Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In geology, the granulation of a rock in dynamic metamorphism.
- noun A beating or pounding into a mass; a crushing.
- noun In brewing, the process of infusing the crushed malt in warm water, to extract the saccharine matter from it and convert the starch into dextrine and sugar.
- noun The quantity of malt and warm water so mixed.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Present participle of
mash . - noun The action of
soaking malted barley etc., in order to convertstarch intosugars as part of thebrewing process. - noun Preparing tea (in a teapot)
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Examples
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Friday, January 23, 2009, by Andy J. Wang The building formerly known as Giftcenter and Jewelrymart (what's with the word mashing?) - and now known creatively as
Curbed SF 2009
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The environments themselves are also surprisingly detailed at times, though you’ll be spending most of your time too involved in mashing the buttons to really notice.
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It seems that the idea of mashing together an entire meal in one bowl has some cache to it.
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It seems that the idea of mashing together an entire meal in one bowl has some cache to it.
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For instance, he says, a person with fixed ideas about what a VCR is and what a PC is is much less likely to come up with the idea of mashing the two concepts together to invent TiVo.
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Mashing In the stage known as mashing, the coarsely ground malt is soaked in water at between 130 and 160°F/54–70°C for a couple of hours.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
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Mashing In the stage known as mashing, the coarsely ground malt is soaked in water at between 130 and 160°F/54–70°C for a couple of hours.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
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The cheapest and easiest wrought wood is generally most used for making mashing tubs, or hogsheads, and very often for dispatch or from necessity, any wood that is most convenient is taken, as pine or chesnut; indeed I have seen poplar tubs in use for mashing, which is very wrong, as a distiller by not having his hogsheads of good wood, may lose perhaps the price of two sets of hogsheads in one season.
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Forget about button mashing, that is clearly old school (although by no means outdated) with the success of the Nintendo Wii and promise of the Kinect system from Microsoft being examples of how the gaming scene is changing.
Coolest Gadgets 2010
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There's also something serendipitous about the idea of mashing these groups together.
soul sides O.W. 2009
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