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Mesh   /mɛʃ/   Listen
noun
Mesh  n.  
1.
The opening or space inclosed by the threads of a net between knot and knot, or the threads inclosing such a space; network; a net. "A golden mesh to entrap the hearts of men."
2.
(Gearing) The engagement of the teeth of wheels, or of a wheel and rack.
Mesh stick, a stick on which the mesh is formed in netting.


verb
Mesh  v. t.  (past & past part. meshed; pres. part. meshing)  To catch in a mesh.


Mesh  v. i.  (Gearing) To engage with each other, as the teeth of wheels.





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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"Mesh" Quotes from Famous Books



... like the strings and meshes of a net. In the one limit of minimum of mesh, the net passes into sack-cloth, where nothing could get through. In the other limit of maximum of mesh, the net vanishes, and everything would get through. We cannot praise in the abstract either a large mesh or a small one: the right size is according to the purpose for which the net is to be used ...
— Moral Philosophy • Joseph Rickaby, S. J.
... walking up Broadway. This fact calls sharply for comment, for he had not done it in years; the thoroughfare was intolerable to him. But one of its impingements upon a less blatant avenue had caught him napping and he found himself entangled in a mesh of theatre dribblings, pool-room loungers, wine-touts and homeward bent women of the middle, shopping class. Being there, he scorned to avail himself of the regularly recurring cross streets, but strode along, his straight, trim bulk, his keen, judicial profile—a profile ...
— Margarita's Soul - The Romantic Recollections of a Man of Fifty • Ingraham Lovell
... his eyes. He breasted higher, and they were all about him now; his struggles evoked glowing bubble-jewels which drifted upward to expire. He grasped the soft roots and twisted and sought to raise himself. He had a hand to the surface bulbs, but a silken mesh seemed tightening about him. ...
— O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921 • Various
... his dress. His broad shoulders seemed slender in the loose blouse of blue silk; a narrow scarf of brilliant color was loosely tied; the close, full-length cream-colored trousers were supported by a belt of woven metal, while his shoes were of the coarse-mesh fabric ...
— Astounding Stories, May, 1931 • Various
... and sat there for a long time in silence. The little seat was in shadow, but the zenith was pale blue with the effulgence of the stage overhead, and all the city spread below them, squares and circles and patches of brilliance caught in a mesh-work of light. The little stars seemed very faint and small: near as they had been to the old-world watcher, they had become now infinitely remote. Yet one could see them in the darkened patches amidst the glare, and especially in the northward sky, the ...
— Tales of Space and Time • Herbert George Wells


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