Found 3 items, similar to mess.
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: mess
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English → English (WordNet)
Definition: mess
mess
n 1: a state of confusion and disorderliness;
“the house was a
mess”;
“she smoothed the mussiness of the bed” [syn:
messiness,
muss,
mussiness]
2: informal terms for a difficult situation;
“he got into a
terrible fix”;
“he made a muddle of his marriage” [syn:
fix,
hole,
jam,
muddle,
pickle,
kettle of fish]
3: soft semiliquid food;
“a mess of porridge”
4: a meal eaten by service personnel
5: a (large) military dining room where service personnel eat
or relax [syn:
mess hall]
6: (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” [syn:
batch,
deal,
flock,
good deal
,
great deal,
hatful,
heap,
lot,
mass,
mickle,
mint,
muckle,
peck,
pile,
plenty,
pot,
quite a little
,
raft,
sight,
slew,
spate,
stack,
tidy sum
,
wad,
whole lot,
whole slew]
mess
v 1: eat in a mess hall
2: make a mess of or create disorder in;
“He messed up his
room” [syn:
mess up]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Mess
Mess
\Mess\ (m[e^]s), n.
Mass; church service. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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Mess
\Mess\ (m[e^]s), 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.
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At their savory dinner set
Of herbs and other country messes. --Milton.
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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.
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3. A set of four; -- from the old practice of dividing
companies into sets of four at dinner. [Obs.] --Latimer.
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4. The milk given by a cow at one milking. [U.S.]
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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.]
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Mess
\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.
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Mess
\Mess\, v. t.
1. To supply with a mess.
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2. To make a mess[5] of; to disorder or muddle; to muss; to
jumble; to disturb; to mess up.
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It was n't right either to be messing another man's
sleep. --Scribner's
Mag.
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