mesh

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/ mɛʃ /

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noun

any knit, woven, or knotted fabric of open texture.

an interwoven or intertwined structure; network.

any arrangement of interlocking metal links or wires with evenly spaced, uniform small openings between, as used in jewelry or sieves.

one of the open spaces between the cords or ropes of a net.

meshes,

the threads that bind such spaces.
the means of catching or holding fast: to be caught in the meshes of the law.

Machinery. the engagement of gear teeth.

Electricity. a set of branches that forms a closed path in a network so that removal of a branch results in an open path.

Metallurgy. a designation of a given fineness of powder used in powder metallurgy in terms of the number of the finest screen through which almost all the particles will pass: This powder is 200 mesh.

verb (used with object)

to catch or entangle in or as if in a net; enmesh.

to form with meshes, as a net.

Machinery. to engage, as gear teeth.

to cause to match, coordinate, or interlock: They tried to mesh their vacation plans.

verb (used without object)

to become enmeshed.

Machinery. to become or be engaged, as the teeth of one gear with those of another.

to match, coordinate, or interlock: The two versions of the story don't mesh.

OTHER WORDS FOR mesh

2 web, netting, grill, screen, grid.

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Origin of mesh

1375–1425; late Middle English mesch, apparently continuing Old English masc, max; akin to Old High German māsca,Middle Dutch maesche

OTHER WORDS FROM mesh

in·ter·mesh, verb (used without object)mis·mesh, verbun·mesh, verb (used with object)

Words nearby mesh

mesencephalon, mesenchyme, mesenteritis, mesenteron, mesentery, mesh, Meshach, Mesha Stele, mesh connection, Meshed, mesh knot

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How to use mesh in a sentence

Pour your dirty water through a mesh strainer and into another bucket before dumping it.
The Absolute Beginner's Guide to Camp Cooking|AC Shilton|September 5, 2020|Outside Online
Ly likes to let her dishes drain in a mesh laundry bag hung from a tree branch.
The Absolute Beginner's Guide to Camp Cooking|AC Shilton|September 5, 2020|Outside Online
The first step of photosynthesis happens in a light-harvesting complex, a mesh of proteins in which pigments are embedded, forming an antenna.
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They placed a porous mesh made of platinum between two ion-exchange wafers to create a wafer that pushes ions through membranes using an electric field.
Artificial Kidneys Are a Step Closer With This New Tech|Vanessa Bates Ramirez|June 3, 2020|Singularity Hub

They cut across the leg of the stocking, creating a tube of stretchy nylon mesh.
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A major surgery requiring plastic mesh sewn into her belly saved her life.
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Tomlinson tackles all of these, and more, and tries to make them all mesh in his tale.
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But unfortunately, along that way, we had some mesh tank tops and we had some baggy denim Sean John jumpsuits— JACOB: Sean John!
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Lewis waves at Tony Orion, a nominee up for Best Bear/Cub whose biceps have stretched his black mesh jersey to a shine.
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The defendants watched from within a steel-mesh cage in what often seemed a grim scene from Kafka or the theater of the absurd.
Al Jazeera Journalists Are On Trial in Egypt for Doing Their Jobs|Jesse Rosenfeld|March 24, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The lady was a very dressy person and she laid her silver-mesh purse on the counter between herself and Jess.
The Girls of Central High on the Stage|Gertrude W. Morrison
Then net with the smallest mesh the two lightest shades, one row of each, and two rows of the other three shades.
The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness|Florence Hartley
Then graduate the shades back again to white, narrowing the first row of white with the larger mesh.
The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness|Florence Hartley
Net five rows, then take a mesh a very little larger, and widen by netting two stitches in every stitch.
The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness|Florence Hartley
But if so—what an amazing and incredible thing was the mesh of slander and falsehood in which he had been entangled!
Love's Pilgrimage|Upton Sinclair

British Dictionary definitions for mesh

mesh

/ (mɛʃ) /

noun

a network; net

an open space between the strands of a network

(often plural) the strands surrounding these spaces

anything that ensnares, or holds like a netthe mesh of the secret police

the engagement of teeth on interacting gearwheelsthe gears are in mesh

a measure of spacing of the strands of a mesh or grid, expressed as the distance between strands for coarse meshes or a number of strands per unit length for fine meshes

verb

to entangle or become entangled

(of gear teeth) to engage or cause to engage

(intr often foll by with) to coordinate (with)to mesh with a policy

to work or cause to work in harmony

Derived forms of mesh

meshy, adjective

Word Origin for mesh

C16: probably from Dutch maesche; related to Old English masc, Old High German masca

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