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Gash vs Division - What's the difference?

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Gash is a related term of division.


As nouns the difference between gash and division

is that gash is a deep cut while division is division.

As a verb gash

is to make a deep, long cut, to slash.

gash

English

Noun

(gashes)
  • A deep cut.
  • * 2006 , New York Times, “Bush Mourns 9/11 at Ground Zero as N.Y. Remembers”, [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/11/nyregion/nyregionspecial3/11bush.html?hp&ex=1158033600&en=e468f88da52557ed&ei=5094&partner=homepage]:
  • Vowing that he was “never going to forget the lessons of that day,” President Bush paid tribute last night to the victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack, laying wreaths at ground zero, attending a prayer service at St. Paul’s Chapel and making a surprise stop at a firehouse and a memorial museum overlooking the vast gash in the ground where the twin towers once stood.
  • (slang, vulgar) A vulva, pussy
  • * 1959 , , (Naked Lunch) , 50th anniversary edition (2009), p. 126:
  • “Oh Gertie it’s true. It’s all true. They’ve got a horrid gash instead of a thrilling thing.”
  • (slang, offensive) A woman
  • (slang, British Royal Navy) Rubbish, spare kit
  • (slang) Rubbish on board an aircraft
  • (slang) Unused film or sound during film editing
  • (slang) Poor quality beer, usually watered down.
  • Verb

    (es)
  • To make a deep, long cut, to slash.
  • Anagrams

    * *

    division

    Noun

  • (uncountable) The act or process of dividing anything.
  • Each of the separate parts of something resulting from division.
  • (arithmetic, uncountable) The process of dividing a number by another.
  • (arithmetic) A calculation that involves this process.
  • I've got ten divisions to do for my homework.
  • (military) A formation, usually made up of two or three brigades.
  • A section of a large company.
  • (biology, taxonomy) A rank (Latin divisio ) below kingdom and above class, particularly used of plants]] or [[fungus, fungi, also (particularly of animals) called a phylum; a taxon at that rank
  • Magnolias belong to the division Magnoliophyta.
  • A disagreement; a difference of viewpoint between two sides of an argument.
  • (music) A florid instrumental variation of a melody in the 17th and 18th centuries, originally conceived as the dividing of each of a succession of long notes into several short ones.
  • (music) A set of pipes in a pipe organ which are independently controlled and supplied.
  • (legal) A concept whereby a common group of debtors are only responsible for their proportionate sum of the total debt.
  • (computing) Any of the four major parts of a COBOL program source code
  • (UK, Eton College) A lesson; a class.
  • Derived terms

    * divisional * division of labour * data division * environment division * identification division * procedure division * (military) square division * (military) triangular division

    Synonyms

    * split, lith

    Antonyms

    * (making of one thing into two or more things) combination, fusion, merger, unification * multiplication

    See also

    * separation * addition, summation: (augend) + (addend) = (summand) × (summand) = (sum, total) * subtraction: (minuend) ? (subtrahend) = (difference) * multiplication: (multiplier) × (multiplicand) = (factor) × (factor) = (product) * division: (dividend) ÷ (divisor) = (quotient), remainder left over if divisor does not divide dividend * denominator * fraction * numerator ----