What's the difference between cash and wash?

Cash


Definition:

  • (n.) A place where money is kept, or where it is deposited and paid out; a money box.
  • (n.) Ready money; especially, coin or specie; but also applied to bank notes, drafts, bonds, or any paper easily convertible into money
  • (n.) Immediate or prompt payment in current funds; as, to sell goods for cash; to make a reduction in price for cash.
  • (v. t.) To pay, or to receive, cash for; to exchange for money; as, cash a note or an order.
  • (v. t.) To disband.
  • (n.sing & pl.) A Chinese coin.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Helsby, who joined the estate agent in 1980, saw his basic salary unchanged at £225,000, but gains a £610,000 windfall in shares, available from May, as well as a £363,000 increase in cash and shares under the company profits-sharing scheme.
  • (2) But the company's problems appear to be multiplying, with rumours that suppliers are demanding earlier payment than before, putting pressure on HTC's cash position.
  • (3) More evil than Clocky , the alarm clock that rolls away when you reach out to silence it, or the Puzzle Alarm , which makes you complete a simple puzzle before it'll go quiet, the Money Shredding Alarm Clock methodically destroys your cash unless you rouse yourself.
  • (4) Living by the "Big River" as a child, Cash soaked up work songs, church music, and country & western from radio station WMPS in Memphis, or the broadcasts from Nashville's Grand Ole Opry on Friday and Saturday evenings.
  • (5) It is clear that the linking of the naming rights to West Ham United generates real cash value for the LLDC and the taxpayer.
  • (6) As part of the shake-up, the rule that says only half can be saved in cash is being abolished.
  • (7) He would still lose some of his original cash, but it would be less.
  • (8) The Treasury said: "Britain has been at the forefront of global reforms to make banking more responsible, including big reductions in upfront cash bonuses and linking rewards to long-term success.
  • (9) One of the big sticking points is cash – with rich countries so far failing to live up to promise to mobilise $100bn a year by 2020 for climate finance .
  • (10) Juliette Touma, Unicef’s spokeswoman in Jordan, said: “The focus in the past week has been on the refugees in Europe, but it is important to make the link to Syria, where 70% to 80% [of them] have come from.” She said the UK has been one of its biggest donors, but the public can help by giving cash and becoming advocates, writing to their MPs and holding fundraising events.
  • (11) The audit states: "The financial position of Zuma deteriorated over time, mainly as a result of the fact of the shortage in daily funding required to fund his lifestyle … Zuma's cash requirements by far exceeded his ability to fund such requirements from his salary."
  • (12) That’s precisely the point made by Jubilee Debt Campaign: the reckless lenders that poured speculative cash into the country in the runup to the crisis escaped largely unscathed (though they were forced to accept some reduction in the face value of their bonds – known as a haircut – in the 2012 restructuring that accompanied Greece’s second emergency bailout).
  • (13) Virgin investors will receive $17.50 in cash and own 36% of Liberty's shares once the deal is complete.
  • (14) In June it warned that some revenues from 31 of about 200 social housing contracts had been deferred hitting the amount of cash coming into the business.
  • (15) Vimeo has been less successful in convincing its audience to part ways with actual cash.
  • (16) Ensuring residents have multiple ways to pay (such as via a text message or through a smartphone app) will also be important as they offer residents the control they feel they have with cash and can be used to top up a direct debit.
  • (17) The cash would have fed swiftly into demand, with negligible risk of inflation.
  • (18) The award to Sorrell is thought to be the second-largest granted to a FTSE 100 chief executive, behind only the £92m in shares and cash paid to Bart Becht while he was chief executive of Reckitt Benckiser in 2009.
  • (19) The insatiable growth of the NHS's demands for cash have never been more graphically illustrated than under the present government.
  • (20) He believed retail deposits, where cash is not being held for investments, were currently "broadly stable".

Wash


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To cleanse by ablution, or dipping or rubbing in water; to apply water or other liquid to for the purpose of cleansing; to scrub with water, etc., or as with water; as, to wash the hands or body; to wash garments; to wash sheep or wool; to wash the pavement or floor; to wash the bark of trees.
  • (v. t.) To cover with water or any liquid; to wet; to fall on and moisten; hence, to overflow or dash against; as, waves wash the shore.
  • (v. t.) To waste or abrade by the force of water in motion; as, heavy rains wash a road or an embankment.
  • (v. t.) To remove by washing to take away by, or as by, the action of water; to drag or draw off as by the tide; -- often with away, off, out, etc.; as, to wash dirt from the hands.
  • (v. t.) To cover with a thin or watery coat of color; to tint lightly and thinly.
  • (v. t.) To overlay with a thin coat of metal; as, steel washed with silver.
  • (v. i.) To perform the act of ablution.
  • (v. i.) To clean anything by rubbing or dipping it in water; to perform the business of cleansing clothes, ore, etc., in water.
  • (v. i.) To bear without injury the operation of being washed; as, some calicoes do not wash.
  • (v. i.) To be wasted or worn away by the action of water, as by a running or overflowing stream, or by the dashing of the sea; -- said of road, a beach, etc.
  • (n.) The act of washing; an ablution; a cleansing, wetting, or dashing with water; hence, a quantity, as of clothes, washed at once.
  • (n.) A piece of ground washed by the action of a sea or river, or sometimes covered and sometimes left dry; the shallowest part of a river, or arm of the sea; also, a bog; a marsh; a fen; as, the washes in Lincolnshire.
  • (n.) Substances collected and deposited by the action of water; as, the wash of a sewer, of a river, etc.
  • (n.) Waste liquid, the refuse of food, the collection from washed dishes, etc., from a kitchen, often used as food for pigs.
  • (n.) The fermented wort before the spirit is extracted.
  • (n.) A mixture of dunder, molasses, water, and scummings, used in the West Indies for distillation.
  • (n.) That with which anything is washed, or wetted, smeared, tinted, etc., upon the surface.
  • (n.) A liquid cosmetic for the complexion.
  • (n.) A liquid dentifrice.
  • (n.) A liquid preparation for the hair; as, a hair wash.
  • (n.) A medical preparation in a liquid form for external application; a lotion.
  • (n.) A thin coat of color, esp. water color.
  • (n.) A thin coat of metal laid on anything for beauty or preservation.
  • (n.) The blade of an oar, or the thin part which enters the water.
  • (n.) The backward current or disturbed water caused by the action of oars, or of a steamer's screw or paddles, etc.
  • (n.) The flow, swash, or breaking of a body of water, as a wave; also, the sound of it.
  • (n.) Ten strikes, or bushels, of oysters.
  • (a.) Washy; weak.
  • (a.) Capable of being washed without injury; washable; as, wash goods.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) These studies led to the following conclusions: (a) all the prominent NHP which remain bound to DNA are also present in somewhat similar proportions in the saline-EDTA, Tris, and 0.35 M NaCl washes of nuclei; (b) a protein comigrating with actin is prominent in the first saline-EDTA wash of nuclei, but present as only a minor band in the subsequent washes and on washed chromatin; (c) the presence of nuclear matrix proteins in all the nuclear washes and cytosol indicates that these proteins are distributed throughout the cell; (d) a histone-binding protein (J2) analogous to the HMG1 protein of K. V. Shooter, G.H.
  • (2) Platelet-rich plasma (PRP) was prepared, and platelet aggregation studies were conducted directly or conducted on washed platelets prepared from PRP collected with ACD.
  • (3) Channel activation persists through the process of platelet isolation and washing and is manifested in higher measured values of [Ca2+]cyt and [Ca2+]dt in the "resting state."
  • (4) Spontaneous lipid peroxidation in washed human spermatozoa was induced by aerobic incubation at 32 C and measured by malonaldehyde production; loss of motility during the incubation was determined simultaneously.
  • (5) After short-term (1 h) incubation in suspension cultures cells were washed and plated in clonogenic agar cultures.
  • (6) The only other black woman I see in the building: washing dishes behind a door that was supposed to have been locked.
  • (7) Lymphocytes of inbred mice immunized with allogenic tumour cells were labelled in vitro or in vivo by 3H-thymidine, washed out and incubated with target cells in the presence of "cold" thymidine.
  • (8) A cross-over study (cimetidine, 1 g daily for 19 days; ranitidine, 300 mg daily for 19 days; wash-out period: 20 days) was carried out in six healthy volunteers.
  • (9) Released aggregates of the 19.6-kDa protein were removed from suspension by ultracentrifugation and separated from contaminating membranes by washing in 1.0% sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS).
  • (10) Removal of bPTH by washing the membranes virtually abolished activity, but washing after addition of bPTH plus Gpp(NH)p did not prevent continued accumulation of cAMP.
  • (11) The feces contained less than 3% of the dose and the expired 14CO2 and cage wash accounted for less than 0.2 and 1% of the dose, respectively.
  • (12) The ratio of the metabolically produced Ic to Ib but not the total amount of N-oxygenated metabolites varied greatly depending of the liver microsomal fractions used in the incubation mixtures of Ia; more Ib was produced from Ia using 9000 g supernatant and conversely, more Ic was formed using the washed microsomes of the same liver.
  • (13) On day 7, washes were collected as on day 0, and a collar was attached to the neck to prevent contamination from saliva.
  • (14) Chronic exposure of epithelial cells to the lysate mediator preparation, followed by washing, had no effect on their basal electrical or electrolyte-transporting properties.
  • (15) The binding of [3H]PAF to washed human platelets indicated subtle changes between Days 2 and 4, which became more noticeable by Day 6.
  • (16) The same ratio occurred when zinc (0 to 0.6 mM in citrate buffer) was added to semen or washed spermatozoa.
  • (17) While cells that were treated with antibody were unable to aggregate because of the inability to destroy cAMP, they aggregated normally when washed free of antibody.
  • (18) The philosopher defended his actions by referring to Pierre Bourdieu's concept of symbolic violence, naturally enough, but it didn't wash with HR.
  • (19) Microbiological investigations made by membrane filtration method on antiseptics and disinfectants demonstrated that the filtering membranes present very frequently a remarkable antimicrobial activity, even after washing with 300 ml of peptone water according to the guidelines of the Pharmacopoeia.
  • (20) American Horror Story is a paean to the supernatural whose greatest purpose is letting washed-up actors and pop stars chew the scenery on the way to winning awards .