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mesh
[ mesh ]
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.
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 net
the mesh of the secret police
- the engagement of teeth on interacting gearwheels
the 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
- introften foll bywith to coordinate (with)
to mesh with a policy
- to work or cause to work in harmony
Derived Forms
- ˈmeshy, adjective
Other Words From
- inter·mesh verb (used without object)
- mis·mesh verb
- un·mesh verb (used with object)
Word History and Origins
Origin of mesh1
Word History and Origins
Origin of mesh1
Example Sentences
A major surgery requiring plastic mesh sewn into her belly saved her life.
Tomlinson tackles all of these, and more, and tries to make them all mesh in his tale.
But unfortunately, along that way, we had some mesh tank tops and we had some baggy denim Sean John jumpsuits— JACOB: Sean John!
Lewis waves at Tony Orion, a nominee up for Best Bear/Cub whose biceps have stretched his black mesh jersey to a shine.
The defendants watched from within a steel-mesh cage in what often seemed a grim scene from Kafka or the theater of the absurd.
The lady was a very dressy person and she laid her silver-mesh purse on the counter between herself and Jess.
Then net with the smallest mesh the two lightest shades, one row of each, and two rows of the other three shades.
Then graduate the shades back again to white, narrowing the first row of white with the larger mesh.
Net five rows, then take a mesh a very little larger, and widen by netting two stitches in every stitch.
But if so—what an amazing and incredible thing was the mesh of slander and falsehood in which he had been entangled!
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