What's the difference between gash and wash?

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.

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 .