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Mashing vs Washing - What's the difference?

mashing | washing |

As verbs the difference between mashing and washing

is that mashing is while washing is .

As nouns the difference between mashing and washing

is that mashing is the action of soaking malted barley etc, in order to convert starch into sugars as part of the brewing process while washing is (uncountable) the action of the verb to wash .

mashing

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Verb

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    • Noun

    (wikipedia mashing) (en noun)
  • The action of soaking malted barley etc., in order to convert starch into sugars as part of the brewing process.
  • * 1835 , Robert Dundas Thomson, ?Thomas Thomson, Records of General Science (volume 2, page 459)
    • More hot water is added, and the mashing process repeated, until the grain has been wholly deprived of its saccharine matter, which is generally accomplished by three, or at the most, four mashings
  • Preparing tea (in a teapot).

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    washing

    English

    Noun

  • (uncountable) The action of the verb to wash
  • (uncountable, chiefly, British, NZ) Clothing, bed linen or soft furnishings that have been, are currently being, or are to be washed; laundry.
  • * My mother used to do the washing on a Monday
  • (countable, often in the plural) The residue after an ore, etc, has been washed
  • * The washings have a higher concentration of metal
  • The liquid used to wash an ore.
  • A place where a precious metal found in gravel is separated from lighter material by washing.
    • the gold-washings''', or silver-'''washings

    Synonyms

    * (articles that have been or are to be washed): laundry (especially US)

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