Mess
[mes] or [mɛs]
Definition
(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.
Edited by Greg--From WordNet
Definition
(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.
Checker: McDonald
Synonyms and Synonymous
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.
Edited by Leopold
Definition
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.
Checked by Elton
Examples
- I try to make the mess like the old days. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- The only potatoes we sold were to our own mess. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Colonel Crawley found dining at mess and with his brother-officers very pleasant. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Jo and the other lower animals get on in the unintelligible mess as they can. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Mr. Harthouse, I am in a horrible mess. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- As soon as we had left the mess-room, I told Worcester that he really must be at parade by eight o'clock to-morrow. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- You seem to have got through your own money pretty quickly, and to have made a mess where you are; the sooner you go somewhere else the better. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I feel all tangled and messed up, and I CAN'T get straight anyhow. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- I get in my own messes. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- She asked her daughter to see and satisfy herself that there was no poison prepared in the little daily messes that were concocted for Georgy. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Don't try too many messes, Jo, for you can't make anything but gingerbread and molasses candy fit to eat. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Germans like messes. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
Typed by Arthur