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mash

noun · verb

Simple meaning

Mixture of ground animal feeds.

Pronunciation

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IPA pronunciation (US)

ˈmæʃ

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Word Review

Definition

Everyday modern meanings first, grouped by part of speech.

noun

  1. A mixture of meal or bran and water fed to animals.

  2. Mixture of ground animal feeds

  3. brewing

    A mixture of mashed malt grains and hot water; used in brewing

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. A type of dedicated field hospital unit designed to be quickly set up as close to a combat zone as possible to facilitate the immediate treatment of wounded personnel.

verb

  1. transitive

    To convert into a mash; to reduce to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure

  2. transitive

    In brewing, to convert (for example malt, or malt and meal) into the mash which makes wort, by mixing it with hot water.

  3. To flirt, to make eyes, to make romantic advances.

  4. (transitive, UK, chiefly Northern England, Lancashire, Yorkshire) To prepare a cup of tea in a teapot; to brew (tea).

Word at a Glance

Difficulty
C1 · Advanced
Frequency
Uncommon
Typical Use
Neutral / general English

Word Aura™

How this word commonly comes across.

Aura for this meaning

This meaning: A mixture of meal or bran and water fed to animals.

Used this way, mash is a reasonably familiar word that usually carries little praise or criticism of its own. It usually sounds natural in a wide range of settings.

Emotional tone
Neutral
Formality
Neutral
Intensity
Not strongly marked
How common
Moderately common
Connotation
Matter-of-fact
Usage feel
Neutral and straightforward

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Common Patterns and Combinations

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Mixture / ground

monster mashbran mashwet mashcorn mash

Other combinations

sour mashmash tundry mashlaying mash

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Word Family

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Compound terms

Established multiword terms.

  • mashed potatonounCompound term

    Potato that has been peeled and boiled and then mashed.

  • mash beannounCompound term

    Seed of the mung bean plant.

  • sour mashnounCompound term

    A mash with optimum acidity for yeast fermentation.

  • sour mash whiskeynounCompound term

    Any whiskey distilled from sour mash.

  • decoction mashingnounCompound term

    A process in which part of the mash is removed and boiled and then returned.

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