What's the difference between gush and lush?

Gush


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To issue with violence and rapidity, as a fluid; to rush forth as a fluid from confinement; to flow copiously.
  • (v. i.) To make a sentimental or untimely exhibition of affection; to display enthusiasm in a silly, demonstrative manner.
  • (v. t.) A sudden and violent issue of a fluid from an inclosed plase; an emission of a liquid in a large quantity, and with force; the fluid thus emitted; a rapid outpouring of anything; as, a gush of song from a bird.
  • (v. t.) A sentimental exhibition of affection or enthusiasm, etc.; effusive display of sentiment.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "I have brought some special friends with me," she gushed.
  • (2) The populations of the big settlement blocs of Maale Adumim, Gush Etzion and Ariel were stable over the past year.
  • (3) Each duodenal gush was identified and its value calculated on the basis of pre-established threshold and timing criteria which eliminate shifts in the baseline and artefacts due to the presence of particles.
  • (4) The withdrawal from Sinai due in April has antagonised the Gush Emunim and other nationalist groups who have threatened physically to obstruct it.
  • (5) A few weeks ago, an official from the Cabinet Office gushed on his blog about a jolly exciting trip, a kind of pilgrimage, to Amazon and Google in Seattle and San Francisco.
  • (6) Fans of the character should therefore take some solace from McWeeny's gushing review of Man of Steel .
  • (7) The oil's back too, gushing forth on Southfork ranch within seconds of the start of the new pilot.
  • (8) It was equipment failure that caused Shell's high-pressure Trans-Niger pipeline to rupture on 28 August 2008, gushing an estimated 2,000 barrels of oil per day into Bodo for weeks.
  • (9) She just wasn't at all like any of the interviews that I'd researched: she didn't gush, she was serious and still.
  • (10) On Reading’s website, Nick Candy gushes: “NRPR [Neil Reading PR] has guided us in formulating an ambitious strategy to help boost our profile and meet our niche target audience.
  • (11) Gushing reports of the city’s thriving creative scene, green spaces and quality of living have earned the place the nickname Hypezig, and some locals fear its reputation as “the better Berlin” may attract private investors, and drive up property prices.
  • (12) Shani Simkovitz, director of the Gush Etzion Foundation, shows the trailer for the new feature film about the massacre.
  • (13) She is impossible to dislike and I confess that I tried yet in the occasionally bitchy world of books she is nicknamed Lady Gush.
  • (14) Before a ferociously red crowd, in which the Australian fans, scattered throughout the stadium in little blobs of yellow, struggled to assert themselves in any meaningful way, the Chileans started with their customary disregard for defence, a line of five attackers purring forward with gushing, almost smug intent.
  • (15) Daniel Hamilton, a Conservative European election candidate, tweeted: " Ronnie Biggs was a violent criminal who evaded facing justice for decade s. I find today's gushing eulogies slightly offensive."
  • (16) "It's cheaper than water," said one motorist, pointing out that bottled water costs far more than the 95-octane gasoline gushing into his Ford Explorer.
  • (17) Old colleagues including Bravo, Karan, and the former Burberry finance director Stacey Cartwright are gushing in their praise for his abilities and leadership qualities.
  • (18) Secretin-induced flow is only a trickle in these patients, but when the limiting membranous web is cut, pancreatic secretions gush forth.
  • (19) Within hours of Xi’s landmark tour the party’s total control of China’s state media was on full show in a series of gushing reviews.
  • (20) Following the discovery of the missing Israeli's bodies on Monday, new details about the teenagers' abduction and murder 19 days ago while hitching home from West Bank religious schools have emerged in the Hebrew press, including the fact that investigators believe that the teenagers were killed within a few minutes of getting into a stolen car near Gush Etzion junction.

Lush


Definition:

  • (a.) Full of juice or succulence.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The tunes weren't quite as easy and lush as they had been, and hints of dissonance crept in.
  • (2) Adjoining his office, in the green room where Nicolas Sarkozy married Carla Bruni, Hollande settled into a lush dining chair, more elaborate than the rest around the meeting table.
  • (3) The tale of native American Pocahontas's love for an English captain in 17th-century Virginia and her journey to England, it made much of innocence versus colonial exploitation, contrasting the lush, wild vegetation of America with the manicured gardens of England.
  • (4) Look, you can see it here," he says, pointing to a long, low, flat plateau that barely rises above the palms, banana plants and rubber trees that skirt the road and hug the traditional stilted timber houses dotting the lush emerald-green countryside.
  • (5) Smaller Kalymnos, Kasos, Kastellorizo and Symi are less lush than their bigger companions but all have elegant harbours – a legacy of their trading past – and rocky interiors that offer good walking.
  • (6) And then, out of the distance rush the intricately detailed hordes, like lushly painted Games Worshop figures.
  • (7) From the summit, accessed via the Summit trail or a paved forest service road, visitors can marvel at the line of Cascade volcanoes to the east, the lush, green Willamette valley below and the Pacific Ocean to the west, making this one of the best places for views in the state.
  • (8) In Australia, the sudden flush of vegetation that followed the loss of large herbivores caused stacks of leaf litter to build up, which became the rainforests' pyre: fires (natural or manmade) soon transformed these lush places into dry forest and scrub .
  • (9) There was still snow in June this year in the Northern Velebit national park, which contrasts lush beech forest with more austere pine-spiked ridges, and here there is a proper day's hiking to be had, requiring detailed maps, sensible shoes and a chat with the ranger beforehand.
  • (10) Doubles from £84, B&B Le Gite d’Indaiatiba, near Paraty Le Gite díIndaiatiba, near Paraty Paraty has one of Brazil’s most astonishing settings, where rainforest-covered peaks spill down to bay after beautiful blue bay, so why not back off the historic centre a bit and make your way into the lush surroundings of the Serra do Bocaina mountains?
  • (11) Amazon shoppers searching for Lush products would instead be directed to similar products described as "lush".
  • (12) and MacFarlane's newest animated sitcom, The Cleveland Show , may wonder what has happened to their comic hero once they have seen him step out behind the microphone in his tuxedo to the accompaniment of Wilson's lush strings.
  • (13) From there it was on to Kentucky, which had a 14% poor roads rating and many well-tended arcs of asphalt swooping through lush, wooded hill country.
  • (14) The resort, one of the largest ever foreign investments in China, includes a 225-acre Magic Kingdom-style park with a castle surrounded by themed areas, with guests entering through a lush 11-acre garden.
  • (15) Samples collected from or near surface waters in a lush hardwood forest yielded four salmonellae serotypes from six culturally positive samples.
  • (16) Sangin's lush wheat fields and dense poppy groves soon became killing fields.
  • (17) Winning tip Wadi Bani Khalid, Oman You might not imagine the Middle East as a swimmer's paradise, but Wadi Bani Khalid in Oman's Sharqiyah region is a lush oasis.
  • (18) Henderson's acknowledged scientific hero was Jay L. Lush, with whom he studied during his Ph.D. program at Iowa State College and with whom he shared similar talents and the intuition that made both of them leaders in the field of animal breeding.
  • (19) Starting in a lush valley edged by high cliffs, it climbs a side valley to a rocky ridge.
  • (20) It was special, too, to have someone take beautiful pictures.” Those pictures promote an idyll that doesn’t seem to belong to this age, with both women wearing vintage dresses, carrying picnic baskets filled with passionfruit curd through a lush garden.