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mess
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)
- A disagreeable mixture or confusion of things; hence, a situation resulting from blundering or from misunderstanding.
- Synonyms: disorder; see also Thesaurus:disorder
- (colloquial) A large quantity or number.
- (euphemistic) Excrement.
- (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)
- (transitive, often used with "up") To make untidy or dirty.
- To make soiled by defecating.
- (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.
- 1905', Arthur Colton, The Belted Seas
- (intransitive) To interfere.
- (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)
- (obsolete) Mass; a church service.
- (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
- a mess of pottage
- c. 1555, Hugh Latimer, letter to one in prison for the profession of the Gospel
- (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.
- A building or room in which mess is eaten.
- A set of four (from the old practice of dividing companies into sets of four at dinner).
- (US) The milk given by a cow at one milking.
- (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)
- (intransitive) To take meals with a mess.
- (intransitive) To belong to a mess.
- (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...
- 1836, George Simpson & al., HBC Standing Rules and Regulations, §18:
- (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
- 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)
- to touch
- (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)
- (botany) fruit
Derived terms
- messghart
Mutation
Norwegian Bokmål
Verb
mess
- 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)
- verbal noun of midithir
- 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. 55d11
- 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. 55d11
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
- (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
- brass
Related terms
- messera
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row
English
Etymology 1
From Middle English rewe, rowe, rawe, from Old English r?w, r?w, probably from Proto-Germanic *raiw?, *raigw?, *raih- (“row, streak, line”), from Proto-Indo-European *reyk- (“to carve, scratch, etch”). Cognate with dialectal Norwegian rå (“boundary line”), Middle Dutch r?e, Dutch rij (“row, line”), Old High German r?ga (“line”), rihan (“to string”), Middle High German rige (“line, row, ditch”), r?he (“row, line, corridor”), German Reihe (“row”), Middle Low German r?ge, r?ge, Old Norse rega (“string”), Middle Dutch r?ghe, Dutch rijg, rijge, German Riege (“sports team”).
Alternative forms
- rew (dialectal)
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: r?, IPA(key): /????/
- (US) enPR: r?, IPA(key): /??o?/
- Homophones: rho, roe
- Rhymes: -??
Noun
row (plural rows)
- A line of objects, often regularly spaced, such as seats in a theatre, vegetable plants in a garden etc.
- A horizontal line of entries in a table, etc., going from left to right, as opposed to a column going from top to bottom.
- Antonym: column
Synonyms
- (line of objects): line, sequence, series, succession, tier (of seats)
- (in a table): line
Derived terms
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English rowen (“to row”), from Old English r?wan (“to row”), from Proto-Germanic *r?an? (“to row”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?reh?- (“to row”). Compare West Frisian roeie, Dutch roeien, Danish ro. More at rudder.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: r?, IPA(key): /???/
- (US) enPR: r?, IPA(key): /?o?/
- Homophones: rho, roe
- Rhymes: -??
Verb
row (third-person singular simple present rows, present participle rowing, simple past and past participle rowed)
- (transitive or intransitive, nautical) To propel (a boat or other craft) over water using oars.
- Synonym: paddle
- (transitive) To transport in a boat propelled with oars.
- (intransitive) To be moved by oars.
- The boat rows easily.
Derived terms
- get in the boat and row
- rowboat (see also rowing boat)
Translations
Noun
row (plural rows)
- An act or instance of rowing.
- (weightlifting) An exercise performed with a pulling motion of the arms towards the back.
Translations
Etymology 3
Unclear; some suggest it is a back-formation from rouse, verb.
Pronunciation
- enPR: rou, IPA(key): /?a?/
- Rhymes: -a?
Noun
row (plural rows)
- A noisy argument.
- Synonyms: argument, disturbance, fight, fracas, quarrel, shouting match, slanging match
- A continual loud noise.
- Synonyms: din, racket
Translations
Verb
row (third-person singular simple present rows, present participle rowing, simple past and past participle rowed)
- (intransitive) to argue noisily
- Synonyms: argue, fight
Translations
Anagrams
- Wor., wor
Lower Sorbian
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *rov?. Cognate with Upper Sorbian row, Polish rów (“ditch”), Czech rov, Russian ??? (rov, “ditch”), Old Church Slavonic ???? (rov?, “ditch”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /r?w/, [row]
Noun
row m (diminutive rowk)
- grave
Declension
Further reading
- row in Ernst Muka/Mucke (St. Petersburg and Prague 1911–28): S?ownik dolnoserbskeje r?cy a jeje nar?cow / Wörterbuch der nieder-wendischen Sprache und ihrer Dialekte. Reprinted 2008, Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag
- row in Manfred Starosta (1999): Dolnoserbsko-nimski s?ownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch. Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag.
Manx
Etymology
From an old perfective particle ro- + va.
Verb
row
- was, were (dependent form)
Usage notes
Part of the substantive verb bee. This is the dependent form of the past tense va used after negative and interrogative particles:
- Cha row aggle erbee er.
- He was not in the least afraid.
- Dooyrt eh dy row eh mac y ree.
- He claimed that he was the son of the king.
- Cha row aggle erbee er.
Old English
Alternative forms
- r?
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *r?u, from Proto-Germanic *r?w?. Cognate with Old Norse ró (“rest”) and German Ruhe (“quietness, rest, repose”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ro?w/
Noun
r?w f
- quiet, rest, calm
Declension
Descendants
- Middle English: ro, rou, rowe, roo
- English: roo
- Scots: ro, ruve
References
- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) , “r?w”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Scots
Noun
row (plural rows)
- roll
Derived terms
- row-cloth: a folding cloak of warm cloth
Upper Sorbian
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *rov?.
Noun
row m
- grave
Vilamovian
Pronunciation
Noun
r?w f (plural rowa)
- rook (bird)
- raven
Yola
Noun
row
- Alternative form of reoue
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