Mash vs Net - What's the difference?

mash | net |

In obsolete terms the difference between mash and net

is that mash is the object of one’s affections either sex while net is good, desirable; clean, decent, clear.

In transitive terms the difference between mash and net

is that mash is to press down hard (on) while net is to yield as profit for.

As an acronym MASH

is mobile Army Surgical Hospital.

As an adjective net is

good, desirable; clean, decent, clear.

As an adverb net is

after expenses or deductions.

As a proper noun Net is

the Internet.

mash

English

Etymology 1

See mesh

Noun

(es)

(obsolete) A mesh

Etymology 2

From (etyl) mash, . See (l).

Noun

(uncountable) A mass of mixed ingredients reduced to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure; a mass of anything in a soft pulpy state.

In brewing, ground or bruised malt, or meal of rye, wheat, corn, or other grain (or a mixture of malt and meal) steeped and stirred in hot water for making the wort.

Mashed potatoes.

A mixture of meal or bran and water fed to animals.

(obsolete): A mess; trouble.

(Beaumont and Fletcher)

Derived terms

* mash tun * mash vat

Verb

(es)

To convert into a mash; to reduce to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure; to bruise; to crush; as, to mash apples in a mill, or potatoes with a pestle. Specifically (Brewing), to convert, as malt, or malt and meal, into the mash which makes wort.

To press down hard (on).

to mash on a bicycle pedal

(transitive, southern US, informal) to press.

(UK) To prepare a cup of tea (in a teapot), alternative to brew; used mainly in Northern England

* 1913 ,

He took the kettle off the fire and mashed the tea.

Derived terms

* mashing * mashed potato, mashed potatoes * bangers and mash * mashup

Etymology 3

Either Mash Note] at World Wide Words[http://books.google.com/books?id=j41z0yeKbeIC&pg=PA195&dq=masher The City in Slang], by Irving L. Allen, [http://books.google.com/books?id=j41z0yeKbeIC&pg=PA195&dq=masher p. 195] by analogy withThe Barnhart Concise Dictionary of Etymology,'' as cited at [http://www.grammarphobia.com/blog/2007/03/mash-notes.html The Grammarphobia Blog: Mash notes], March 16, 2007 . Originally used in theater,Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang and recorded in US in 1870s. Either originally used as mash, or a backformation from (masher), from (masha). Leland writes of the etymology:Preface to poem “The Masher”, in his ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=B2GmNo96450C Songs of the Sea and Lays of the Land], [http://books.google.com/books?id=B2GmNo96450C&printsec=frontcover

PPA243,M1 p. 243] ([http://www.archive.org/stream/songsofthesea00lelarich/songsofthesea00lelarich_djvu.txt full text)

: It was introduced by the well-known gypsy family of actors, C., among whom Romany was habitually spoken. The word “masher” or “mash” means in that tongue to allure, delude, or entice. It was doubtless much aided in its popularity by its quasi-identity with the English word. But there can be no doubt as to the gypsy origin of “mash” as used on the stage. I am indebted for this information to the late well-known impresario [Albert Marshall] Palmer of New York, and I made a note of it years before the term had become at all popular.

Verb

to flirt, to make eyes, to make romantic advances

Noun

(es)

(obsolete) an infatuation, a crush, a fancy

(obsolete) a dandy, a masher

(obsolete) the object of one’s affections (either sex)

Derived terms

* (l) * (l)

References

Anagrams

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net

English

(NET)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)

A mesh of string, cord or rope.

A device made from such mesh, used for catching fish, butterflies, etc.

, title= Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand. We spent consider'ble money getting 'em reset, and then a swordfish got into the pound and tore the nets all to slathers, right in the middle of the squiteague season.}}

A device made from such mesh, generally used for trapping something.

Anything that has the appearance of such a device.

(by extension) A trap.

* Bible, Proverbs xxix. 5

A man that flattereth his neighbor spreadeth a net for his feet.

(geometry) Of a polyhedron, any set of polygons joined edge to edge that, when folded along the edges between adjoining polygons so that the outer edges touch, form the polyhedron.

A system that interconnects a number of users, locations etc. allowing transport or communication between them, e.g. computer ~, road ~, electricity distribution ~.

(sports) A framework backed by a mesh, serving as the goal in hockey, soccer, lacrosse, etc.

* {{quote-news, year=2010, date=December 29, author=Mark Vesty, work=BBC

, title= Wigan 2-2 Arsenal , passage=Wigan had N'Zogbia sent off late on but Squillaci headed into his own net to give the home side a deserved point.}}

(sports, tennis) A mesh stretched to divide the court in tennis, badminton, volleyball, etc.

Synonyms

* (mesh) mesh, network * (used for catching or trapping) * snare, trap * (anything that has the appearance of a net) reticulation * (in geometry) development * (in computing) network

Derived terms

* fishnet * hairnet * hit the net * internet * netting * network * neural net * Petri net * safety net

Verb

(nett)

To catch by means of a net.

(figuratively) To catch in a trap, or by stratagem.

* Sir Walter Scott

And now I am here, netted and in the toils.

To enclose or cover with a net.

to net a tree

(football) To score (a goal).

Evans netted the winner in the 80th minute.

* 2012 , Chelsea 6-0 Wolves [http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/19632463]

Romeu then scored a penalty, Torres netted a header and Moses added the sixth from substitute Oscar's cross.

(tennis) To hit the ball into the net.

* {{quote-news

, year=2011 , date=June 28 , author=David Ornstein , title=Wimbledon 2011: Victoria Azarenka beats Tamira Paszek in quarters , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Azarenka whipped a sensational forehand around the net post to break for 2-0 in the second set, followed it up with a love hold and moved to 5-1 when Paszek netted a forehand.}}

To form network or netting; to knit.

Synonyms

* (catch by means of a net) catch * (to trap) catch, ensnare, entrap, snare, trap

Etymology 2

From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) (m), from (etyl) (m). Compare (m), (m).

Alternative forms

* nett

Adjective

(-)

(obsolete) Good, desirable; clean, decent, clear.

* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.xii:

Her brest all naked, as net iuory, / Without adorne of gold or siluer bright

Free from extraneous substances; pure; unadulterated; neat.

net wine

Remaining after expenses or deductions.

net''' profit''; '''''net weight

Final; end.

net''' result''; '''''net conclusion

Derived terms

* net income * net loss * net weight

Adverb

(-)

after expenses or deductions

You'll have $5000 net .

(after expenses or deductions) * German: (t) (trans-mid) (trans-bottom)

Noun

(en noun)

The amount remaining after expenses are deducted; profit.

Verb

(nett)

To receive as profit.

The company nets $30 on every sale.

To yield as profit for.

The scam netted the criminals $30,000.

To fully hedge a position.

Every party is netting their position with a counter-party

Anagrams

* (l), (l), (l) English terms with multiple etymologies 1000 English basic words ----