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MESH

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of interlocking or meshing

Example:

an interlocking of arms by the police held the crowd in check

Synonyms:

interlock; interlocking; mesh; meshing

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("mesh" is a kind of...):

catch; grab; snap; snatch (the act of catching an object with the hands)

Derivation:

mesh (keep engaged)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An open fabric of string or rope or wire woven together at regular intervals

Synonyms:

mesh; meshing; meshwork; net; network

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("mesh" is a kind of...):

cloth; fabric; material; textile (artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers)

Meronyms (parts of "mesh"):

backbone (the part of a network that connects other networks together)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mesh"):

chicken wire (a galvanized wire network with a hexagonal mesh; used to build fences)

gauze; netting; veiling (a net of transparent fabric with a loose open weave)

hairnet (a small net that some women wear over their hair to keep it in place)

reseau (a net or mesh foundation for lace)

safety net (a large strong net to catch circus acrobats who fall or jump from a trapeze)

save-all (a net hung between ship and pier while loading a ship)

snood (an ornamental net in the shape of a bag that confines a woman's hair; pins or ties at the back of the head)

spark arrester; sparker (a wire net to stop sparks from an open fireplace or smokestack)

tulle (a fine (often starched) net used for veils or tutus or gowns)

grillwork; wirework (mesh netting made of wires)

Derivation:

mesh (entangle or catch in (or as if in) a mesh)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The topology of a network whose components are all connected directly to every other component

Synonyms:

mesh; mesh topology

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("mesh" is a kind of...):

network topology; topology (the configuration of a communication network)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Contact by fitting together

Example:

the meshing of gears

Synonyms:

engagement; interlocking; mesh; meshing

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Hypernyms ("mesh" is a kind of...):

contact; impinging; striking (the physical coming together of two or more things)

Derivation:

mesh (keep engaged)

Sense 5

Meaning:

The number of openings per linear inch of a screen; measures size of particles

Example:

100 mesh powdered cellulose

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Hypernyms ("mesh" is a kind of...):

linear measure; linear unit (a unit of measurement of length)

Holonyms ("mesh" is a part of...):

in; inch (a unit of length equal to one twelfth of a foot)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Coordinate in such a way that all parts work together effectively

Synonyms:

interlock; mesh

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "mesh" is one way to...):

coordinate; organise; organize (bring order and organization to)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 2

Meaning:

Entangle or catch in (or as if in) a mesh

Synonyms:

enmesh; ensnarl; mesh

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "mesh" is one way to...):

entangle; mat; snarl; tangle (twist together or entwine into a confusing mass)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody PP
Somebody ----s something PP

Derivation:

mesh (an open fabric of string or rope or wire woven together at regular intervals)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Keep engaged

Example:

engaged the gears

Synonyms:

engage; lock; mesh; operate

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "mesh" is one way to...):

displace; move (cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "mesh"):

flip; switch; throw (cause to go on or to be engaged or set in operation)

ride (keep partially engaged by slightly depressing a pedal with the foot)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

mesh (the act of interlocking or meshing)

mesh; meshing (contact by fitting together)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Work together in harmony

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Hypernyms (to "mesh" is one way to...):

relate (have or establish a relationship to)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Credits

 Context examples: 

But that my girl should be entangled in the same meshes which held me was more than I could suffer.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The 22-mm scaffolds were shaped over a mold to mimic a hip joint surface and attached to a nylon mesh to maintain their shape.

(Stem cells grown on scaffold mimic hip joint cartilage, NIH)

An internal radiation treatment technique in which a piece of thin, flexible mesh made of vicryl and implanted with radioactive seeds is surgically attached to target tissue where it emits a low dose of radiation over a prolonged period of time.

(Mesh Brachytherapy, NCI Thesaurus)

I try to concentrate my attention on those netting-needles, on the meshes of the purse I am forming—I wish to think only of the work I have in my hands, to see only the silver beads and silk threads that lie in my lap; whereas, I distinctly behold his figure, and I inevitably recall the moment when I last saw it; just after I had rendered him, what he deemed, an essential service, and he, holding my hand, and looking down on my face, surveyed me with eyes that revealed a heart full and eager to overflow; in whose emotions I had a part.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

That these meshes; beginning with alarming and falsified accounts of the estate of which Mr. W. is the receiver, at a period when Mr. W. had launched into imprudent and ill-judged speculations, and may not have had the money, for which he was morally and legally responsible, in hand; going on with pretended borrowings of money at enormous interest, really coming from—HEEP—and by—HEEP—fraudulently obtained or withheld from Mr. W. himself, on pretence of such speculations or otherwise; perpetuated by a miscellaneous catalogue of unscrupulous chicaneries—gradually thickened, until the unhappy Mr. W. could see no world beyond.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)