What's the difference between lashing and washing?

Lashing


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of one who, or that which, lashes; castigation; chastisement.
  • (n.) See 2d Lasher.

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.

Washing


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wash
  • (n.) The act of one who washes; the act of cleansing with water; ablution.
  • (n.) The clothes washed, esp. at one time; a wash.

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 .