Mash vs. Rash — What's the Difference?

A mixture of malt or other ingredients with water, heated to convert starches into fermentable sugars for use in brewing or distilling.

A rash is a change of the human skin which affects its color, appearance, or texture. A rash may be localized in one part of the body, or affect all the skin.

A mixture of ground grain and nutrients fed to livestock and fowl.

Resulting from or acting with ill-considered haste or boldness.

A soft pulpy mixture or mass.

A visible lesion or group of lesions on the skin, caused by any of numerous factors including infectious agents, drugs, and allergies.

Chiefly British Mashed potatoes.

An outbreak of many instances within a brief period

A crushing or grinding.

Acting too quickly without considering the consequences and risks; not careful; hasty.

(Slang) An infatuation or act of flirtation.

Of corn or other grains: so dry as to fall out of the ear with handling.

To convert (malt or grain) into mash.

Requiring swift action; pressing; urgent.

To convert into a soft pulpy mass by pounding or crushing

Taking effect quickly and strongly; fast-acting.

Chiefly Southern & South Midland US To apply pressure to; press.

(archaic) rashly

(Slang) To flirt with or make sexual advances to.

An area of inflamed and irritated skin characterized by reddened spots that may be filled with fluid or pus; also, preceded by a descriptive word , an illness characterized by a type of rash.

(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.

(figuratively)

(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.

An irregular distribution or sprinkling of objects resembling a rash (sense 1).

(mostly UK) Mashed potatoes.

An outbreak or surge in problems; a spate, string, or trend.

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

(historical) Chiefly preceded by a descriptive word: a fabric with a smooth texture woven from silk, worsted, or a mixture of the two, intended as an inferior substitute for silk.

(obsolete) A mess; trouble.

(obsolete) A soft crackling or rustling sound.

(obsolete) A mesh.

(transitive)

(obsolete) An infatuation, a crush, a fancy.

To forcefully move or push (someone or something) in a certain direction.

(obsolete) A dandy, a masher.

To break (something) forcefully; to smash.

(obsolete) The object of one’s affections regardless of sex.

To emit or issue (something) hastily.

A gun.

(rare) Usually followed by up: to prepare (something) with haste; to cobble together, to improvise.

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

(intransitive)

(transitive) In brewing, to convert (for example malt, or malt and meal) into the mash which makes wort.

To move forcefully, hastily, or suddenly; to dash, to rush.

(ambitransitive) To press down hard (on).

Of rain: to fall heavily.

To press. en

Chiefly followed by against, at, or upon: to collide or hit.

To prepare a cup of tea in a teapot; to brew (tea).

Chiefly followed by away, down, off, out, etc.: to pluck, pull, or rip (something) violently.

To act violently.

To hack, slash, or slice (something).

To press (a button) rapidly and repeatedly.

(rare) Chiefly followed by out: to scrape or scratch (something); to obliterate.

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

To pull off or pluck violently.

An abbreviation for Mobile Army Surgical Hospital, consisting of the equipment and personnel required to perform emergency operations on injured soldiers, located in tents near the front lines of combat; as, he worked in the 25th MASH.

To slash; to hack; to cut; to slice.

A mesh.

To prepare with haste.

A mass of mixed ingredients reduced to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure; a mass of anything in a soft pulpy state. Specifically (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.

A fine eruption or efflorescence on the body, with little or no elevation.

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

An inferior kind of silk, or mixture of silk and worsted.

A mess; trouble.

Sudden in action; quick; hasty.

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.

Requiring sudden action; pressing; urgent.

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

Esp., overhasty in counsel or action; precipitate; resolving or entering on a project or measure without due deliberation and caution; opposed to prudent; said of persons; as, a rash statesman or commander.

Mixture of ground animal feeds

Uttered or undertaken with too much haste or too little reflection; as, rash words; rash measures.

To compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition;

So dry as to fall out of the ear with handling, as corn.

Talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions;

Any red eruption of the skin

Reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading;

A series of unexpected and unpleasant occurrences;

Imprudently incurring risk;

Marked by unthinking boldness; with defiant disregard for danger or consequences;