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Session vs Sesh - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between session and sesh

is that session is a period devoted to a particular activity while sesh is a period of time spent engaged in some group activity.

session

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A period devoted to a particular activity.
    • a training session
    "Are we having a recording session'''?" / "Yes. We've even got some '''session musicians to provide some brass."
  • *
  • A meeting of a council, court, or legislative body to conduct its business.
    • This court is now in session .
  • (computing) The sequence of interactions between client and server, or between user and system; the period during which a user is logged in or connected.
    • Logging out or shutting down the computer will end your session .
  • (cricket) Any of the three scheduled two hour playing sessions, from the start of play to lunch, from lunch to tea and from tea to the close of play.
  • (obsolete) The act of sitting, or the state of being seated.
  • * Hooker
    • So much his ascension into heaven and his session at the right hand of God do import.
  • * Tennyson
    • But Vivien, gathering somewhat of his mood, / Leaped from her session on his lap, and stood.

    Derived terms

    * bull session * session ale, session beer, session bitter * sessionless

    Anagrams

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    sesh

    English

    Noun

    (seshes)
  • (colloquial) A period of time spent engaged in some group activity.
  • (colloquial) An informal social get-together or meeting to perform a group activity.
  • A period of sustained social drinking.
  • A period of sustained cannabis smoking.

    • Quotations

    Meaning 1: :* July 18, 1987 , Financial Times , page 6, :: "'We're not going to win a prize for graphics,' said Syd Silverman in a sesh this week." :* 2005 , Bruce Pegg, Brown Eyed Handsome Man: The Life and Hard Times of Chuck Berry , Routledge, page 51, :: "There's no opportunity either to take rhythm & blues or leave it alone at this sesh at the Apollo." Meaning 2: :* E.g., snowboarding: "Then it was on to the wallride for a sesh where numerous tricks were thrown down." April 11, 2007, Dave Driscoll, Transworld Snowboarding Magazine . : Examples of usage in Usenet groups: :* Playing video games together: "Halo sesh " (2002) :* Surfing: "Went out for a quick sesh today in Huntington. Wore my spring suit." (2003) Meaning 3: :* 1944 , George Netherwood, Desert Squadron , Cairo, R. Schindler, page 119, :: "Empty lager bottles signified that Hans and Fritz also knew the joys of a desert sesh ." :* 1999 , Ian Rankin, Black and Blue , St. Martin's Press, ISBN: 0312966776, page 39, :: "Impulse buys one Saturday afternoon, after a lunchtime sesh in the Ox…"

    References

    * , Second Edition, Addition Series 1993 * The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, Vol. II , 2005, and Dalzell Victor Eds, Published by Taylor & Francis, ISBN: 041525938X, page 1699 * Cassell's Dictionary of Slang , 2006, Jonathon Green, Published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc., ISBN: 0304366366, page 1252 * The Dictionary of Contemporary Slang , Tony Thorne, 1990, Published by Pantheon Books, ISBN 0679737065, page 448.

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