What's the difference between sash and swash?

Sash


Definition:

  • (n.) A scarf or band worn about the waist, over the shoulder, or otherwise; a belt; a girdle, -- worn by women and children as an ornament; also worn as a badge of distinction by military officers, members of societies, etc.
  • (v. t.) To adorn with a sash or scarf.
  • (n.) The framing in which the panes of glass are set in a glazed window or door, including the narrow bars between the panes.
  • (n.) In a sawmill, the rectangular frame in which the saw is strained and by which it is carried up and down with a reciprocating motion; -- also called gate.
  • (v. t.) To furnish with a sash or sashes; as, to sash a door or a window.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Attach self-adhesive foam strips, or metal strips with brushes or wipers attached, to window, door and loft-hatch frames (if you have sash windows, it's better to ask a professional to do it).
  • (2) In March 1990, in a ceremony in the new Congress building built by Pinochet in his home town of Valparaiso - 80 miles from the capital, Santiago, and intended to remain well out of mind of the real centres of power - a sombre Pinochet handed the presidential sash over to Aylwin.
  • (3) The extravasation of contrast medium was seen in a sash like fashion through arterial and venous phase.
  • (4) The fast-talking 61-year-old shakes hands with one wearing a tiara and sash reading “Miss Columbus”, from a beauty pageant to celebrate its namesake’s arrival in North America.
  • (5) The painting depicts him in crisp white military tunic with cap, spectacles and green sash, his hands gripping a rail as if surveying an adoring public.
  • (6) A sash-like cord used to strangle Grove was still knotted around his neck.
  • (7) Thinking they meant Sash!, a European dance act, he said no and was promptly beaten up.
  • (8) So the Zeiss girls turned up: blondes with big makeup and swimsuits with sashes saying Zeiss.
  • (9) The fight to make today better must become your central task.” *** A presidential sash with the pale blue and white stripes of Uruguay sits in a glass-topped box in Julio María Sanguinetti’s book-lined, sombre study in a house on a quiet street near Punta Carretas.
  • (10) She was just standing by the big sash window in her bedroom when she spotted Mrs Thatcher "toddling" around the hospital gardens unguarded.
  • (11) Zheng and her friends have natty red sashes and a large banner that says: "Honoured to take part in the election for the people's congress".
  • (12) Cervical spine injuries associated with three-point fixation lap-sash seat belts result from impact against the sash.
  • (13) Worn-out sliding sash windows can be replaced with double-glazed, draughtproofed ones.
  • (14) Sash (WshWsh) epidermis can support melanocyte differentiation and pigment production but lacks functional melanocytes.
  • (15) Then, as a final insult, he added a personal observation: that Marino, who wore a customary mayoral sash to his meeting with the pope in Philadelphia, “really looked like a fool”.
  • (16) The garish sashes were introduced to distinguish the non-uniformed militias from an enemy who favour the same get-up of traditional Afghan garb and AK-47 slung over the shoulder.
  • (17) The president and Mrs Reagan stood on a special platform on the South Lawn to greet Jackson, who wore a military jacket with sequins, plus floppy gold epaulettes and a gold sash, a single white glove with rhinestones, large dark glasses and full stage make-up.
  • (18) If success is measured by the quality of one's view, then Ekow Eshun has done very well: step out of the high sash window in his room at the Institute of Contemporary Arts and on to the roof, and a tourist's idea of London unfolds as far as the eye can see – Big Ben, parliament, the London Eye; the Mall, St James's Park.
  • (19) But though the window is heavy, and sometimes shudders in its frame, the sash slides smoothly upwards.
  • (20) But in July 2011, evidence of various unauthorised third-party deductions from beneficiaries’ bank accounts started to emerge, says Thandiwe Zulu, provincial director of Black Sash , a human rights organisation.

Swash


Definition:

  • (v. t.) An oval figure, whose moldings are oblique to the axis of the work.
  • (v. t.) Soft, like fruit too ripe; swashy.
  • (v. i.) To dash or flow noisily, as water; to splash; as, water swashing on a shallow place.
  • (v. i.) To fall violently or noisily.
  • (v. i.) To bluster; to make a great noise; to vapor or brag.
  • (n.) Impulse of water flowing with violence; a dashing or splashing of water.
  • (n.) A narrow sound or channel of water lying within a sand bank, or between a sand bank and the shore, or a bar over which the sea washes.
  • (n.) Liquid filth; wash; hog mash.
  • (n.) A blustering noise; a swaggering behavior.
  • (n.) A swaggering fellow; a swasher.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) looking back over the series, which finished on Friday with Joe Swash crowned king of the jungle.
  • (2) Joe Swash's crowning as the king of the jungle brought a peak audience of 9.7 million to ITV1's I'm a Celebrity … Get Me Out of Here!
  • (3) However, as my colleague Rosie Swash detailed in her article , the thigh gap obsession is not good.
  • (4) Well Happy, which launched at the healthcare innovation expo on 13 March , has also been supported by various celebrities including singer Joss Stone, former Eastenders' star Joe Swash, designer Sadie Frost and actor Ralph Little.
  • (5) The case against Maybe ease up on the ye-olde-smugglers-yo-ho-ho-and-a-bottle-of-rum schtick: sometimes you don't want your swashes to be buckled.
  • (6) The Cube is for people who PVR then series-link Hole In The Wall, then need to Stain Devil urine out of their pouffe because Joe Swash was knocked into a paddling pool wearing a Bacofoil catsuit while imitating the Pharaoh Rameses.
  • (7) Rosie Swash Mendelssohn's Octet I cry all the time at music.
  • (8) I've asked Rosie Swash about the Stand By Your... rumours.
  • (9) Months earlier, Prigoff had travelled to Boston to photograph the Rainbow Swash, a series of bright, colorful stripes painted on a 140-foot gas storage tank in Dorchester.
  • (10) He hasn’t changed his hairstyle, either, though it is trying to get away from his eyebrows, and he’s wearing a cool leather jacket and generally looks ready to swash a buckle or two despite being fully 72 years old.
  • (11) Rufus Hound is saying goodbye, and according to Rosie Swash, the warm-up man is on.
  • (12) ldn.ihollaback.org Rosie Swash is a music writer for the Guardian
  • (13) I had a problem with my antiquated machine (it's so old some of the keys have their letters written in pen) but that's all over now... 7.01pm: So as guests pass up the red carpet scramble for their seats (our v own Rosie Swash has blagged her way into the hall and should be keeping us updated with gossip - or at least what's she's eating for dinner) time to update you as to what to expect tonight.
  • (14) Swash suggested that progressive denervation of the stretched pelvic sphincter musculature that occurs in genuine stress incontinence is due to repeated stretch injury of the innervation of these muscles when the pelvic floor diaphragm is weak.
  • (15) Rosie Swash will be here to take you through the night’s fashion thrills and fails, whereas I (Tim Jonze) will be keeping you updated with any gossip from the O2 and perhaps even some interesting facts about tonight’s ceremony.
  • (16) Prigoff explained his Rainbow Swash incident, the only thing that came to mind from Boston that he reasoned could have prompted Ayaz's contact.
  • (17) This column has always given a big thumbs-up to Madame Caryn Franklin , but her contention in Swash's piece that young women aspiring to unachievable physical ideals is a new development won't quite do.
  • (18) As it happens, the Rainbow Swash is readily visible on Google Images.
  • (19) Spokesman Jason Holmes told the Guardian's Rosie Swash that almost 15,000 vehicles have already arrived on site and that "excitement levels are high" ahead of the England v Slovenia match this afternoon.
  • (20) This beat last year's final, which peaked at 9.7 million and saw Joe Swash crowned King of the Jungle .