(n.) A genus of trees of the Olive family, having opposite pinnate leaves, many of the species furnishing valuable timber, as the European ash (Fraxinus excelsior) and the white ash (F. Americana).
(n.) The tough, elastic wood of the ash tree.
(n.) sing. of Ashes.
(v. t.) To strew or sprinkle with ashes.
Example Sentences:
(1) It reduced serum AP levels, increased serum Ca levels, increased bone ash weight, epiphyseal and metaphyseal bone volume, with a concomitant reduction in epiphyseal and metaphyseal bone marrow volume.
(2) DES implantation increased the body weight of the ram by 10.4% and caused no significant change in total body water, body ash, or total muscle mass.
(3) Implants and femurs from both Cl2MBP groups had a higher ash content than controls, but uptake of the two isotopes was not affected.
(4) I told a police officer and a support worker that as a last resort I was thinking of getting on contact with Ash again.
(5) Results indicate that the rachitogenic factor in rye is not present in the ash portion of the grain, that it can be largely overcome by water extraction and penicillin supplementation, and that an organic solvent extraction has no effect.
(6) Minimal frequency for tonic firing and the slope of the linear portion of the frequency-current relation were indirectly related to the duration of the ASH.
(7) "We are alarmed to see the government is even wavering about continuing its programme of tracing, testing and destroying infected young ash trees.
(8) The dependence of the enzyme on Mg++ and Co++ for activity in the presence of high ash concentration was demonstrated.
(9) Tibial breaking strength and tibial percentage ash of the progeny at hatching was markedly improved in proportion to maternal phosphorus and food intake.
(10) Analyses of body composition indicated DHEA-treated animals had proportionately less body fat and therefore more body water, protein and ash than controls.
(11) Forage contents of CP and ash showed a cubic (P less than .05) response to advancing stage of regrowth, with highest (23.6 and 11.0%, respectively) and lowest (14.7 and 9.1%, respectively) values for both fractions occurring at wk 1 and 5, respectively.
(12) Mount Sakurajima in the south of the Kyushu Island of Japan erupts hundreds of times a year and continuously emits large amounts of ash.
(13) The caption blamed "the dogs of the Interior [ministry]", and claimed that incendiary bombs had been fired at the building by police, "causing a very big fire" that "burned everything to ashes".
(14) But we will need the nurseries as they are going to be very important in restocking woods" if varieties that are resistant to ash dieback become available.
(15) The government banned imports of ash trees last Monday after a programme in which 100,000 specimens have been destroyed since the disease was discovered in March.
(16) Thyroxine complementation in TX or TPTX mothers induced a normalization of the fetal percentage of ash in both cases; a trend towards an increased value was observed in the percentage of ash of fetal femurs.
(17) These phantoms are made of bone ash suspended in white petrolatum in varying concentrations.
(18) Out of them 84 cases of advanced left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) [37 cases of symmetric hypertrophy (HT-SH group) and 47 cases of ASH (HT-ASH group)] were compared in their clinical and echocardiographic findings with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM).
(19) The IFS’s preference is to use ASHE as its measure of earnings with the Consumer Prices Index including housing costs as its benchmark for inflation.
(20) Material effects included lower %ash (approximately 2%) in the femora and tibiae as well as in the humeri of suspended mice compared to controls.
Gash
Definition:
(v. t.) To make a gash, or long, deep incision in; -- applied chiefly to incisions in flesh.
(n.) A deep and long cut; an incision of considerable length and depth, particularly in flesh.
Example Sentences:
(1) When Mott came out Ajao cut him across the face, leaving a three inch gash on his cheek.
(2) When he made Armando Iannucci laugh (Oliver worked on his 2003 topical review show Gash ), he told himself, "if that's all I get to do, if it doesn't work out then that's fine, that's more than enough.
(3) The lawyer friend with whom he exchanged the emails also referred to women as "gash".
(4) His torso was cut open, gashed deep to the navel, and the index finger of his right hand torn off.
(5) The crowd are warming to these game Koreans ... 27 min: Jong is down receiving treatment to an ugly gash on his thigh.
(6) He told the Associated Press that the photo he posted on his Twitter account, showing Saqer's body covered with bruises and gashes, was genuine.
(7) With the approach of Monday's meeting of a Premier League committee that will consider the matter, it has also emerged that the lawyer who is said to have referred to women as "gash" in the email exchange is under investigation by the City law firm that employs him.
(8) Gash says green army projects have also been brought into the area which give people work for about six months.
(9) The kindergarten teacher suffered a 5cm gash to her right hand, after intervening to stop a firework exploding in her three-year-old’s pram.
(10) The toilet is shared, and one night we bumped into a drunk man with a gash on his head, which was frightening for Evelina.
(11) The former Manchester United and Barcelona goalkeeper was having a fine game but, when recovering from a bad gash caused by a Navas challenge, Valdés could do nothing about City’s superb opener.
(12) Put their bodies in the way of the goal, gash their heads and get a Terry Butcher headscarf.
(13) With her four companions, who had linked arms around Birmingham in 1998 as part of the Jubilee Debt campaign, and travelled to Edinburgh in 2005 for Make Poverty History, Gash said it was important to keep banging the drum.
(14) At last Butcher, the white man's burden, was taken off but when Wright suffered a badly gashed head he needed six stitches but says he will be fit for the semi-final in a collision with Milla in the 85th minute, England had to reorganise.
(15) When I saw the gash in the skull, and the twisted spine, the hair stood up on the back of my neck."
(16) Others showed another man with a deep gash in his cheek and blood on the ground.
(17) • Catherine Needham, 21st Century Public Servant: Literature on leadership • Mental Health Cop: Evidence Based Policing • Tom Gash, Institute for Government: Decentralisation power plays • Zarathustra, Not So Big Society: Physical healthcare for people with mental health problems: Why do we so often get it wrong?
(18) There is another scar below one knee and a deep gash above one eye that has healed into a livid scar.
(19) Joanna Gash was Liberal MP for the area from 1996 until she retired at the 2013 election after being elected mayor of the Shoalhaven.
(20) In 1961, he broke a bone in his left ankle in a collision on the polo field and in 1963, again playing polo, he suffered a gash to his left arm.