 was allocated to Peres' personal services, such as ironing, catering and photographs, the paper wrote.
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