mash
part of speech
verb (mash, mashes, mashed, mashing); noun (mash, uncountable; a mash)
meaning for a pupil
1) To mash food is to crush it into a soft mass. tree →
2) Mash is mashed potatoes. tree →
3) Mash is a soft mixture of grain and water fed to animals or used in making drinks. tree →
4) A mash-up is a mix of two songs, videos or ideas. tree →
sense in the lessons
In cooking, you mash potatoes, bananas or avocado with a fork or masher. In Britain "sausage and mash" is a common meal. Phrases: "mashed potatoes", "potato masher", "mash up".
examples
- Mash the bananas with a fork. tree →
- We had sausage and mash for tea. tree →
- I like my potatoes mashed with butter. tree →
- Grandad feeds the hens a warm mash. tree →
- Mash the avocado to make guacamole. tree →
- The baby food is mashed so it is easy to swallow. tree →
- Their song is a mash-up of two old hits. tree →
note
Verb is regular: mashed, mashing; he mashes. "Mash" as food is uncountable: "some mash". Do not confuse with "mesh" (a net).
In the corpora
- Paper is soaked and mashed into new paper, and plastic bottles can be spun into threads for fleece jackets.
- And the sons of Aram: Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Mash.
Trees and pragmatics
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