Mesh

Definition: Mesh

Mesh

Noun

1. The number of opening per inch of a screen; measures size of particles; "a 100 mesh screen" or "100 mesh powdered cellulose".

2. Contact by fitting together; "the engagement of the clutch"; "the meshing of gears".

3. An interconnected or intersecting configuration or system of components; "there was a hole in the network where some of the strands were broken"; "he used a copper frame with copper meshing".

4. An open fabric woven together at regular intervals.

5. The act of interlocking or meshing; "an interlocking of arms by the police held the crowd in check".

Verb

1. Keep engaged; "engaged the gears".

2. Coordinate in such a way that all parts work together effectively.

3. Work together in harmony.

4. Entangle or catch in in or as if in a mesh.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "mesh" was first used: 1540. (references)

Computing

Industry

Electrical Engineering

Food & Agriculture

Mechanical Engineering

Metallurgy

Mining

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MeSH

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Mesh

Crossing

Net, plexus, web, mesh, twill, skein, sleeve, felt, lace; wicker; mat, matting; plait, trellis, wattle, lattice, grating, grille, gridiron, tracery, fretwork, filigree, reticle; tissue, netting, mokes; rivulation.

Interval

Noun: interval, interspace; separation; break, gap, opening; hole; chasm, hiatus, caesura; interruption, interregnum; interstice, lacuna, cleft, mesh, crevice, chink, rime, creek, cranny, crack, chap, slit, fissure, scissure, rift, flaw, breach, rent, gash, cut, leak, dike, ha-ha.

Crosswords: Mesh

Portuguese (mesh).

My roommate is from Canada, so we told him that American girls really like it when guys wear mesh tank tops and quote Billy Joel (Saturday Night Live; writing credit: Doug Abeles; Leo Allen)

The Gold Mesh Bag (1913)

Mesh (1990)

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Books

• An Introduction to Mesh Generation (reference)

• Feed the Birds/Sturdy Mesh Feed Bag (reference)

• Finite Element Mesh Generation (reference)

• Geometry and Topology for Mesh Generation (reference)

• Mesh Free Methods: Moving Beyond the Finite Element Method (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Mesh (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• 30 Capacity CD Wire Tower with Mesh Black (reference)

• Handspring Mesh Modulecase (Gray/Gray) for all Visors (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• Cuisipro 8-Inch Double Medium Mesh Strainer (reference)

• Norpro Stainless Steel 8-Inch Mesh Strainer (reference)

• Rösle Tea Strainer, Fine Mesh (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

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Diagram illustrating concept of selectivity of mesh size on size of fish captured during trawling operations. Credit: Fisheries.

Chris Doley of the NOAA Restoration Center fishing gillnets to collect larger fish that inhabit near-shore shallow water habitats. The numbers and types of species were measured to compare and determine large species fish use of shallow water habitats at Poplar Island. The nets used had 3 sizes of mesh. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Placement of the catch/samples into buckets. There were 3 mesh sizes used for each gillnet. The catch from each panel was placed in separate buckets to track the size and quantity of species brought in for each net's mesh size. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Figure 47. A large mesh net designed by Prince Albert I of Monaco for use in towing at high speed. This net was constructed in 1896 and used on board the PRINCESSE-ALICE but was not very effective and its use was discontinued. It was tested on the PRINCESSE-ALICE off Monaco in 2148 meters in 1896. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Figure 1. A Cori net, devised by the Austrian Carl Cori at the Trieste zoological station in 1899. This net was used for a variety of studies , primarily depending on the size of the mesh of the net. This net was first tested in the Adriatic near Trieste. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Double mesh net fish trap being deployed. Trap will be attached to the buoy by a line for later recovery. Plate V, print 10. In: "Results of the Scientific Campaigns of the Prince of Monaco." Vol. 89. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Return of a mesh net on the ship. Plate VI, print 24. In: "Results of the Scientific Campaigns of the Prince of Monaco." Vol. 89. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

U.S. Army Engineers haul a roll of wire mesh into position to make a beach roadway, at Salerno, circa September 1943. USS LST-1 is in the center background. Credit: NAVY.

Linda Darnell in her dressing room, wearing everyday cotton mesh stockings as a part of her rehearsal costume. Credit: Library of Congress.

Cotton stockings. Dorothy Lamour on the set of "The Fleet's In," with her costume as a nightclub singer in the picture, she is wearing fine point lisle mesh stockings which have been specially designed for evening wear. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Health

Sometimes the weak area is reinforced with steel mesh or wire. This operation is called hernioplasty. (references)

Additionally, surgical attention should be directed to preventing small intestine loops from entering the pelvis, using either natural structures or synthetic mesh. Chemotherapy should be administered by oncologists skilled in the administration of these toxic agents. (references)

Civil Liberties

Afghanistan

The Taliban, following its extreme interpretation of Shari'a, required women when in public to wear a head-to-toe garment known as the burqa, which has only a mesh screen for vision. (references)

Economic History

Kuwait

In addition, American suppliers' preference for turnkey projects often does not mesh with Kuwait's preference to split projects into a series of separately-tendered smaller projects. (references)

Bahrain

Over the years, the sector has expanded from basic smelting to a host of downstream operations, including a rolling mill, an extrusion plant, a cable plant, factories producing aluminum powder and wire mesh screening, and two automobile wheel factories. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "mesh": be in mesh ♦ bring out of mesh ♦ diamond mesh ♦ distortion of the mesh ♦ element mesh ♦ gear mesh ♦ in mesh ♦ mesh equation ♦ mesh of railways ♦ mesh of teeth ♦ mesh pin ♦ mesh size of a square meshed pan or window ♦ mesh stick ♦ mesh stockings ♦ mesh structure ♦ stone mesh ♦ Surgical Mesh ♦ wire mesh ♦ wire mesh cage. Additional references.

Beginning with "mesh": mesh-length, mesh-lengths, mesh-work.

Ending with "mesh": fine-mesh, steel-mesh, wire-mesh.

Containing "mesh": wire-mesh window.

Albanian

vrimë (aperture, bore, dump, ear, excavation, eye, eyehole, eyelet, gap, hole, leak, mortise, mouth, notch, notching, nozzle, open, opening, orifice, Peck, perforation, pinhole, prick, puncture, recession, rent, shell-hole, slit, slot, tear, vent, venthole), syth (bud, eye, gemma, germ, leaf bud, shoot, stitch), rrjetë (cabling, drag, net, netting, reticle, screen, seine, sweep net, toils, trail-net), lak (halter, lasso, loop, necklace, noose, slipknot, tag, thong, trap), kurth (corral, deadfall, decoy, gin, hook, mantrap, net, noose, pitfall, plant, rat-trap, snare, springe, trap, wile), kap me rrjetë (net, trammel), ingranohem, ilik (buttonhole, noose, shank, stitch, tab, tag), grackë (booby trap, cobweb, deadfall, decoy, gin, hook, mantrap, net, noose, pitfall, rat-trap, snare, springe, trap), gojëz (bit, muzzle, put a muzzle on), bie në rrjetë. (various references)

Arabic 

‏تناغم (chord, concert, concord, consistency, harmony, rhythm, strain, symphony, tone, tune, tuning), ‏تعشيق, ‏خيوط الشبكة, ‏إنسجم (blend, chime, concord, consort, correspond, get along with, harmonize, square, tone), ‏إندمج (amalgamate, coalesce, consolidate, incorporate, integrate, merge, slot), ‏إصطاد بالشبكة (net), ‏شبكية العين (retina). (various references)

Bulgarian 

улавям (catch, catch out, clutch, detect, entrap, get, grapple, grasp, grip, gripe, pick up), клуп (loop, noose, sling), клетка (bay, cage, cell, mew), впримчвам (decoy, ensnare, entrap, implicate, noose, snare, vamp), отвор (aperture, eye, hole, mortise, mouth, nose, opening, orifice, perforation, port, vent), зацепване (engagement, gearing), зацепвам се (gear, pitch), зацепвам (couple, engage, enmesh, hitch, pitch), затворена верига (ring), бримка (ladder, stitch), примка (deadfall, game, halter, loop, noose, snare, trap), дупка (cavity, chamber, delve, dump, earth, gap, hole, hutch, leak, opening, perforation, pit, pore, rent, scoop, tear, vent). (various references)

Chinese 

網孔 , 滤网. (various references)

Czech

pletivo (netting, tissue), past (mantrap, pit, pitfall, snare, trap), oko (eye, kink, noose, pip, snare, spot, springe, tarn), buòka (cell). (various references)

Danish

mesh, maske (mask), være i indgreb (be engaged, be in mesh, engage), trådnet (fencing, wire netting), trådhegn (fencing, strained wire fence, wire fence, wire netting), sigtemaske, indkoble (engage), hegn (fence, fencing, hedge, hurdle, paling, paling fence, picket fence, wattle, wire netting), gitter (bar screen, bridge, bridgewall, checkers, checkerwork, grating, grid, grid of an X-ray tube, grillage, hearth, lattice, rack screen, regenerator packing), gear i indgreb (engagement, gear mesh, gear tooth engagement, mesh of teeth), fyldesi (filler inlet filter, filling strainer, filter basket, tank filter), betonvaev (lath). (various references)

Dutch

maas (loop, Meuse), strik (loop), steek (loop, prick, spades, sting, stitch), breisteek (loop). (various references)

Esperanto

maŝo (loop). (various references)

Faeroese

meskur (loop), snara (loop, snare, turn, turn around, turn away, turn round), eyga (eye, loop). (various references)

Farsi 

چشمه (Fountain, Source, Spring, Springhead, Well), گیرانداختن (Circumvent, Entangle, Involve, Knot), تورمانندیامشبک کردن , تورساختن , سوراخ تورپشه بند, سوراخ (Bore, Hole, Leak, Orifice, Outage, Overture, Peck, Pigenhole, Puncture), جورشدن (Piece), شبکه ساختن , شبکه (Grate, Grating, Grille, Lattice, Net, Network, Plexus, Trellis), درهم (Indistinct, Mixed, Shaggy). (various references)

Finnish

silmukka (eyelet, loop, noose, stitch coil), silmä (eye, stitch). (various references)

French

s'engrener (be in mesh), maille, engrener (be in mesh). (various references)

German

Masche (craze, dodge, fad, hole, ladder, link, loop, pitch, ploy, run, stitch, trick), Maschendraht (wire netting), Gitter (bars, fireguard, grate, grating, gratings, grid, grids, grill, grille, lattice, lattices, latticework, railing, trellis, trellises), eingreifen (encroach, gear, interfere, interpose, intervene, intervention, to encroach, to interfere, to intervene). (various references)

Greek 

πλέγμα (grid, gridiron, lattice, nexus, plexus), ζεύξη (be engaged, be in mesh, bracing, engage, interstage link, interswitch link, junction, link, trunk). (various references)

Hebrew 

ללכוד ברשת (net), לשלב (combine, dovetail, integrate, interlace, work in), להשתלב (dovetail, integrate), לסבך (complicate, confuse, embroil, implicate, involve, mess, sophisticate), שלוב (combination, conjunction, connection, dovetailing, integration, joining, synthesis), שבכה (grate, grid, lattice, lattice work, net, network, reticulation), רשת (chain, grid, net, network, snare). (various references)

Hungarian

háló (lattice, net, nett, netting, reticule, snare, springe, tunnel, web). (various references)

Indonesian

menghubungkan (connect, consoin, consugate, join), bertautan (be linked with, connected, related to). (various references)

Italian

presa (bite, capture, catching, clam, clamp, clutch, grab, grasp, grip, hand-grip, hold, holdfast, intake, outlet, pinch, purchase, seizing, seizure, snatch, taking, tap), maglia (Jersey, jumper, knitting, link, stitch, sweater, undershirt, vest). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

網目 (halftone), メチル基 (Mecca, methyl group), メキシコ湾流 (blank plug, Gulf Stream, mage, major, major label, Major League, measure, measuring, Mekong delta, Messiah, scalpel, surgical knife). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

メッシュ , メシュ , あみめ (halftone, stitch). (various references)

Korean 

메시. (various references)

Pig Latin

eshmay.(various references)

Portuguese

malha (brindle, jersey, knitting, loop, quoit, stitch, sweater, thrashing, threshing), rede (grid, lace, net, netting, network, snood, television network, toil, toils, tv network), laço (bond, cufflink, decoy, decoy-duck, fillet, knot, lace, lariat, lasso, link, loop, mantrap, rope, shoe-lace, snare, snood, springe, tie, trap, tying, yoke), engrenar (cog, gear, hinge, interlock). (various references)

Romanian

reţea (chain, grid, hair net, lace, net, netting, network, reticula, reticulum, system), prinde în mreje (entangle), prinde în cursã (gin, trap), plasã (dress-guard, fishing net, gauze, hair net, net, netful, netting, network), ochi de sitã, ochi (aim, cover, covet, eyes, Gemma, glade, glances, link, loop, optic, orb, peeper, pink, pip, ring, scan, sight, stitch, suspect, take aim at, take sight, train, vortex), nãvod (drag-net, fishing net, netful, network, seine, trammel, trawl), face ochiuri din, angrena (engage, rally), împleti nãvoade, împleti (braid, criss cross, entwine, entwist, interlace, intertwine, interweave, knit, mat, plait, plash, twine, weave, work, wreathe). (various references)

Russian 

ячейка сети, сцепляться, сетка сетчатый, сети (net, toils), очко (match point, match-point, pip, point, pontoon), отверстие сита, зацеплять (engage, grapple, grappling, pitch), зацепление (engagement, gearing), западня (deadfall, decoy, gin, net, pit, pitfall, snare, springe, trapfall, trap-hole), поймать в сети, петля (ansa, buttonhole, hinge, hitch, kink, loop, noose, self-loop, stitch, tag). (various references)

Scottish

mogul (a husk, as of nut; mesh, husk, interstice of). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

mreža (chain, meshes, net, netting, network, reticle, reticulation, reticule, screen, seine, trammel, web), zaplesti (braid, ravel), zamrsiti (foul, foul up, mess up, muddle, ravel, tangle), zamka (bight, catch, deadfall, gin, noose, pitfall, snare, springe, trap), uhvatiti u mrežu, okce mreže. (various references)

Spanish

malla (bathing costume, bathing suit, body stocking, mail, net, netting, network), engranar (catch, engage, gear, interlock). (various references)

Swedish

nätmaska, maska (finesse, ladder, Mike, run, scrimshank, skulk, slack up, stitch, swing the lead), koppla in (connect, engage, gear). (various references)

Thai

ทำให้เข้ากัน (tie together), ทำงานร่วมกัน (coact), กับดัก (snare), ตาข่าย (nett). (various references)

Turkish

tuzağa düşürmek (ambuscade, circumvent, decoy, enmesh, ensnare, entrap, gin, net, snare, springe, trammel, trap), birbirine geçmek (imbricate, intertwine, lock, work together), birbirine geçme (engagement), ağ ile tutmak, ağ gözü, ağ (cobweb, dragnet, filet, fishnet, gin, graticule, net, netting, network, plexus, reticular, spider's web, spiderweb, system, tissue). (various references)

Ukrainian

отвір (air gap, aperture, bore, boring, breach, break, canal, clearance, embrasure, gape, hole, mouth, open, opening, orifice, ostiole, perforation, port, ventage, window), зачіпка (holdfast), заплутуватися в сітці, ловити в тенета. (various references)

Vietnamese 

bẫy (lurchingly). (various references)

Welsh

maglu (snare, trip), magl (snare). (various references)

max. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "mesh": meshed, meshes, meshier, meshiest, meshing, meshuga, meshugah, meshugga, meshuggah, meshugge, meshuggener, meshuggeners, meshwork, meshworks, meshy. (additional references)

Words ending with "mesh": enmesh, immesh, inmesh, intermesh, synchromesh, unmesh. (additional references)

Words containing "mesh": enmeshed, enmeshes, enmeshing, enmeshment, enmeshments, frameshift, frameshifts, immeshed, immeshes, immeshing, inmeshed, inmeshes, inmeshing, intermeshed, intermeshes, intermeshing, synchromeshes, unmeshed, unmeshes, unmeshing. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Mesh" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: eesh, emesh, emph, Emrh, esh, mahh, masha, masj, Mbershi, meah, mech, mechs, mecs, Medha, Medhi, Meehl, mees, meez, mefs, meghe, meh, mehl, mehn, Meho, mehr, Mehu, meishi, melsh, menh, mensh, menshe, mersh, mesc, mesch, Mesha, meshe, Meshix, Meshri, mesht, mesi, mesk, meskhi, mesm, mesn, mesp, Messr, mez, Mezy, mih, mihs, Misho, misph, mosh, mosht, msee, Msha, mwezi, Neesha, neish, Smersh. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: hems.

-1 letter: ems, hem, hes, she.

-2 letters: eh, em, es, he, hm, me, sh.

+1 letter: haems, hames, helms, hemes, hemps, herms, homes, meshy, meths, shame.

+2 letters: almehs, ashmen, chemos, chimes, chymes, enmesh, harems, hemins, homers, hymens, immesh, inmesh, maches, mahoes, mashed, masher, mashes, mashie, mensch, meshed, meshes, miches, mohels, moshed, mosher, moshes, muches, mushed, musher, mushes, rehems, rheums, rhymes, sachem, samech, samekh, schema, scheme, schmoe, shamed, shames, shmear, shmoes, theism, themes, therms, thymes, unmesh, whelms.