Pulp vs Mash - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between pulp and mash

is that pulp is a soft, moist, shapeless mass or matter while mash is a mesh.

As verbs the difference between pulp and mash

is that pulp is to make, or be made into pulpmash is 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.

As an adjective pulp

is of or pertaining to pulp magazines; in the style of a pulp magazine or the material printed within such a publication.

As an acronym MASH is

mobile Army Surgical Hospital.

pulp

English

(wikipedia pulp)

Adjective

(en adjective)

(fiction) Of or pertaining to pulp magazines; in the style of a pulp magazine or the material printed within such a publication.

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The Nightwing annual had what felt like a very 'pulp-ish' plot, and the Superman annual was great, with a very pulp plot and a incredible Doc Savage tribute cover.

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Rather than Asimov I might suggest Stanley Weinbaum (since he died young and early in his career, he is far more "pulp " than Asimov - and remarkably readable - there is a LANCER collection of some of his short stories).

Synonyms

* (l), (l)

Noun

(en-noun)

A soft, moist, shapeless mass or matter.

A magazine or book containing lurid subject matter]] and being characteristically [[print, printed on rough, unfinished paper.

The soft center of a fruit

The soft center of a tooth

A mixture of wood, cellulose and/or rags and water ground up to make paper.

Mass of chemically processed wood fibres (cellulose).

Derived terms

* beat to a pulp * pulp chamber * pulpaceous * pulpal * pulpament * pulpectomy * pulpify * pulpily * pulpless * pulp mill * pulpous * pulpotomy * pulpwood * pulpy

Verb

(en verb)

To make, or be made into pulp

To beat to a pulp.

Derived terms

* pulper

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)

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