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MASH
(măsh)abbr.
Mobile Army Surgical Hospital
mash
(măsh)n.
1. A mixture of malt or other ingredients with water, heated to convert starches into fermentable sugars for use in brewing or distilling.
2. A mixture of ground grain and nutrients fed to livestock and fowl.
3. A soft pulpy mixture or mass.
4. Chiefly British Mashed potatoes.
5. A crushing or grinding.
6. Slang An infatuation or act of flirtation.
tr.v. mashed, mash·ing, mash·es
Phrasal Verb: 1. To convert (malt or grain) into mash.
2. To convert into a soft pulpy mass by pounding or crushing: mash potatoes. See Synonyms at crush.
3. Chiefly Southern & South Midland US To apply pressure to; press.
4. Slang To flirt with or make sexual advances to.
mash up
To combine (two or more audio or video recordings) to produce a composite recording.
[Middle English mash- (as in mashfat, mash tub), from Old English *māsc, *mǣsc, māx- (in māxwyrt, wort); see meik- in Indo-European roots. V., sense 4, perhaps from Romani mash, to entice.]
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mash
(mæʃ)n
1. a soft pulpy mass or consistency
2. (Agriculture) agriculture a feed of bran, meal, or malt mixed with water and fed to horses, cattle, or poultry
3. (Brewing) (esp in brewing) a mixture of mashed malt grains and hot water, from which malt is extracted
4. (Cookery) informal Brit mashed potatoes
5. (Cookery) dialect Northern English a brew of tea
vb (tr)
6. to beat or crush into a mash
7. (Brewing) to steep (malt grains) in hot water in order to extract malt, esp for making malt liquors
8. (Cookery) dialect Northern English to brew (tea)
9. archaic to flirt with
[Old English mǣsc- (in compound words); related to Middle Low German mēsch]
mashed adj
ˈmasher n
MASH
(mæʃ)(in the US) n acronym for
(Military) Mobile Army Surgical Hospital
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mash
(mæʃ)v.t.
1. to reduce to a soft pulpy mass by beating or pressure: to mash turnips.
2. to crush.
3. to mix (crushed malt or meal of grain) with hot water to form wort.
n. 4. a soft pulpy mass.
5. a pulpy condition.
6. a mixture of boiled grain, bran, meal, etc., fed to livestock.
7. crushed malt or grain meal mixed with hot water to form wort.
n. 8. infatuation.
v.t. 9. to flirt with.
[before 1000; Old English mǣsc-, masc-]
n., v. mashed, mash•ing. Older Slang.
[1880–85; orig. theatrical argot; of uncertain orig.]
MASH
(mæʃ)n.
mobile army surgical hospital.
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mash
- bangers and mash - Sausage and mashed potatoes.
- farrago - From Latin, originally "a mash for feeding cattle"; later, figuratively, a medley or hodgepodge.
- mash - Originally malt mixed with hot water, to make wort.
- mush, moosh - Mush and moosh (nouns) are variations on mash.
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mash
Past participle: mashed
Gerund: mashing
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| Noun | 1. |  mash - a mixture of mashed malt grains and hot water; used in brewingsuspension - a mixture in which fine particles are suspended in a fluid where they are supported by buoyancy sour mash - a mash with optimum acidity for yeast fermentation; a mixture of old and new mash; used in distilling some whiskeys |
| 2. | mash - mixture of ground animal feeds chicken feed, scratch - dry mash for poultry | |
| Verb | 1. |  mash - to compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition; "crush an aluminum can"; "squeeze a lemon"wring - twist, squeeze, or compress in order to extract liquid; "wring the towels" press - exert pressure or force to or upon; "He pressed down on the boards"; "press your thumb on this spot" stamp - crush or grind with a heavy instrument; "stamp fruit extract the juice" steamroller - crush with a steamroller as if to level; "steamroller the road" tread - crush as if by treading on; "tread grapes to make wine" telescope - crush together or collapse; "In the accident, the cars telescoped"; "my hiking sticks telescope and can be put into the backpack" |
| 2. |  mash - talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions; "The guys always try to chat up the new secretaries"; "My husband never flirts with other women"talk, speak - exchange thoughts; talk with; "We often talk business"; "Actions talk louder than words" wanton - engage in amorous play vamp - act seductively with (someone) | |
| 3. | mash - reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading; "grind the spices in a mortar"; "mash the garlic" pulp - reduce to pulp; "pulp fruit"; "pulp wood" pestle - grind, mash or pulverize in a mortar; "pestle the garlic" mill - grind with a mill; "mill grain" fragment, fragmentise, fragmentize, break up - break or cause to break into pieces; "The plate fragmented" |
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mash
verb smash, crush, pulp, pound, beat, whip, soften, squash, mince, purée, liquidize, macerate Mash the bananas with a fork.
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mash
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Translations
هَريسيَهْرُس
bramborová kašemačkat
grødkartoffelmosmæskmose
muhentaamuusimuussatasose
krumplipüréösszezúzzúz
stappastappaîar kartöflur
bulvių košėtrinti
kartupeļu biezenissamīcītsaspiest
zemiaková kaša
tlačiti
grötmäskmos
pürepüre haline getirmek
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
mash
[ˈmæʃ]Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005
MASH
mash
n → Brei m; (for animals) → Futterbrei m, → Schlempe f; (= potatoes) → Püree nt; (in brewing) → Maische f
vt → zerstampfen
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
mash
(mӕʃ) verb to crush into small pieces or a soft mass. Put in some butter when you mash the potatoes.
noun mashed potato. sausage and mash.
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mash
n (crushing injury) machucón m; vt machucar, aplastar, pillar (Esp)English-Spanish/Spanish-English Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.