different between gush vs sequence

English

Etymology

From Middle English guschen, gusshen, gosshien, perhaps from Middle Dutch guysen (“to flow out with a gurgling sound, gush”) or Old Norse gusa (“to gush”), ultimately imitative.

Compare Old Norse geysa (“to gush”), German gießen (“to pour”), Old English ??otan ("to pour"; > English yote). Related to gust.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /????/
• Rhymes: -??

Noun

gush (plural gushes)

1. A sudden rapid outflow.
   • 1990, Stephen King, The Moving Finger

     There was a cartoon woman in an apron on the front. She stood with one hand on her hip while she used the other hand to pour a gush of drain-cleaner into something that was either an industrial sink or Orson Welles's bidet.

Translations

Verb

gush (third-person singular simple present gushes, present participle gushing, simple past and past participle gushed)

1. (intransitive, also figuratively) To flow forth suddenly, in great volume.
2. (transitive, also figuratively) To send (something) flowing forth suddenly in great volume.
   • 1993, Brian Lumley, Blood Brothers, Macmillan (?ISBN), page 119:

     The other was no longer capable of controlling his anger; his parasite creature amplified his passion by ten; his jaws cracked open and his great mouth gushed blood from torn gums as teeth grew out of them like bone sickles.

   • 2001, Larry L. Miller, Tennessee Place-names, Indiana University Press (?ISBN), page 196:

     A beautiful spring gushed water from the ground in this mountainous sector of Polk County, inspiring the name of the place.

3. (intransitive, especially of a woman) To ejaculate during orgasm.
   • 2008, Anya Bast, The Chosen Sin, Penguin (?ISBN), page 154:

     Her orgasm exploded over her, making her writhe and cry out his name. She gushed over his hand, her cunt gripping and releasing his invading fingers.

   • 2009, Emma Holly, Kissing Midnight, Penguin (?ISBN):

     Somehow, this made his ejaculations all the more exciting, sending hot tingles streaking through her as he gushed.

   • 2014, Stewart N. Johnson, Parthian Stranger 2 Conspiracy, Trafford Publishing (?ISBN):

     […] she pulled off an amazing orgasm, one after another, she gushed with force, […]

   • 2017, Cara McKinnon, Memories of Magic, Stars and Stone Books (?ISBN):

     Odd. She'd never managed to do that to herself before—to climax so hard she gushed. Sometimes her sex partners didn't satisfy her as well as she could on her own, but her most intense orgasms had always been with others.

4. (intransitive, transitive, figuratively) To make an excessive display of enthusiasm, praise, or sentiment.
   • 1911, Thompson Buchanan, Making People Happy, page 14:

     Miss Johnson gushed approval with her usual air of coquettish superiority.

   • 2010, Pat Williams, Jim Denney, How to Be Like Walt: Capturing the Disney Magic Every Day of Your Life, Simon and Schuster (?ISBN):

     Randy Thornton, a producer with Walt Disney Records, put it this way: “Walt was not a man who gushed praise. His biggest words of approval were, 'That'll work.'

   • 2017, Judson G. Everitt, Lesson Plans: The Institutional Demands of Becoming a Teacher, Rutgers University Press (?ISBN):

     Nellie routinely gushed praise to students for good performance whereas Frank was much more sparing in praising students.

Translations

References

• Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.

Anagrams

• Shug, hugs, shug

Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *gunša, close to Lithuanian gùžas (“knag”), Old Norse kjuka (“ankle”) and Old Church Slavonic gust? (gust?, “thick, dense”).

Noun

gush f (definite singular gusha)

1. neck, Adam's apple

Related terms

• gungë
• kungull

English

Etymology

From Middle English sequence, borrowed from French sequence (“a sequence of cards, answering verses”), from Late Latin sequentia (“a following”), from Latin sequens (“following”), from sequi (“to follow”); see sequent.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?si?kw?ns/

Noun

sequence (countable and uncountable, plural sequences)

1. A set of things next to each other in a set order; a series
2. (uncountable) The state of being sequent or following; order of succession.

   Complete the listed tasks in sequence.

3. A series of musical phrases where a theme or melody is repeated, with some change each time, such as in pitch or length (example: opening of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony).
4. A musical composition used in some Catholic Masses between the readings. The most famous sequence is the Dies Irae (Day of Wrath) formerly used in funeral services.
5. (mathematics) An ordered list of objects, typically indexed with natural numbers.
6. (now rare) A subsequent event; a consequence or result.
   • 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska 2005, pp. 12-13:

     he found no words to convey the impressions he had received; then he gave way to the anger always the sequence of the antagonism of opinion between them.

7. A series of shots that depict a single action or style in a film, television show etc.
8. (card games) A meld consisting of three or more cards of successive ranks in the same suit, such as the four, five and six of hearts.

Usage notes

• (mathematics): Beginning students often confuse sequence with series.

Synonyms

• (a set of things next to each other in a set order): See Thesaurus:sequence

Hypernyms

• (mathematics): function

Hyponyms

• presequence
• (computing): escape sequence

Meronyms

• (mathematics): term

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Verb

sequence (third-person singular simple present sequences, present participle sequencing, simple past and past participle sequenced)

1. (transitive) to arrange in an order
2. (transitive, biochemistry) to determine the order of things, especially of amino acids in a protein, or of bases in a nucleic acid
3. (transitive) to produce (music) with a sequencer

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References

Further reading

• sequence in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• sequence in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.