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mesh

mɛʃ
WordNet
Coupon of black parasol mesh on both sides trimmed with three black satin stripes.
Coupon of black parasol mesh on both sides trimmed with three black satin stripes.
  1. (v) mesh
    coordinate in such a way that all parts work together effectively
  2. (v) mesh
    entangle or catch in (or as if in) a mesh
  3. (v) mesh
    keep engaged "engaged the gears"
  4. (v) mesh
    work together in harmony
  5. (n) mesh
    the act of interlocking or meshing "an interlocking of arms by the police held the crowd in check"
  6. (n) mesh
    an open fabric of string or rope or wire woven together at regular intervals
  7. (n) mesh
    the topology of a network whose components are all connected directly to every other component
  8. (n) mesh
    contact by fitting together "the engagement of the clutch","the meshing of gears"
  9. (n) mesh
    the number of openings per linear inch of a screen; measures size of particles "a 100 mesh screen","100 mesh powdered cellulose"
Illustrations
Black bobbin lace valance: Chantilly lace. On a mesh ceiling there is an almost symmetrical pattern of large s-sen, arranged in pairs, intersected by black flower garlands. The scallops are semi-circular and filled alternately with the aforementioned garland and with a leaf edge. Above the tops of the s-sen is a loose branch with anemone, tulip and daffodils. Above the second shell is a flower wreath. The inside and one side are decorated with a row of hearts and blossoms.
Black bobbin lace valance: Chantilly lace. On a mesh ceiling there is an almost symmetrical pattern of large s-sen, arranged in pairs, intersected by black flower garlands. The scallops are semi-circular and filled alternately with the aforementioned garland and with a leaf edge. Above the tops of the s-sen is a loose branch with anemone, tulip and daffodils. Above the second shell is a flower wreath. The inside and one side are decorated with a row of hearts and blossoms.
Black bobbin lace scarf: Chantilly lace. Rectangular model. A mesh base has a pattern that is symmetrical with respect to the short axis. One border features large corner lilies and close-knit peonies, roses, chrysanthemums and cluster flowers, forming a fairly straight outline. Inside is a lobed edge, filled with spirals or leaf sprigs and cut by flowers and branches. On the long sides the lobes are small and numerous, on the short sides there is one large arched scallop terminated by volutes. Branches with flowers hang over it; between two large, five-fold leaves is a tuft of a tulip and a peony. Some loose c-volutes occur in the spandrels. Along the long sides are sickle-shaped curves connected by thin streamers. From the arched transverse scallops each time a large branch with multifarious flowers grows, which are covered by a gate of c-scrolls with hanging garlands. The center is filled with loose streamers, small bouquets of roses and rose petals.
Black bobbin lace scarf: Chantilly lace. Rectangular model. A mesh base has a pattern that is symmetrical with respect to the short axis. One border features large corner lilies and close-knit peonies, roses, chrysanthemums and cluster flowers, forming a fairly straight outline. Inside is a lobed edge, filled with spirals or leaf sprigs and cut by flowers and branches. On the long sides the lobes are small and numerous, on the short sides there is one large arched scallop terminated by volutes. Branches with flowers hang over it; between two large, five-fold leaves is a tuft of a tulip and a peony. Some loose c-volutes occur in the spandrels. Along the long sides are sickle-shaped curves connected by thin streamers. From the arched transverse scallops each time a large branch with multifarious flowers grows, which are covered by a gate of c-scrolls with hanging garlands. The center is filled with loose streamers, small bouquets of roses and rose petals.
Folding fan with black silk mesh top with application of black machine lace with floral ornaments and C-scrolls, the edge is scaly. The black-painted wooden frame is carved in relief, has 18 unconnected legs, of which the right outer leg is cut openwork. The fan has a metal fan ring and a black mother-of-pearl disc. Possibly a mourning fan.
Folding fan with black silk mesh top with application of black machine lace with floral ornaments and C-scrolls, the edge is scaly. The black-painted wooden frame is carved in relief, has 18 unconnected legs, of which the right outer leg is cut openwork. The fan has a metal fan ring and a black mother-of-pearl disc. Possibly a mourning fan.
A family consisting of a father, mother and three children views a mesh-covered vegetable garden along a garden path.
A family consisting of a father, mother and three children views a mesh-covered vegetable garden along a garden path.
Parasol cover in black bobbin lace: Chantilly lace. Eight sectors with an empty mesh stock have pointed-oval fields, flanked by narrow pointed ovals. The outlines consist partly of ivy tendrils, partly of straight moldings; the fillings consist of a flower bouquet. Heart-shaped medallions and an oak leaf edge form broad scallops; a rose encased in two leaves forms small scallops. A separate pumpkin of the same side has been applied to the top.
Parasol cover in black bobbin lace: Chantilly lace. Eight sectors with an empty mesh stock have pointed-oval fields, flanked by narrow pointed ovals. The outlines consist partly of ivy tendrils, partly of straight moldings; the fillings consist of a flower bouquet. Heart-shaped medallions and an oak leaf edge form broad scallops; a rose encased in two leaves forms small scallops. A separate pumpkin of the same side has been applied to the top.
Natural colored needle lace collar: Brussels mesh lace. Round model. The repeating and symmetrical pattern consists of two male peacocks facing away from each other, with hanging tails and sitting on a round medallion of flowers. Between the successive pairs of peacocks there is always a column, which tapers towards the center of the collar, with a flower garland at the top that is held in the beak by the peacocks. A fitted pattern with stylized water lilies runs along the neckline. All edges are finished with a geometric pattern including openwork squares. The motifs are connected by a mesh ground. The motifs are made with festoon stitches and provided with relief contour lines. Decorative stitches have been used in the openwork medallions, the openwork squares along the edges and in the columns and peacock tails.
Natural colored needle lace collar: Brussels mesh lace. Round model. The repeating and symmetrical pattern consists of two male peacocks facing away from each other, with hanging tails and sitting on a round medallion of flowers. Between the successive pairs of peacocks there is always a column, which tapers towards the center of the collar, with a flower garland at the top that is held in the beak by the peacocks. A fitted pattern with stylized water lilies runs along the neckline. All edges are finished with a geometric pattern including openwork squares. The motifs are connected by a mesh ground. The motifs are made with festoon stitches and provided with relief contour lines. Decorative stitches have been used in the openwork medallions, the openwork squares along the edges and in the columns and peacock tails.
Gaze lisse dress decorated with satin points and satin ribbons. Coeffure with mesh ribbons. Around the neck a necklace with a pendant in the shape of a cross. Folded fan. Figure in the same dress, seen from the back. The print is part of the fashion magazine Journal des Dames et des Modes, published by Pierre de la Mésangère, Paris, 1797-1839. Tied with Le Petit Courrier des Dames. January 15, 1827 to March 20, 1830. Incomplete.
Gaze lisse dress decorated with satin points and satin ribbons. Coeffure with mesh ribbons. Around the neck a necklace with a pendant in the shape of a cross. Folded fan. Figure in the same dress, seen from the back. The print is part of the fashion magazine Journal des Dames et des Modes, published by Pierre de la Mésangère, Paris, 1797-1839. Tied with Le Petit Courrier des Dames. January 15, 1827 to March 20, 1830. Incomplete.
A wide edge of lace has a ground of radially directed meshes, on which scattered leaves and a closed edge of hanging flower sprigs. Alençon lace.
A wide edge of lace has a ground of radially directed meshes, on which scattered leaves and a closed edge of hanging flower sprigs. Alençon lace.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Mesh
    (Gearing) The engagement of the teeth of wheels, or of a wheel and rack.
  2. Mesh
    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."
  3. Mesh
    To catch in a mesh.
  4. Mesh
    (Gearing) To engage with each other, as the teeth of wheels.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. (n) mesh
    One of the clear spaces of a net or netting; an opening in network of a size determined by the distance apart of the knots by which the crossing twines or threads are united; also, a clear space between the threads or wires of a sieve.
  2. (n) mesh
    Figuratively, network; means of entanglement; anything that serves to entangle or constrain: often in the plural: as, the meshes of the law.
  3. (n) mesh
    plural In lace and similar fabrics, the whole background, often formed of threads very irregularly spaced.
  4. (n) mesh
    In machinery, the engagement of the teeth of gearing : as, the mesh of a toothed wheel with the teeth of a rack or with the cogs of another wheel.
  5. (n) mesh
    A tool used in embroidery, knitting, etc., for the production of stitching of regular size, and sometimes having a groove to guide the scissors.
  6. mesh
    To make in meshes; form the meshes of.
  7. mesh
    To catch in a net, as fish; hence, to entangle; entrap in meshes.
  8. mesh
    To engage (the teeth of wheels or the teeth of a rack and pinion) with each other.
  9. mesh
    To make meshes or nets.
  10. mesh
    To become engaged, as the teeth of one wheel with those of another.
  11. mesh
    An obsolete or dialectal form of mash.
  12. (n) mesh
    One of the subdivisons of a head or ear of wheat; a wheat spikelet.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. (n) Mesh
    mesh the opening between the threads of a net: the threads and knots which bound the opening: network
  2. (v.t) Mesh
    to catch in a net: to engage or interlock, as gear-teeth
  3. (v.i) Mesh
    to become engaged thus
Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary AS. masc, max, mæscre,; akin to D. maas, masche, OHG. masca, Icel. möskvi,; cf. Lith. mazgas, a knot, megsti, to weave nets, to knot

Usage in the news

It takes a hot second in the audience of the Denton, Texas, band to realize that it doesn't fit the knee-jerk definitions that find it filed next to Wilco by slumming CPAs in mesh-back hats. sfweekly.com

(A coworker suggested a mesh strainer, but we don't have one. news-gazette.com

Mayor Cherie Kidd, center, snips a section of fiber optic cable with Police Chief Terry Gallagher and City Councilwoman Brooke Nelson during Monday's ceremony launching "The Mesh" Internet network. peninsuladailynews.com

During a ceremony today, city officials will mark the official beginning of a "mesh network". konp.com

Strain the tomato- clam broth through a fine-mesh strainer into a large bowl or saucepan, discarding the solids. sacbee.com

Mark's spin on a Deco Mesh 4th. macon.com

Mark Ballard spins Deco Mesh into a festive 4th of July wreath. macon.com

The kid with Down syndrome is an inspirational thread tightly meshed within the fabric of a welcoming student body. phillyburbs.com

The parents of a 4-year-old girl who authorities say was confined at night in a bed wrapped with steel mesh fencing have been charged with kidnapping and child endangerment. lky.com

"Columbus" appears on the outer side of the back of the seat, above a mesh pocket. dispatch.com

"This one's like a submarine," he says, opening the hatch and sliding out a metal mesh cage. onlineathens.com

The question will be the ability of the young players stepping up and meshing well with the offense. kxii.com

Country meshed with Southern rock, metal, comedy and Broadway are represented in a quartet of concerts announced this week. blog.mysanantonio.com

The Mavericks' attempt to mesh on the fly turned into a mess last season. espn.go.com

What they almost certainly would not think of is screen mesh wire, but if they saw the works of Germantown sculptor Anyta Thomas, they would realize it is great art indeed that would look right at home in the nation's finest galleries. chestnuthilllocal.com

Usage in scientific papers

In the next section II we briefly describe our adaptive mesh refinement method of calculating initial black hole data.
Local and global properties of conformally flat initial data for black hole collisions

The mesh is refined on the level of individual cells using a fully threaded tree structure .
Local and global properties of conformally flat initial data for black hole collisions

We plane to use similar adaptive mesh refinement for the integration of these initial data in time.
Local and global properties of conformally flat initial data for black hole collisions

This represents a severe limitation for adaptive mesh refinement codes which are able to achieve much higher dynamic range.
Multiscale Gaussian Random Fields for Cosmological Simulations

Our algorithms are the equivalent of adaptive mesh refinement applied to Gaussian random fields.
Multiscale Gaussian Random Fields for Cosmological Simulations

Usage in literature

I was already meshed in the loom of destiny. "Paradise Garden" by George Gibbs

Alice threw back her lace veil as if she were stifled by the transparent mesh. "One Man in His Time" by Ellen Glasgow

You will soon be in the meshes. "A Friend of Caesar" by William Stearns Davis

It is sometimes very difficult to escape from the meshes of friendship. "The Claverings" by Anthony Trollope

Horizontal network 1.01 m. square, and having meshes of the same size as those of the reticulated ribbon. "Scientific American Supplement, No. 441, June 14, 1884." by Various

I have meshed him at last, and now for vengeance. "Valentine M'Clutchy, The Irish Agent The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two" by William Carleton

They always feeds in that mesh when they're bidin' about the Bay. "Troop One of the Labrador" by Dillon Wallace

How could I sleep when I was trying to disentangle this mesh of deception and lies? "Uncle Max" by Rosa Nouchette Carey

The meshes of the net were large and not very regular. "The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 2. (of 7): Assyria" by George Rawlinson

Of all the souls of this generation, the number that will sift through the meshes of the years is infinitesimately small. "The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864" by Various

Usage in poetry
In this small ring of flesh;
The sky's gold-knotted mesh
Thy wrist
Did only twist
"Any Saint" by Francis Thompson Author object (215)
Caught in a mesh of living veins,
In cell of padded bone,
He loneliest is when he pretends
That he is not alone.
"Listen..." by Ogden Nash Author object (515)
We are tempted;--snares abound,--
Sin its treacherous meshes weaves;
And temptations strew us round,
Thicker than the Autumn leaves.
"Beechenbrook - VII" by Margaret Junkin Preston Author object (460)
An angel from the heaven above
Would not be fair to us as she is fair:
She holds us in a mesh of silken hair,
This one sweet woman whom we love.
"Love" by Victor James Daley Author object (668)
So far from praising he blasphemes
Who says that God has been or is,
Who swears he met with God in dreams
Or face to face in woods and streams,
Meshed in their boundaries.
"Knowledge Of God" by Robert Graves Author object (568)
But on a sudden—­hark! Music struck asunder
Those meshes of bliss, and I wept in the dark,
So sweet was the unseen wonder;
So swiftly it touched, as if struck at a mark,
The trouble that joy kept under.
"A Cottage In A Chine" by Jean Ingelow Author object (347)