What's the difference between dandy and masher?

Dandy


Definition:

  • (n.) One who affects special finery or gives undue attention to dress; a fop; a coxcomb.
  • (n.) A sloop or cutter with a jigger on which a lugsail is set.
  • (n.) A small sail carried at or near the stern of small boats; -- called also jigger, and mizzen.
  • (n.) A dandy roller. See below.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In a 3-year-old child, a rare combination of a Dandy-Walker syndrome, a primitive trigeminal artery and a facial haemangioma was found.
  • (2) That's just dandy when you're gazing at a lamb chop with mint sauce, but the downside to this technology is that each time you glance at the image of Jamie on the front cover you'll absorb some of him, too.
  • (3) Neil Morton has written a dandy little blog explaining how he found the perfect soundtrack for the aftermath of England's tussle with Italy last weekend.
  • (4) A child who had the Dandy-Walker syndrome along with her healthy twin sibling were followed regularly for a period of 2 years.
  • (5) Three cases of Dandy-Walker syndrome are described.
  • (6) The presenting diagnoses were Cogan's syndrome, Meniere's syndrome, Dandy's syndrome without hearing loss, or progressive sensorineural hearing loss without dizziness.
  • (7) After rhizotomia (Dandys method) 3 patients died, one of them because of a meningitis, one of them because of damage of the superior petrosal vein and one after ligature of an irregular auditive artery.
  • (8) A review of serial computed tomography (CT) scans of 25 patients with the Dandy-Walker malformation revealed six patients with chronic downward transincisural herniation of the cerebrum after shunt decompression of the posterior fossa cyst or malfunction of a lateral ventricular drainage catheter, or both.
  • (9) In this series, one patient had aqueductal stenosis, four had agenesis of the corpus callosum, two had hydrocephalus, one had cerebral abiotrophy, and one (a 72-year-old man) had no additional defects and no symptoms from his Dandy-Walker syndrome.
  • (10) Two patients with the Dandy-Walker malformation first developed neurologic symptoms in adult life.
  • (11) Autopsy findings included intraphepatic biliary atresia, coarctation of the aorta of the infantile type, and the Dandy-Walker syndrome.
  • (12) Fielding, surrealist comic, painter and dandy, is recreating the glam rock 1970s.
  • (13) The differential diagnosis of a posterior fossa fluid collection in the fetus includes an enlarged cisterna magna, Dandy-Walker syndrome, or a posterior fossa cyst, each of which has differing implications for perinatal management.
  • (14) In the present report we describe a girl with mental retardation, Dandy-Walker malformation, craniofacial anomalies, cardiac defect, and ovarian dysgenesis associated with an interstitial deletion of chromosome 2.
  • (15) The Dandy-Walker malformation was found at autopsy in our patient.
  • (16) All 3 children had associated hindbrain deformities; two with Dandy-Walker malformation, the third with a Chiari II malformation.
  • (17) Clinical and complementary investigation revealed a malformation syndrome with many anomalies like those of trisomy 9p as well as Dandy-Walker cyst and Hirschsprung disease not previously described in tetrasomy 9p.
  • (18) A rare case is reported of Dandy-Walker cyst of the posterior fossa with intracystic chronic hemorrhage.
  • (19) Three cases were associated with other congenital anomalies: intracranial angioma, Dandy Walker Syndrome and Klippel-Trenauncy Syndrome.
  • (20) An infant had a giant congenital nevus, neurocutaneous melanosis (NCM), and a Dandy-Walker malformation of the brain.

Masher


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, mashes; also (Brewing), a machine for making mash.
  • (n.) A charmer of women.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) For the best results, pass the potatoes through a potato ricer or mouli – otherwise, use a standard potato masher.
  • (2) Add the reserved liquid, lemon juice, cumin, the rest of the oil, three-quarters of a teaspoon of salt and a good grind of pepper, and on a medium-high heat warm through for six to seven minutes, crushing the beans slightly with a masher, until the mixture has the consistency of thick porridge.
  • (3) Depending on how daintily diced your vegetables are, you can either leave them in the gravy, or mash them up a bit with a potato masher and then sieve the gravy into a saucepan for the rest of the cooking.
  • (4) Photograph: Jordan Hoffman for the Guardian Nearby was a station with a similar concept, a Star Wars-specific version of Hero Mashers , in which you can take component parts and build your own action figure.
  • (5) Pass the steaming flesh through a ricer if you have one, or use a masher to obtain a smooth paste.
  • (6) His first directing job, Mission: Impossible III , had not been finished, he had a string of script commissions behind him of variable quality – including Michael Bay's infamous asteroid-masher Armageddon .
  • (7) Mash together with a masher or fork until you have a smooth thick puree, with a mashed potato consistency.
  • (8) On the one hand, I was impressed with this opportunity to play in such a free jazz style, but part of me wondered if Hero Mashers wasn’t born of a toy exec spying a bin of discarded doll parts wondering if he couldn’t make a buck out of ’em somehow.
  • (9) They were quickly alerted to the fact that the Japanese generally do not eat cheese or mashed potatoes during a presentation, leaving the potato masher and grater largely redundant - although the brand has proved particularly successful there and in the US out of the 105 countries they now sell in, mostly through third-party distributors.
  • (10) Now, whether using fresh or frozen, run a masher over the peas a few times to break them up a bit.