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Meaning and definition for "mess" word
[noun] a meal eaten by service personnel
[noun] soft semiliquid food; "a mess of porridge"
[noun] (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent; "a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "it must have cost plenty"
[noun] informal terms for a difficult situation; "he got into a terrible fix"; "he made a muddle of his marriage"
[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; in the military
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\Mess\, n. [OE. mes, OF. mets, LL. missum, p. p. of mittere to put, place (e. g., on the table), L. mittere to send. See {Mission}, and cf. {Mass} religious service.] 1. 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. At their savory dinner set Of herbs and other country messes. --Milton. 2. 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. --Shak. 3. A set of four; -- from the old practice of dividing companies into sets of four at dinner. [Obs.] --Latimer. 4. The milk given by a cow at one milking. [U.S.] 5. [Perh. corrupt. fr. OE. mesh for mash: cf. muss.] A disagreeable mixture or confusion of things; hence, a situation resulting from blundering or from misunderstanding; as, he made a mess of it. [Colloq.]
\Mess\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Messed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Messing}.] To take meals with a mess; to belong to a mess; to eat (with others); as, I mess with the wardroom officers. --Marryat.
\Mess\, v. t. To supply with a mess.
\Mess\, v. t. To make a mess of; to disorder or muddle; to muss; to jumble; to disturb. It was n't right either to be messing another man's sleep. --Scribner's Mag.
Synonyms for mess
batch, deal, fix, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, hole, jam, kettle of fish, lot, mass, mess hall, mess up, messiness, mickle, mint, muckle, muddle, muss, mussiness, peck, pickle, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad, whole lot, whole slew
See also: aliment | alimentation | deluge | difficulty | dining room | diningroom | disarray | disorder | disorder | disorderliness | dog's breakfast | dog's dinner | eat | flood | inundation | large indefinite amount | large indefinite quantity | meal | nourishment | nutriment | nutrition | officer's mess | repast | sustenance | torrent | training table | victuals |
Related terms: bitch up, bread, cafeteria, contingent, dandruff, decay, discomfiture, foozle, goof up, hobble, hodgepodge, interest, meed, messroom, mess up, monstrosity, perturbation, piece, pretty pass, quandary, quite a little, shock, sight, smorgasbord, squeeze, stack, straits, tousle, upset, wreck
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Let's analyse "mess" as pure text. This string has Four letters in One syllable and One vowel. 25% of vowels is 13.6% less then average English word. Written in backwards: SSEM. Average typing speed for these characters is 1135 milliseconds. [info]
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Numerology Hearts desire number calculated from vowels:
mess: 5 = 5, reduced: 5 . and the final result is Five. |
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