What's the difference between mash and mast?

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.

Mast


Definition:

  • (n.) The fruit of the oak and beech, or other forest trees; nuts; acorns.
  • (n.) A pole, or long, strong, round piece of timber, or spar, set upright in a boat or vessel, to sustain the sails, yards, rigging, etc. A mast may also consist of several pieces of timber united by iron bands, or of a hollow pillar of iron or steel.
  • (n.) The vertical post of a derrick or crane.
  • (v. t.) To furnish with a mast or masts; to put the masts of in position; as, to mast a ship.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) of PLA2 caused marked degranulation of mast cells in the rat mesentery which was facilitated by addition of calcium ion (10 mM) but antagonized by pretreating with three antiinflammatory agents.
  • (2) In later phases, mast cells appeared in the newly formed marrow in the external callus.
  • (3) Our prospective study has defined a number of important variables in patients with clinical evidence of mast cell proliferation that can predict both the presence of SMCD and the likelihood of fatal disease.
  • (4) In the dark cortical zone of the nodes (III group) there occur tissue basophils (mast cells), that, together with increasing number of acidophilic granulocytes and appearance of neutrophilic cells, demonstrates that there is an inflammatory reaction in the organ studied as a response to the lymphocytic suspension injected.
  • (5) Type I and Type II mast-cell degranulation was noted but was not universal.
  • (6) They clearly demonstrate the phenomenon of mast cells degranulation.
  • (7) The early absolute but transient dependence of these A-MuLV mast cell transformants on a fibroblast feeder suggests a multistep process in their evolution, in which the acquisition of autonomy from factors of mesenchymal cell origin may play an important role.
  • (8) The findings suggest that mast cell prostaglandins are an important factor in the pathogenesis of pruritus and that local vascular responses may trigger mast cell degranulation.
  • (9) 18 patients with typical sporadic Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) were investigated by the Motor Accuracy and Speed Test (MAST) and 18 healthy age- and-sex-matched volunteers, acted as controls.
  • (10) When PMC purified to greater than 99% purity were cultured in methylcellulose with IL-3 and IL-4, approximately 25% of the PMC formed colonies, all of which contained both berberine sulfate-positive and berberine sulfate-negative mast cells.
  • (11) But we sent out reconnoitres in the morning; we send out a team in advance and they get halfway down the road, maybe a quarter of the way down the road, sometimes three-quarters of the way down the road – we tried this three days in a row – and then the shelling starts and while I can’t point the finger at who starts the shelling, we get the absolute assurances from the Ukraine government that it’s not them.” Flags on all Australian government buildings will be flown at half-mast on Thursday, and an interdenominational memorial service will be held at St Patrick’s cathedral in Melbourne from 10.30am.
  • (12) Mice homozygous for mutations at either locus exhibit several phenotypic abnormalities including a virtual absence of mast cells.
  • (13) This initial observation of release of eosinophil chemotactic factor of anaphylaxis in vivo along with histamine assigns the mast cell a central role in cold urticaria.
  • (14) Their presence was established both by staining for mast cells at light microscopic level and by electron microscopy.
  • (15) Pretreatment of rat peritoneal mast cells with either Staurosporine or an analog K-252a, lead to a dose-related inhibition of histamine release when stimulated with Anti-IgE (IC50: Staurosporine = 110 nM; K-252a = 100 nM).
  • (16) The ammoniacal silver method, which identifies basic proteins, gives a positive reaction in cytoplasmic granules of rat peritoneal mast cells.
  • (17) Cytokine secretion by activated lymphocytes or mast cells is preceded by dramatic stabilization of the normally labile GM-CSF mRNA.
  • (18) Forty-seven patients were brought to the Emergency Department with a good blood pressure which probably would not have existed without the use of MAST Trousers.
  • (19) Furthermore, using rat mast cells, the binding assay in conjunction with histamine releasing assay may be utilized to predict the in vivo histamine releasing potential of new LHRH peptides which are of clinical importance.
  • (20) Six dogs had increased numbers of mast cells in peripheral blood or buffy coat smears.

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