different between mesh vs mese

English

Etymology

From Middle English mesche, from Old English masc (“net”) (perhaps influenced in form by related Old English mæscre (“mesh, spot”)) both from Proto-Germanic *maskr?, *maskw?, from Proto-Indo-European *mezg- (“to knit, twist, plait”). Akin to Old High German m?sca (“mesh”), Old Saxon maska (“net”), Old Norse m?skvi, m?skun (“mesh”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m??/
• Rhymes: -??

Noun

mesh (plural meshes)

1. A structure made of connected strands of metal, fiber, or other flexible/ductile material, with evenly spaced openings between them.
2. The opening or space enclosed by the threads of a net between knot and knot, or the threads enclosing such a space.
3. The engagement of the teeth of wheels, or of a wheel and rack.
4. A measure of fineness (particle size) of ground material. A powder that passes through a sieve having 300 openings per linear inch but does not pass 400 openings per linear inch is said to be -300 +400 mesh.
5. (computer graphics) A polygon mesh.

Synonyms

• (space and threads): lattice, network, net

Derived terms

• mesh number
• navmesh
• polymesh
• submesh

Translations

Verb

mesh (third-person singular simple present meshes, present participle meshing, simple past and past participle meshed)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To connect together by interlocking, as gears do.
2. (intransitive, figuratively, by extension) To fit in; to come together harmoniously.

3. (transitive) To catch in a mesh.
   • a. 1547, Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, "Description of the fickle affections, pangs, and slights of love"

     I know how loue doth rage vpon a yelding minde:
     How smal a net may take and meash a hart of gentle kinde

Translations

Anagrams

• Hems, Mehs, Shem, hems, mehs

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English mese, mes, mees (“dinner, dish”), from Old English m?se, m?ose, m?se, m?se (“table; that which is set on a table; dish; food, meal”), probably from Vulgar Latin m?sa, from Latin m?nsa (“table”). Cognate with Scots mes, mese (“a serving of food”), Old High German mias, meas (German Mus, Gemüse), Gothic ???????????? (m?s). Compare Old English m?san (“to eat, dine”), from Proto-Germanic *m?sijan?, from Proto-Germanic *m?s?, an ablaut variant of the root Proto-Germanic mat- (“food”).

Alternative forms

• mease

Noun

mese (plural meses)

1. (obsolete) A dinner; meal.

References

• "mése" in: Bosworth, J., & Toller, T. Northcote. (1898). An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

Etymology 2

From Middle English mesen, of North Germanic origin. More at meek.

Verb

mese (third-person singular simple present meses, present participle mesing, simple past and past participle mesed)

1. To moderate; subdue; abate; mollify.

Anagrams

• Esme, Esmé, emes, seem, seme, semé, smee

Corsican

Noun

mese m (plural mesi)

1. month

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mese/, [?me?s?e?]
• Rhymes: -ese
• Syllabification: me?se

Noun

mese

1. (slang) MSN Messenger

Declension

Anagrams

• Seem

Garo

Etymology

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Noun

mese

1. mouse

Hungarian

Etymology

From Proto-Ugric *ma???, *ma?? (“tale; to tell (tale, story)”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?m???]
• Hyphenation: me?se
• Rhymes: -??

Noun

mese (plural mesék)

1. fairy tale, tale, fable

   Synonyms: tündérmese, népmese, fabula, elbeszélés, történet, sztori

2. (derogatory) fabrication, tall story, lie, yarn

   Synonyms: hazugság, kitaláció, nagyotmondás, koholmány

Declension

Derived terms

References

Further reading

• mese in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Italian

Etymology

From Latin m?nsis, m?nsem (“month”), from Proto-Indo-European *m?h?n?s (“moon, month”). Compare Catalan mes, French mois, Portuguese mês, Romansch mais, Spanish mes.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?me.ze/
• Rhymes: -eze

Noun

mese m (plural mesi)

1. month

Derived terms

• mensile
• mensilmente
• mensilità

See also

• Category:it:Months
• settimana
• anno

Anagrams

• seme

Latin

Noun

mes?

1. ablative singular of mes?s
2. vocative singular of mes?s

References

• mese in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• mese in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

Old French

Noun

mese f (oblique plural meses, nominative singular mese, nominative plural meses)

1. Alternative form of messe

Pohnpeian

Noun

mese

1. face, facade
2. upper part of a yam, taro, pineapple, etc.
3. the edge of a reef

Romanian

Noun

mese f pl

1. plural of mas?

Spanish

Verb

mese

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of mesarse.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of mesarse.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of mesarse.