What's the difference between gashing and gassing?

Gashing


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gash

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.

Gassing


Definition:

  • (n.) The process of passing cotton goods between two rollers and exposing them to numerous minute jets of gas to burn off the small fibers; any similar process of singeing.
  • (n.) Boasting; insincere or empty talk.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) However, a Defra report in 2005 concluded that gassing "cannot be reliably expected to kill all the animals in a complex burrow system".
  • (2) Membranes were sandwiched between two gas-permeable, plastic foils, placed in a sealed cuvette, and gassed with H2 as reductant or O2 as oxidant.
  • (3) We also examined the effects of the infusion of two litres of dialysate on airways resistance (Raw) using total body plethysmography and on arterial blood gasses.
  • (4) Isolated pulmonary arterial rings from Sprague-Dawley rats were placed in tissue baths containing Earle's balanced salt solution (gassed with 95% O2 - 5% CO2, 37 degrees C, pH 7.4).
  • (5) They said that would present problems because there were bylaws around compressed gasses it might be infringing.
  • (6) Phototrophic cultures of Rhodomicrobium vanielii do not excrete glycollate when gassed anaerobically with nitrogen plus carbon dioxide, although the addition of alpha-hydroxy-2-pyridine methanesulphonate (HPMS) results in the excretion of a trace amount of glycollate.
  • (7) Moreover, the gass bloat syndrome seen with the Nissen fundoplication has not been encountered.
  • (8) The system includes a pressure chamber capable of holding eight isolated toad bladder short-circuit current apparatuses and unique experimental gassing, diluent addition, and sampling systems which are monitored by a control panel mounted on the side of the pressure chamber.
  • (9) Rat isolated caudal arteries were perfused with Krebs-Henseleit solution at 37 degrees C, pH 7.4, and gassed with 95% O2-5% CO2.
  • (10) Since the protective effect of the OH scavengers varies with the gassing conditions, the dose modifying effects of O2 and N2O relative to N2 depend on the identity and concentration of OH scavenger.
  • (11) The findings most closely resembled a disease described by Dreyer and Gass in 1984 as "multifocal choroiditis and panuveitis".
  • (12) A mile from where I am staying, Israeli jeeps drive through Aida refugee camp, soldiers through loudhailers informing residents that if they throw stones they will be shot and gassed until they are all dead.
  • (13) In Experiment 1, continuous CO2 gassing increased rate and decreased lag time prior to NDF digestion compared with purging a non-CO2-saturated buffer at inoculation.
  • (14) Fragments of normal term placenta were mixed with Biogel P2, packed into minicolumns and superfused with carbogen-gassed Earles buffer at 37 degrees C. The rheology of the superfusion system was determined and the oxygen consumption of the superfused placental fragments indicated viability of the tissue preparation over a 5-hour time span.
  • (15) The simutaneous study of the arterial, and mixed venous blood gasses and of the alveolar gases, in 20 of these patients showed the constant occurrence of a shunt syndrome, without alveolar hypoventilation or disorders in peripheral circulatory flow.
  • (16) We see nothing about the men gassed to death in a police transport.
  • (17) In this series of experiments the cells were maintained at 37 degrees C throughout the gassing and irradiation periods, to simulate normal physiological conditions.
  • (18) The nucleotide also facilitated the efflux of HCO3- when the cell was switched from a Krebs-bicarbonate buffer gassed with 5% CO2 to an HEPES buffer.
  • (19) The relation between the increase in galactose efflux with insulin and the insulin concentration conforms to the Michaelis-Menten equation, for perfusates prepared both with and without CO(2) gassing, indicating in the latter case the presence of a competitive inhibitor of insulin.5.
  • (20) Incubation in the Ringer solution gassed with N2 instead of O2 also resulted in loss of the Pi absorption.

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