different between mesh vs mush

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

Probably a variant of mash, or from a dialectal variant of Middle English mos (“mush, pulp, porridge”); compare Middle English appelmos (“applesauce”), from Old English m?s (“food, victuals, porridge, mush”), from Proto-West Germanic *m?s, from Proto-Germanic *m?s? (“porridge, food”), from Proto-Indo-European *meh?d- (“wet, fat, dripping”). Cognate with Scots moosh (“mush”), Dutch moes (“pulp, mush, porridge”), German Mus (“jam, puree, mush”), Swedish mos (“pulp, mash, mush”). See also moose.

Alternative forms

• moosh

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) enPR: m?sh, IPA^(key): /m??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /m??/
• ,
• Rhymes: -??
• Rhymes: -??

Noun

mush (countable and uncountable, plural mushes)

1. A somewhat liquid mess, often of food; a soft or semisolid substance.
2. (radio) A mixture of noise produced by the harmonics of continuous-wave stations.
3. (surfing) The foam of a breaker.
   • 2008, Bucky McMahon, Night Diver (page 80)

     And Rincon was all about surfing. Flash back thirty-odd years, to a skinny kid on a Styrofoam belly-board, pin-wheeling out into the mush of Jacksonville Beach, Florida.

4. (geology) A magmatic body containing a significant proportion of crystals suspended in the liquid phase or melt.

Translations

Verb

mush (third-person singular simple present mushes, present participle mushing, simple past and past participle mushed)

1. To squish so as to break into smaller pieces or to combine with something else.

   He mushed the ingredients together.

Translations

Derived terms

• apple-mush
• mushy

See also

• mash
• moosh

Etymology 2

From Old High German muos and Goidelic mus (“a pap”) or muss (“a porridge”), or any thick preparation of fruit.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) enPR: m?sh, IPA^(key): /m??/
• ,
• Rhymes: -??

Noun

mush (countable and uncountable, plural mushes)

1. A food comprising cracked or rolled grains cooked in water or milk; porridge.
2. (rural US) Cornmeal cooked in water and served as a porridge or as a thick sidedish like grits or mashed potatoes.
   • 2007, Andrew F. Smith, The Oxford Companion to American Food and Drink

     However, they did make and sometimes even bake cornmeal mushes that could be either sweetened or fortified with fat.

Translations

Etymology 3

Believed to be a contraction of mush on, from Michif, in turn a corruption of French marchons! and marche!, the cry of the voyageurs and coureurs de bois to their dogs.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) enPR: m?sh, IPA^(key): /m??/, /m??/
• ,
• Rhymes: -??

Interjection

mush

1. A directive given (usually to dogs or a horse) to start moving, or to move faster.

Translations

Derived terms

• musher

Noun

mush (plural mushes)

1. A walk, especially across the snow with dogs.

Verb

mush (third-person singular simple present mushes, present participle mushing, simple past and past participle mushed)

1. (intransitive) To walk, especially across the snow with dogs.
2. (transitive) To drive dogs, usually pulling a sled, across the snow.
   • 1910, Jack London, Burning Daylight, part 1 chapter 4:

     Together the two men loaded and lashed the sled. They warmed their hands for the last time, pulled on their mittens, and mushed the dogs over the bank and down to the river-trail.

Etymology 4

Simple contraction of mushroom.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) enPR: m?sh, IPA^(key): /m??/
• ,
• Rhymes: -??

Noun

mush (plural mushes)

1. (Quebec, slang) A magic mushroom.

Synonyms

• shroom (slang)

Translations

Etymology 5

From Angloromani mush (“man”), from Romani mursh, from Sanskrit ?????? (manu?ya, “human being, man”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: mo?osh, IPA^(key): /m??/
• Rhymes: -??

Noun

mush (plural mushes)

1. (Britain, slang, chiefly Southern England) A form of address, normally to a man.

   Synonyms: (UK) mate, (especially US) pal

2. (Britain, slang, chiefly Northern England, Australia) The face.

   Synonym: mug

Translations

References

• Take Our Word for It Issue 101, accessed on 2005-05-09

Etymology 6

Compare French moucheter (“to cut with small cuts”).

Verb

mush (third-person singular simple present mushes, present participle mushing, simple past and past participle mushed)

1. (transitive) To notch, cut, or indent (cloth, etc.) with a stamp.

Anagrams

• Hums, Shum, hums

Angloromani

Etymology

From Romani mur?, from Sanskrit ?????? (manu?ya, “human being, man”).

Noun

mush (plural mushes)

1. man

Descendants

• ? English: mush

References

• “mush” in The Manchester Romani Project, Angloromani Dictionary.