What's the difference between gash and nash?

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.

Nash


Definition:

  • (a.) Firm; stiff; hard; also, chilly.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A modified version of the National Adolescent Student Health Survey (NASHS) was administered to 3,803 eighth- and tenth-grade public school students during the fall of 1988.
  • (2) Chester’s proposal for Hartsuyker to be the next deputy leader excludes other senior Nationals figures who are in the current Turnbull ministry, including assistant infrastructure minister Michael McCormack and rural health minister Fiona Nash.
  • (3) Born Gladys Nash on 18 January 1903, she was brought up in Rottingdean, Brighton, East Sussex, and went on to study at college.
  • (4) Nash also conceded that Furnival had not declared any conflict of interest at the meeting of federal, state and New Zealand ministers on 13 December, which Nash chaired and Furnival attended.
  • (5) In an ideal world, Nash said, the average OB-GYN might perform abortions, and the procedure would be just one of many ways doctors cover their business expenses.
  • (6) Bovine estrogen sulphotransferase c-DNA has recently been cloned; the encoded protein having a maximum Mr of 35,000 (Nash, A.R.
  • (7) After hours of grilling in senate estimates, assistant health minister Fiona Nash insists there was no conflict of interest or breach of standards in her office because her former chief of staff, Alister Furnival, did not act like a man who had a conflict of interest, did everything required of him to avoid conflicts, and he can’t help it if his accountant forgot to tidy up his paperwork.
  • (8) In his recent autobiography, Wild Tales , Graham Nash – of the Hollies and Crosby Stills & Nash – recalled the effect the song had on him when he heard it at a school dance in Salford: "It was like the opening of a giant door in my soul, the striking of a chord... from which I've never recovered … From the time when I first heard the Everly Brothers, I knew I wanted to make music that affected people the way the Everlys affected me."
  • (9) In the document, dated October 2013 and circulated to senior officials, Cummings said he and schools minister Lord Nash had “serious concerns” about Ofsted’s operation.
  • (10) That the Nash-reactive material was formaldehyde was validated by a glutathione-dependent formaldehyde dehydrogenase positive reaction.
  • (11) John Nash is one of the founders of Sovereign Capital, a private equity firm with interests in the healthcare sector.
  • (12) Guardian Australia understands that at the last meeting of the state, federal and New Zealand ministers responsible for the new system, at which Nash has conceded Furnival did not declare a conflict of interest, Nash argued that the scheme should be subject to a full regulatory impact statement (RIS).
  • (13) The Lakers know all about injury absences: Bryant hasn't played since tearing his Achilles tendon during Golden State's last visit to Staples Center in April, while Nash is out for at least another week with nerve root irritation.
  • (14) On 31 March, the assistant health minister, Fiona Nash, announced drug and alcohol treatment programs costing the commonwealth $87m would continue for one year.
  • (15) One was designed by a famous architect, John Nash, the other by anonymous builders, though both were from an era (and in Nash's case, an architect) notorious for jerry-building.
  • (16) The patients were divided into bronchitics, emphysematous and broncho-emphysematous, according to the clinical and radiological Nash's score, and to another personal score derived from the former.
  • (17) 10.49pm GMT Nash says this was essentially an administrative error.
  • (18) They added to a growing list of big names already sidelined this season by one ailment or another, a scroll that includes Deron Williams, Stephen Curry, Steve Nash and Tyson Chandler.
  • (19) There was then a second call from another, more junior adviser in Fiona Nash’s office asking that the website be taken down.
  • (20) In most cases, NASH results in a progressive hepatic distortion with can end in cirrhosis, although the change is slow and silent.

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