Mess

[mes] or [mɛs]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) a (large) military dining room where service personnel eat or relax.

(noun.) a meal eaten in a mess hall by service personnel.

(noun.) soft semiliquid food; 'a mess of porridge'.

(noun.) a state of confusion and disorderliness; 'the house was a mess'; 'she smoothed the mussiness of the bed'.

(verb.) make a mess of or create disorder in; 'He messed up his room'.

(verb.) eat in a mess hall.

格雷格整理--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(n.) Mass; church service.

(n.) A quantity of food set on a table at one time; provision of food for a person or party for one meal; as, a mess of pottage; also, the food given to a beast at one time.

(n.) A number of persons who eat together, and for whom food is prepared in common; especially, persons in the military or naval service who eat at the same table; as, the wardroom mess.

(n.) A set of four; -- from the old practice of dividing companies into sets of four at dinner.

(n.) The milk given by a cow at one milking.

(n.) A disagreeable mixture or confusion of things; hence, a situation resulting from blundering or from misunderstanding; as, he made a mess of it.

(v. i.) To take meals with a mess; to belong to a mess; to eat (with others); as, I mess with the wardroom officers.

(v. t.) To supply with a mess.

錄入:麦克唐纳

同義詞及近義詞：

n. [1]. Dish.[2]. Set (who eat together), company.[3]. Medley, mixture, miscellany, farrago, hotch-potch, hodge-podge, jumble, salmagundi, mish-mash, olio, OLLA PODRIDA, confused mass, MÉLANGE.

v. n. Eat in company, take meals at the same table.

手打:利奥波德

解釋/意思:

n. a dish or quantity of food served up at one time: a number of persons who take their meals together at the same table esp. in the army and navy: the take of fish at one time.—v.t. to supply with a mess.—v.i. to eat of a mess: to eat at a common table.

n. a mixture disagreeable to the sight or taste: a medley: disorder: confusion.—v.t. to make a mess of: to muddle.—adj. Mess′y confused untidy.

n.=mass.—Mess John a domestic chaplain.

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