Must vs Mash - What's the difference?
must | mash |
to do with certainty; (indicates that the speaker is certain that the subject will have executed the predicate)
The property of being stale or musty
Something that exhibits the property of being stale or musty
Fruit juice that will ferment or has fermented, usually grapes
* Longfellow
A time during which male elephants exhibit increased levels of sexual activity and aggressiveness (also musth)
* 1936 , George Orwell, Shooting an Elephant'' essay in magazine ''New Writing
(obsolete) A mesh
(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.
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).
(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 ,
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.
to flirt, to make eyes, to make romantic advances
(obsolete) an infatuation, a crush, a fancy
(obsolete) a dandy, a masher
(obsolete) the object of one’s affections (either sex)
As a verb must
is to do with certainty; (indicates that the speaker is certain that the subject will have executed the predicate) or must can be to make musty.As a noun must
is something that is mandatory or required or must can be the property of being stale or musty or must can be a time during which male elephants exhibit increased levels of sexual activity and aggressiveness (also musth) .As an acronym mash is
mobile army surgical hospital.must
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) . More at .Verb
(head)- If it has rained all day, it must be very wet outside.
- You picked one of two, and it wasn't the first: it must have been the second.
- The children must be asleep by now.
- You must arrive in class on time. — the requirement is an imperative
- This door handle must be rotated fully. — the requirement is a directive
- Arise, and go into the city, and it shall be told thee what thou must do. (Bible, Acts 9:6)
Quotations
* 1936 , , More Poems , IX, lines 3-6 *: Forth I wander, forth I must , *: And drink of life again. *: Forth I must by hedgerow bowers *: To look at the leaves uncurled * 1937 J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit *: We must away ere break of day *: To seek the pale enchanted gold. * 1968 Fritz Leiber, Swords in the Mist *: Whereupon while one patched or napped, the other must stand guard against inquisitive two- and three-headed dragons and even an occasional monocephalic.Usage notes
* (sense) Compare with weaker auxiliary verb (should), indicating a strong probability of the predicate's execution. * (sense) Compare with weaker auxiliary verb (should), indicating mere intent for the predicate's execution; and stronger auxiliary verb (will), indicating that the negative consequence will be unusually severe. * The past tense of "must" is also "must"; however, this usage is almost always literary (see Fritz Leiber quotation above). The past sense is usually conveyed by (had to). It is possible to use (be bound to) for the past also. For this reason, (have to) and (be bound to) are also used as alternatives to (must) in the present and future. * The principal verb, if easily supplied, may be omitted. In modern usage this is mainly literary (see Housman and Tolkien quotations above). * (term) is unusual in its negation. (term) still expresses a definite certainty or requirement, with the predicate negated. (term), on the other hand, is negated in the usual manner. Compare: :: You must not' read that book. (''It '''is''' necessary that you '''not read that book. ) :: You need not' read that book. (''It '''is not necessary that you read that book. ) * The second person singular no longer adds "-est" (as it did in Old English).See also
*Synonyms
* imperativeAntonyms
* no-noEtymology 2
(etyl) must, most, from (etyl) mustumNoun
(en noun)- No fermenting must fills the deep vats.
External links
* (wikipedia "must")Etymology 3
(etyl) .Noun
- It was not, of course, a wild elephant, but a tame one which had gone ‘must’.
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*mash
English
Etymology 1
See meshNoun
(es)Etymology 2
From (etyl) mash, . See (l).Noun
- (Beaumont and Fletcher)
Derived terms
* mash tun * mash vatVerb
(es)- to mash on a bicycle pedal
- He took the kettle off the fire and mashed the tea.
Derived terms
* mashing * mashed potato, mashed potatoes * bangers and mash * mashupEtymology 3
EitherMash 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
