Gash vs Interstice - What's the difference?
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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]:
(slang, vulgar) A vulva, pussy
* 1959 , , (Naked Lunch) , 50th anniversary edition (2009),
(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.
To make a deep, long cut, to slash.
A small opening or space between objects, especially adjacent objects or objects set closely together, as between cords in a rope or components of a multiconductor electrical cable or between atoms in a crystal.
An interval of time required by the Roman Catholic Church between the attainment of different degrees of an order.
By extension, a small interval of time free to be spent on activities other than one's primary goal.
Figuratively, a fragment of space
* 2013 , Simon Jenkins, Gibraltar and the Falklands deny the logic of history'' (in ''The Guardian , 14 August 2013)[http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/14/gibraltar-falklands-deny-logic-history]
Gash is a related term of interstice.
As nouns the difference between gash and interstice
is that gash is a deep cut while interstice is a small opening or space between objects, especially adjacent objects or objects set closely together, as between cords in a rope or components of a multiconductor electrical cable or between atoms in a crystal.As a verb gash
is to make a deep, long cut, to slash.gash
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(gashes)- 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.
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- “Oh Gertie it’s true. It’s all true. They’ve got a horrid gash instead of a thrilling thing.”
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(en noun)- Relics of the British empire now mostly survive in the interstices of the global economy. They are the major winners from the fiscal haemorrhage that has resulted from financial globalisation.