Definitions for mesh

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IPA: /mɛʃ/

Mesh is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 29 anagrams from letters in mesh (ehms).

Definitions for mesh

noun

1. any knit, woven, or knotted fabric of open texture.
2. an interwoven or intertwined structure; network.
3. any arrangement of interlocking metal links or wires with evenly spaced, uniform small openings between, as used in jewelry or sieves.
4. one of the open spaces between the cords or ropes of a net.
5. meshes. the threads that bind such spaces. the means of catching or holding fast:
6. Machinery. the engagement of gear teeth.
7. Electricity. a set of branches that forms a closed path in a network so that removal of a branch results in an open path.
8. Metallurgy. a designation of a given fineness of powder used in powder metallurgy in terms of the number of the finest screen through which almost all the particles will pass:

verb (used with object)

1. to catch or entangle in or as if in a net; enmesh.
2. to form with meshes, as a net.
3. Machinery. to engage, as gear teeth.
4. to cause to match, coordinate, or interlock:

verb (used without object)

1. to become enmeshed.
2. Machinery. to become or be engaged, as the teeth of one gear with those of another.
3. to match, coordinate, or interlock:

Origin of mesh

1375-1425; late Middle English mesch, apparently continuing Old English masc, max; akin to Old High German māsca, Middle Dutch maesche

Examples for mesh

They cling to the walls, hang off the ceiling, bounce persistently against the mesh opening, trying to get at us.

Be careful not to take one mesh out, until you have completed the next row.

By the very strength of her nature she was caught in the mesh of Diana's scheme.

But unfortunately, along that way, we had some mesh tank tops and we had some baggy denim Sean John jumpsuits— JACOB: Sean John!

“To the left of the pedestrian gate, which is wooden, is a mesh gate, and that had been cut,” testified Bloom.

Net the first row plain, having the silk round the mesh twice.

By pressing tightly against the mesh Bentley could see the headlines.

Apologies, of course, if you have done cocaine at a Williamsburg rave while wearing a mesh tanktop recently.

Tomlinson tackles all of these, and more, and tries to make them all mesh in his tale.

The engine hit at once and Stan slammed the gears into mesh.