What's the difference between muse and mush?

Muse


Definition:

  • (n.) A gap or hole in a hedge, hence, wall, or the like, through which a wild animal is accustomed to pass; a muset.
  • (n.) One of the nine goddesses who presided over song and the different kinds of poetry, and also the arts and sciences; -- often used in the plural.
  • (n.) A particular power and practice of poetry.
  • (n.) A poet; a bard.
  • (n.) To think closely; to study in silence; to meditate.
  • (n.) To be absent in mind; to be so occupied in study or contemplation as not to observe passing scenes or things present; to be in a brown study.
  • (n.) To wonder.
  • (v. t.) To think on; to meditate on.
  • (v. t.) To wonder at.
  • (n.) Contemplation which abstracts the mind from passing scenes; absorbing thought; hence, absence of mind; a brown study.
  • (n.) Wonder, or admiration.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Rather than his extensive musings on art and politics, Morris is perhaps better known for his wallpaper and fabric designs of the late Victorian period.
  • (2) But if you have less financial support, that difference does hit you.” “As a generation, I don’t think we take enough interest in what’s going on,” she muses.
  • (3) There’s something rather Churchillian about him,” mused one of David Davis’s admirers in a recent TV profile.
  • (4) I might play him at centre-forward next time,” Hodgson mused.
  • (5) Cotton's interview with Paloma Faith on Tuesday in which the singer plugged her latest recording and mused about royal memorabilia such as a diamond jubilee sick bag has attracted particular criticism.
  • (6) Chris – lassoed from a parallel universe where Tom Cruise gave Hollywood a swerve to focus on taking his guitar-alt-musings to open mic spots instead – looks on, coldly dissecting technique and cutting to seduction tips.
  • (7) When the narrative voice ventriloquises the metamorphosed Gregor to muse "Was he an animal if music could captivate him so?
  • (8) Asked about the status of his own job, the press secretary joked “I’m right here”, telling reporters, in a belligerent line that could have been uttered by his impersonator Melissa McCarthy: “You can keep taking your selfies.” The president was busy sowing confusion by trying a new passive-aggressive tone on Twitter , musing: “While I greatly appreciate the efforts of President Xi & China to help with North Korea, it has not worked out.
  • (9) At first Sabry was just talking to his friends, posting idiosyncratic yarns or musings that gently push at social mores.
  • (10) With respect to the MUSE 11 antigen, positive incidence was found in 17 out of 26 pancreatic cancer patients (65%), and in 1 out of 13 chronic pancreatitis patients (8%).
  • (11) He muses that they may not have found the right approach.
  • (12) In the end it's maybe just cultural differences and an ability to align personal with corporate longer term goals," he muses.
  • (13) The cover art for the Cranberries' Bury the Hatchet (1999) was an evocation of paranoia – a giant eye bearing down on a crouching figure – that did neither band nor artist many favours; his image for Muse's Black Holes and Revelations (2006) amounted to a thin revival of his work for the Floyd that, if you were being generous, suggested a wry comment on that band's unconvincing attempts to revive the excesses of 1970s progressive rock.
  • (14) This article contains personal and professional musings on becoming and being an old woman.
  • (15) Twin muses of Liam Gallagher and Jimi Hendrix added up to louche tailoring, flower prints and urban staples like a swagger-tastic Gallagher parka.
  • (16) Mixed into that are musings on Darwin and the Catholic church, a tender reflection on the death of her dog Lolabelle, and more than a few corny jokes, delivered with her hypnotic, almost disbelieving pitch.
  • (17) But sadly, mainstream music culture has always thrived on competition, creating what the media always calls "catfights", says Kristin Hersh, now a solo artist, but in the 80s the frontwoman of the influential American band Throwing Muses.
  • (18) But then you might been seen as a separatist,” the presenter mused.
  • (19) And last week, he let his exasperation be known on Twitter – first taking aim at the Washington Post for quoting anonymous sources while musing about his future and then chastising NBC’s Today show for producing a political package from a tour he took of an embattled housing complex in Jacksonville, Florida, subsidized by the federal government.
  • (20) He mused: "It's a unique opportunity for a journalist to be in this environment.

Mush


Definition:

  • (n.) Meal (esp. Indian meal) boiled in water; hasty pudding; supawn.
  • (v. t.) To notch, cut, or indent, as cloth, with a stamp.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Obama doesn't have much to say, and neither does Mitt Romney but after that Libya cock-up his brain is mush and he starts going on about two parent families – what?
  • (2) To be sure, it is suffocating, narrow and on the edge of a descent into a mediocre mush.
  • (3) The roots of mush maternal mortality lie in discrimination agianst women, in terms of legal status and access to education, financial resources and health care, including family planning.
  • (4) 8.29pm BST They are "putting the mush in the brain and the lid on the brain and the brain in the fridge".
  • (5) Hence even though The Friday Times published Mush and Bush during General Musharraf’s regime, it escaped censure.
  • (6) The Friday Times, a weekly from Lahore, has published a series of fictitious satirical diaries over the years: Dear Diary by Benazir Bhutto; Ittefaqnama by Nawaz Sharif (the current prime minister); Mush and Bush, a telephone conversation between General Musharraf and President Bush; Howzzat by Im the Dim (Imran Khan) – all written by the publisher, Jugnu Mohsin.
  • (7) And as I write, he cops a solid whack to the mush in round three.
  • (8) Bring to the boil, then reduce the heat to a gentle simmer and cook for 40-60 minutes or until the lentils are soft and start to mush, becoming sauce-like.
  • (9) In public life we often hear politicians slipping into management mush.
  • (10) Arguing that the film's promotion of partisan political views was "irremediable" and that it contained scientific inaccuracies and "sentimental mush", Mr Dimmock attempted to get the film totally banned from schools in England.
  • (11) Sherman's work has always been a vibrant mush of ideas.
  • (12) As I was standing, with a sodden piece of cardboard around my neck, slowly turning to mush in the rain, knowing that the pre-sales to the show were nil, I saw one of my former colleagues walk towards me.
  • (13) I knocked out several bestsellers while sitting on the balcony of my old apartment in the middle of Bangkok, but put me in the countryside and my brain turns to mush.
  • (14) We must “stop China’s cyber attacks, stop their territorial expansion into international waters,” stop Russia from “[encountering] mush” and “pushing” with bayonets, make sure Israel isn’t having a sad, cripple Iran with sanctions and ignore everything about climate change because “the greatest threat to future generations is radical Islamic terrorism and we need to do something about it.” The great thing about ignoring science and practicality while threatening to go to war against more than 1.5bn people around the globe is that, if there are any enemy survivors after the bombing stops, they can sail to the port city of Orlando and gawk enviously at all the free people queuing up for their mandatory drug tests atop a natural gas pipeline But don’t sell Walker short on his zero foreign policy experience.
  • (15) The good news, though, "from your point of view", was that "the first few times I opened it up, after having obeyed every single instruction, all there seemed to be was a bit of mush in the bottom."
  • (16) Mush of the data obtained were interpreted as being compatible with the elft atrial volume-receptor hypothesis, but very liggle of the data pertained to left atrial receptors specifically.
  • (17) My God … I watched all 20 minutes of Sarah Palin’s mush-mouthed, meandering speech and analyzed it for you, but first, I’d like to offer up these five quotes.
  • (18) In sitcom after sitcom and movie after movie, and in his other job as a voiceover actor and artist, he has staked a place for himself as perhaps the most aggressively amusing, terrifying, vanity-free and daring of post-Apatow, post-Seinfeld comic actors – an incredibly dependable and omnipresent A-type bully and crybaby with a heart of pure mush.
  • (19) But Labour's answer is a warm, statist mush, wishing good things for everyone, but most of all a powerful state helping grateful citizens.
  • (20) He then lapses into a mush of critical theory about how he assembles his influences.

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