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Mash is a related term of press.


As an acronym mash

is mobile army surgical hospital.

As a noun press is

(lb) a device used to apply pressure to an item.

As a verb press is

(ambitransitive) to exert weight or force against, to act upon with with force or weight.

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

    * * * *

    press

    English

    Etymology 1

    (etyl) ).

    Noun

  • (lb) A device used to apply pressure to an item.
  • :
  • #(lb) A printing machine.
  • #:
  • (lb) A collective term for the print-based media (both the people and the newspapers).
  • :
  • *, chapter=22
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=From another point of view, it was a place without a soul. The well-to-do had hearts of stone; the rich were brutally bumptious; the Press , the Municipality, all the public men, were ridiculously, vaingloriously self-satisfied.}}
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist), author=Lexington
    • , title= Keeping the mighty honest , passage=British journalists shun complete respectability, feeling a duty to be ready to savage the mighty, or rummage through their bins. Elsewhere in Europe, government contracts and subsidies ensure that press barons will only defy the mighty so far.}}
  • (lb) A publisher.
  • (lb) (especially in Ireland and Scotland) An enclosed storage space (e.g. closet, cupboard).
  • :
  • *
  • *:But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. ¶.
  • An exercise in which weight is forced away from the body by extension of the arms or legs.
  • *1974 , Charles Gaines & George Butler, Pumping Iron: The Art and Sport of Bodybuilding , p.22:
  • *:This is the fourth set of benchpresses. There will be five more; then there will be five sets of presses on an inclined bench.
  • An additional bet in a golf match that duplicates an existing (usually losing) wager in value, but begins even at the time of the bet.
  • :
  • (lb) Pure, unfermented grape juice.
  • :
  • A commission to force men into public service, particularly into the navy.
  • *(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
  • *:I have misused the king's press .
    • Synonyms
    * (storage space) closet, cupboard, wardrobe (British ) * (printing machine) printing press
    Derived terms
    * alternative press * bench press * fruit press * press cake * press gang * press-mark * press officer * press secretary * shoulder press * trouser press

    Etymology 2

    (etyl) .

    Verb

  • (ambitransitive) to exert weight or force against, to act upon with with force or weight
  • to compress, squeeze
    • to press fruit for the purpose of extracting the juice
  • to clasp, hold in an embrace; to hug
    • She took her son, and press'd
    The illustrious infant to her fragrant breast'' (''Dryden , Illiad, VI. 178.)
  • to reduce to a particular shape or form by pressure, especially flatten or smooth
    • to press cloth with an iron
    to press a hat
  • (sewing) To flatten a selected area of fabric using an iron with an up-and-down, not sliding, motion, so as to avoid disturbing adjacent areas.
  • to drive or thrust by pressure, to force in a certain direction
    • to press a crowd back
  • (obsolete) to weigh upon, oppress, trouble
    • He turns from us;
    Alas, he weeps too! Something presses him
    He would reveal, but dare not.-Sir, be comforted.'' (''Fletcher , Pilgrim, I. 2.)
  • to force to a certain end or result; to urge strongly, impel
  • *
    • The two gentlemen who conducted me to the island were pressed by their private affairs to return in three days.
  • To try to force (something upon someone); to urge or inculcate.
    • to press the Bible on an audience
  • * Dryden
    • He pressed a letter upon me within this hour.
  • * Addison
    • Be sure to press upon him every motive.
  • to hasten, urge onward
    • to press a horse in a race
  • to urge, beseech, entreat
    • God heard their prayers, wherein they earnestly pressed him for the honor of his great name.'' (''Winthrop , Hist. New England, II. 35)
  • to lay stress upon, emphasize
    • If we read but a very little, we naturally want to press it all; if we read a great deal, we are willing not to press the whole of what we read, and we learn what ought to be pressed and what not.'' (''M. Arnold , Literature and Dogma, Pref.)
  • (ambitransitive) to throng, crowd
  • (obsolete) to print
  • To force into service, particularly into naval service.
  • * Dryden
    • To peaceful peasant to the wars is pressed .
    Quotations
    * (English Citations of "press")
    Synonyms
    * *
    Derived terms
    * press charges * press on

    See also

    * hot press (baking, laundry) * hot off the press (printing) * press down

    References

    * Entry for the imperfect and past participle in Webster's dictionary * *

    Anagrams

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