Mesh
[meʃ] or [mɛʃ]
Definition
(noun.) the act of interlocking or meshing; 'an interlocking of arms by the police held the crowd in check'.
(noun.) the number of openings per linear inch of a screen; measures size of particles; 'a 100 mesh screen'; '100 mesh powdered cellulose'.
(verb.) work together in harmony.
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Definition
(n.) The opening or space inclosed by the threads of a net between knot and knot, or the threads inclosing such a space; network; a net.
(n.) The engagement of the teeth of wheels, or of a wheel and rack.
(v. t.) To catch in a mesh.
(v. i.) To engage with each other, as the teeth of wheels.
Typed by Clyde
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Interstice (of a net).
Typist: Wesley
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Intricacy, entanglement, involution, snare
ANT:Extrication, escape, deliverance
Edited by Andrea
Definition
n. the opening between the threads of a net: the threads and knots which bound the opening: network.—v.t. to catch in a net: to engage or interlock as gear-teeth.—v.i. to become engaged thus.—n. Mesh′-work a network web.—adj. Mesh′y formed like network.
Edited by Bridget
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of being entangled in the meshes of a net, or other like constructions, denotes that enemies will oppress you in time of seeming prosperity. To a young woman, this dream foretells that her environments will bring her into evil and consequent abandonment. If she succeeds in disengaging herself from the meshes, she will narrowly escape slander.
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Examples
- The residue on a 200-mesh screen is useless. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- This is ground and that part of this finely ground clinker that will pass a 200-mesh screen is cement; the residue is still clinker. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Her profile did not stir, but he saw a tear overflow on her lashes and hang in a mesh of her veil. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- Now the open mesh cane fabric, having diagonal strands, and other varieties, are made rapidly by machinery. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- During the year 1895 the first loom for weaving an open mesh cane fabric having diagonal strands was invented. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- A dark conspiracy was on foot in the midst of us; and our beloved and innocent friend had been entangled in its meshes. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Cautiously he intruded his hand between the meshes of the lattice until his whole arm was within the cabin. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- She had just been for a row on the river, and the sun that netted the little waves with gold seemed to have caught her in its meshes. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- No end of possibilities have slipped through the large meshes of his net. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- But that my girl should be entangled in the same meshes which held me was more than I could suffer. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- You've been lying out on the meshes, and they're dreadful aguish. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Each disc of wire composing it contains 676 superficial square inches, and the net has 10 meshes to the inch. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- The two sisters worked on in silence, Ursula having always that strange brightness of an essential flame that is caught, meshed, contravened. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
Editor: Tod