mash vs separation

mash

verb
  • To press. 

  • To press (a button) rapidly and repeatedly. 

  • To press down hard (on). 

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

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

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

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

noun
  • A gun. 

  • Mashed potatoes. 

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

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

separation

noun
  • Departure from active duty, while not necessarily leaving the service entirely. 

  • An agreement legalizing such an arrangement. 

  • An object that separates two spaces. 

  • The act of disuniting two or more things, or the condition of being separated. 

  • The act or condition of two or more people being separated from one another. 

  • The place at which a division occurs. 

  • An interval, gap or space that separates things or people. 

  • The act or condition of a married couple living in separate homes while remaining legally married. 

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