different between mess vs bunch

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?s/
• Rhymes: -?s

Etymology 1

Perhaps a corruption of Middle English mesh (“mash”), compare muss, or derived from Etymology 2 "mixed foods, as for animals".

Noun

mess (countable and uncountable, plural messes)

2. A disagreeable mixture or confusion of things; hence, a situation resulting from blundering or from misunderstanding.

   Synonyms: disorder; see also Thesaurus:disorder

3. (colloquial) A large quantity or number.

4. (euphemistic) Excrement.

5. (figuratively) A person in a state of (especially emotional) turmoil or disarray; an emotional wreck.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:mess.

Translations

Verb

mess (third-person singular simple present messes, present participle messing, simple past and past participle messed)

1. (transitive, often used with "up") To make untidy or dirty.
   1. To make soiled by defecating.
2. (transitive, often used with "up") To throw into disorder or to ruin.
   • 1905', Arthur Colton, The Belted Seas

     It wasn't right either to be messing another man's sleep.

3. (intransitive) To interfere.

4. (used with "with") To screw around with, to bother, to be annoying to.

Translations

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Middle English mes, partly from Old English m?se, m?ose (“table”); and partly from Old French mes, Late Latin missum, from mitt? (“to put, place (e.g. on the table)”). See mission, and compare Mass (“religious service”).

Noun

mess (plural messes)

1. (obsolete) Mass; a church service.
3. (archaic) A quantity of food set on a table at one time; provision of food for a person or party for one meal; also, the food given to an animal at one time.
   • c. 1555, Hugh Latimer, letter to one in prison for the profession of the Gospel

     1. a mess of pottage
4. (collective) A number of persons who eat together, and for whom food is prepared in common, especially military personnel who eat at the same table.
5. A building or room in which mess is eaten.
6. A set of four (from the old practice of dividing companies into sets of four at dinner).
7. (US) The milk given by a cow at one milking.
8. (collective) A group of iguanas.

   Synonym: slaughter

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading

• Mess (military) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Verb

mess (third-person singular simple present messes, present participle messing, simple past and past participle messed)

1. (intransitive) To take meals with a mess.
2. (intransitive) To belong to a mess.
3. (intransitive) To eat (with others).
   • 1836, George Simpson & al., HBC Standing Rules and Regulations, §18:

     Resolved 18. That no Guide or Interpreter whether at the Factory Depot or Inland be permitted to mess with Commissioned Gentlemen or Clerks in charge of Posts; but while at the Depot they will be allowed per Week 4 days ordinary rations...

4. (transitive) To supply with a mess.

Further reading

• Mess (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

• mess in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• MSEs, MSes, Mses, Mses., SEMs, SMEs

Hungarian

Alternative forms

• messél, metssz, metsszél

Etymology

metsz +? -j (personal suffix)

Pronunciation

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

Verb

mess

1. second-person singular subjunctive present indefinite of metsz

Maltese

Etymology

From Arabic ?????? (massa).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?s/

Verb

mess (imperfect jmiss, past participle mimsus)

1. to touch
2. (figuratively) to touch, to affect

Conjugation

Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish mes. Cognate with Irish meas (“fruit, mast”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /me?s/

Noun

mess m (genitive singular mess, plural messyn)

1. (botany) fruit

Derived terms

• messghart

Mutation

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

mess

1. imperative of messe

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• mes

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *messus, from Proto-Indo-European *med-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [m?es]

Noun

mess m (genitive messa, nominative plural mesai)

1. verbal noun of midithir
2. judgment
   • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 55^d11

Declension

Mutation

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “1 mes(s)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Swedish

Etymology

Clipping of sms.

Noun

mess n

1. (colloquial) text message

   Synonym: sms

Declension

Derived terms

• messa

References

• mess in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• mess in Svensk ordbok (SO)

Vilamovian

Noun

mess n

1. brass

Related terms

• messera

English

Etymology

From Middle English bunche, bonche (“hump, swelling”), of uncertain origin.

Perhaps a variant of *bunge (compare dialectal bung (“heap, grape bunch”)), from Proto-Germanic *bunk?, *bunkô, *bung? (“heap, crowd”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?en??-, *b?éng??us (“thick, dense, fat”). Cognates include Saterland Frisian Bunke (“bone”), West Frisian bonke (“bone, lump, bump”), Dutch bonk (“lump, bone”), Low German Bunk (“bone”), German Bunge (“tuber”), Danish bunke (“heap, pile”), Faroese bunki (“heap, pile”); Hittite [Term?] (/panku/, “total, entire”), Tocharian B pkante (“volume, fatness”), Lithuanian búož? (“knob”), Ancient Greek ????? (pakhús, “thick”), Sanskrit ??? (bahú, “thick; much”)).

Alternatively, perhaps from a variant or diminutive of bump (compare hump/hunch, lump/lunch, etc.); or from dialectal Old French bonge (“bundle”) (compare French bongeau, bonjeau, bonjot), from West Flemish bondje, diminutive of West Flemish bond (“bundle”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?nt?/
• Rhymes: -?nt?

Noun

bunch (plural bunches)

1. A group of similar things, either growing together, or in a cluster or clump, usually fastened together.
2. (cycling) The peloton; the main group of riders formed during a race.
3. An informal body of friends.

   • “I don't mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera, the gorged dowagers, […], the jewelled animals whose moral code is the code of the barnyard—!"

4. (US, informal) A considerable amount.

5. (informal) An unmentioned amount; a number.

6. (forestry) A group of logs tied together for skidding.
7. (geology, mining) An unusual concentration of ore in a lode or a small, discontinuous occurrence or patch of ore in the wallrock.
   • 1874, David Page, Economic Geology: Or, Geology in Its Relations to the Arts and Manufactures

     The ore may be disseminated throughout the matrix in minute particles, as gold in quartz; in parallel threads, strings, and plates, as with copper; in irregular pockets or bunches

8. (textiles) The reserve yarn on the filling bobbin to allow continuous weaving between the time of indication from the midget feeler until a new bobbin is put in the shuttle.
9. An unfinished cigar, before the wrapper leaf is added.

10. A protuberance; a hunch; a knob or lump; a hump.

Synonyms

• (group of similar things): cluster, group
• (informal body of friends): pack, group, gang, circle
• (unusual concentration of ore): ore pocket, pocket, pocket of ore, kidney, nest, nest of ore, ore bunch, bunch of ore

Derived terms

• buncha (bunch of)

Translations

Verb

bunch (third-person singular simple present bunches, present participle bunching, simple past and past participle bunched)

1. (transitive) To gather into a bunch.
2. (transitive) To gather fabric into folds.
3. (intransitive) To form a bunch.
4. (intransitive) To be gathered together in folds
5. (intransitive) To protrude or swell
   • 1728, John Woodward, An Attempt towards a Natural History of the Fossils of England

     Bunching out into a large round knob at one end.

Synonyms

• (form a bunch): cluster, group

Derived terms

• bunch up

Translations