What's the difference between lash and mash?

Lash


Definition:

  • (n.) The thong or braided cord of a whip, with which the blow is given.
  • (n.) A leash in which an animal is caught or held; hence, a snare.
  • (n.) A stroke with a whip, or anything pliant and tough; as, the culprit received thirty-nine lashes.
  • (n.) A stroke of satire or sarcasm; an expression or retort that cuts or gives pain; a cut.
  • (n.) A hair growing from the edge of the eyelid; an eyelash.
  • (n.) In carpet weaving, a group of strings for lifting simultaneously certain yarns, to form the figure.
  • (v. t.) To strike with a lash ; to whip or scourge with a lash, or with something like one.
  • (v. t.) To strike forcibly and quickly, as with a lash; to beat, or beat upon, with a motion like that of a lash; as, a whale lashes the sea with his tail.
  • (v. t.) To throw out with a jerk or quickly.
  • (v. t.) To scold; to berate; to satirize; to censure with severity; as, to lash vice.
  • (v. i.) To ply the whip; to strike; to utter censure or sarcastic language.
  • (n.) To bind with a rope, cord, thong, or chain, so as to fasten; as, to lash something to a spar; to lash a pack on a horse's back.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The conclusions lead us to recommend wide surgical excision for those melanomas arising on the lash margins.
  • (2) His shot, though, was pawed on to the inside of the post by David Marshall and it was left to Victor Wanyama to lash the loose ball into the empty net.
  • (3) I look back at those moments with shame – you look to your parents to protect you so, when it seems they are falling apart, you lash out at them because you feel vulnerable.
  • (4) The initial effort was poor, hit straight into the wall, but Sánchez took out his anger on the rebound, lashing it through the wall on the volley and past Silvio Proto.
  • (5) Windshields, spectacles, contact lenses, lashes, an excessive tear meniscus, intraocular lens scratches, and posterior capsular opacification are possible causes that can be easily identified and treated.
  • (6) Everton were level as Barkley lashed the ball past John Ruddy with his left foot after Seamus Coleman had cut inside from the right flank.
  • (7) The head of the New South Wales taxi council has lashed out at Labor leader Luke Foley’s support for Uber, likening the system to “WorkChoices on steroids”.
  • (8) But the Brownlow Medallist missed other chances and appeared to lash out at Scott Thompson in a messy exchange, as Sydney missed the preliminary finals for the first time in four seasons.
  • (9) Intracutaneous sterile water injections have been reported to relieve acute labor pain and cervical pain in whip-lash patients.
  • (10) John Terry made the decisive contact, lashing in the loose ball, then quickly went back to making sure his own defence was not so generous.
  • (11) Meanwhile, a leading coal industry lobby group, the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, dismissed the report as “unsubstantiated scare tactics and hyperbole” and lashed out at Obama for moving ahead on power plant regulations.
  • (12) The email also lashed out at the New York Times 's “sloppy” reporting, echoing a previous strategy of attacking the MSNBC network over its coverage of the so-called “Bridgegate” scandal.
  • (13) Exacerbations of signs and symptoms recurred when lashes regrew.
  • (14) Higuain picks up the ball and lashes a shot across the face of goal from the left.
  • (15) She was originally sentenced to 99 lashes, but her case was reopened when a court in Tabriz suspected her of murdering her husband.
  • (16) • This article was amended on 15 June 2015 to clarify that a letter Badawi dictated from prison was not published first by Der Spiegel, but is the preface to a book of his writings, 1,000 Lashes.
  • (17) Ribery lashes the thing towards goal with thunderous fury, Pyatov does well to get down and save, but Mamadou Sakho is on hand to tuck the ball home from close range.
  • (18) Sunderland’s right-back, Santiago Vergini, inadvertently gave Southampton the lead by lashing the ball into his own net in the 12th minute, and that signalled the start of a barmy encounter that had home fans in raptures and Sunderland in tatters.
  • (19) But only now, when the world's biggest economies have been lashed by the fallout from the irrational exuberance of the markets, has the idea captured the imagination of their leaders, including Gordon Brown , right.
  • (20) Morgan Tsvangirai , the principal challenger to Robert Mugabe for the presidency of Zimbabwe, has said a credible election next week is all but impossible and lashed out at the head of the African Union for backing his rival.

Mash


Definition:

  • (n.) A mesh.
  • (n.) A mass of mixed ingredients reduced to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure; a mass of anything in a soft pulpy state. Specifically (Brewing), ground or bruised malt, or meal of rye, wheat, corn, or other grain (or a mixture of malt and meal) steeped and stirred in hot water for making the wort.
  • (n.) A mixture of meal or bran and water fed to animals.
  • (n.) A mess; trouble.
  • (v. t.) To convert into a mash; to reduce to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure; to bruise; to crush; as, to mash apples in a mill, or potatoes with a pestle. Specifically (Brewing), to convert, as malt, or malt and meal, into the mash which makes wort.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In the absence of an authentic target for the MASH proteins, we examined their DNA binding and transcriptional regulatory activity by using a binding site (the E box) from the muscle creatine kinase (MCK) gene, a target of MyoD.
  • (2) The others received a cookie and chocolate mashed diet (C.C.
  • (3) The overall differences between swine fed mash-cholesterol and those fed milk-cholesterol diets appear to result from more efficient absorption of both neutral and acid steroids in the milk-cholesterol group only partially compensated for by decreased cholesterol synthesis.
  • (4) An excitable audience filled Glasgow's all-smoking, all-drinking Old Fruitmarket with shouted requests to Zevon who, at 53, looks a little mashed up by life.
  • (5) • You could use any left-over mashed potato to make your next batch of farls.
  • (6) When given a choice between two mashes of equal caloric density but differing flavors, rats (Rattus norvegicus) show a robust preference for the flavor previously associated with a higher calorie food.
  • (7) It is interesting to speculate on how different our thinking on ethanol tolerance would be today if sake fermentations had not evolved with successive mashing and simultaneous saccharification and fermentation of rice carbohydrate, if distillers' worts were clarified prior to fermentation but brewers' wort were not, and if grape skins with their associated unsaturated lipids had not been an integral part of red wine musts.
  • (8) The recommendations are duly translated into procedures that the staff of each agency must follow – a new recording form or assessment procedure, more meetings – Mashs (Multi-Agency Safeguarding Hubs), the Laming report's safeguarding children boards, child protection plan meetings and so forth.
  • (9) Blind duplicate samples of starch, diluted lemon juice, wine cooler, dehydrated seafood, and instant mashed potatoes were analyzed without spiking and with added sulfite at 2 levels.
  • (10) In Experiment 1, laying hens on a proprietary layer mash were compared with hens rested from lay by the feeding of whole grain barley.
  • (11) Last week Target made an announcement on its website, under a mash-up of the company logo and a rainbow: “We welcome transgender team members and guests to use the restroom or fitting room facility that corresponds with their gender identity.” It was the most high-profile statement on bathrooms from a major company, and drew cheers from supporters.
  • (12) Combine the sweet potatoes and the onion, sprinkle with cardamom, salt and pepper and mash, adding more butter if desired.
  • (13) The two groups were compared to control animals fed on AN-free mash.
  • (14) Vegetable use was most common in the low-risk area, whereas mashed potatoes, cabbage, and farinaceous dishes dominated in the high-risk area.
  • (15) To make the guacamole, peel the avocado, remove the stone, and mash in a bowl with a little salt and pepper and the lime juice.
  • (16) Complete degradation was observed for ochratoxin A from moderately contaminated barley lots and for citrinin added to mash.
  • (17) Rekulak said earlier this week that he had always wanted to do a mash-up of a famous literary novel.
  • (18) Three groups were fed a mineral-free mash which contained a cation exchange resin and chelator.
  • (19) Both the increase in eating rate and the decrease in intake, at high sucrose concentration, were markedly attenuated in stressed animals (which therefore had higher intakes of very sweet mash and lower rates of eating, relative to control animals).
  • (20) Heating of enterotoxin-containing tempe mash reduced enterotoxin A by 99.7% as measured with ELISA and animal feeding methods.

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