英语词汇“mesh”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	mesh
释义	mesh I. \ˈmesh\ noun (-es) Usage: often attributive Etymology: probably from obsolete Dutch maesche, masche, from Middle Dutch maessce; akin to Old English masc, max, mǣscre mesh, Old Saxon & Old High German masca, Old Norse möskvi mesh, Lithuanian mazgas knot, megsti to weave nets, knot 1. : one of the openings between the threads or cords of a net; also : one of the similar spaces in any network < the meshes of a sieve > < lock joint holds each mesh in true alignment — American Fence Catalog > < steel mesh used for reinforcing concrete — Dict. of Occupations > — often used to designate a size of screen or of the material passed by a screen in terms of the number of such openings per linear inch < the mesh of the bolting wire — Correspondence Course in Flour Milling > < a 60-mesh screen > < 30-mesh granulated zinc > 2. a. : the cords, threads, or wires that produce the open spaces in a net or screen : the fabric of a net < built a ramp out of wire mesh — W.B.Huie > — often used in plural < a net with almost invisible meshes > b. : a woven, knit, or knotted fabric that has an open texture with evenly spaced small holes < mesh hose > < a mesh handbag > specifically : the net background fabric of many laces c. : an arrangement of interlocking metal links used especially for jewelry < mesh bracelet > d. : a flexible netting of fine wire used in surgery especially in the repair of large hernias and other body defects 3. a. : an interlocking or intertwining arrangement or construction : network, web < a mesh of narrow streets — John Buchan > < the mesh of irrigation canals — American Guide Series: Oregon > b. : something that catches and holds or involves : toils, snare — usually used in plural < took to panhandling, got detained in the meshes of the big city — Dixon Wecter > < diplomacy caught in its own meshes > c. : an intricate or inscrutable system or combination < fixed in the mesh of the divine purpose — V.L.Parrington > < book is a gigantic dense mesh of complicated relations — Edmund Wilson > < a mesh of circumstance > 4. : working contact (as of the teeth of gear wheels or of a slide fastener) — used especially in the phrases in mesh and out of mesh 5. : a closed figure produced by joining electrical components in series < mesh connection > II. verb (-ed/-ing/-es) *transitive verb* 1. a. : to catch in a mesh : net < nets … of such a mesh size that the fish are meshed — Australian Fisheries > b. : enmesh, entangle < the unseen anchor meshed in rock or bar — Spencer Brown > < become meshed in thought > 2. a. : to provide with a mesh b. : to cause to resemble network < the city was meshed in haze — New Yorker > < trees meshed with sunlight > 3. a. : to come into or be in working contact with especially by the fitting together of teeth : engage b. : to cause to come into working contact especially by the fitting together of teeth < noiselessly he meshed the gears — C.B.Kelland > c. : to coordinate closely (as in a satisfactory working arrangement) : interlock < the idea is to mesh the know-how and experience of the regulars with the enthusiasm of the amateur volunteers — Raymond Moley > : fit together properly < learn to mesh layouts — Mademoiselle > *intransitive verb* 1. : to become entangled in or as if in meshes < the fish will not mesh today > 2. : to be in or come into proper working contact — used especially of gears or other toothed working parts < wooden-cogged wheels meshing at an angle — A.L.Kroeber > < a slide fastener that will not mesh > 3. : to combine or fit together intricately, properly, or harmoniously : accord, coordinate, harmonize < making the operations of the mind mesh with physical actuality — Aram Vartanian > < my plans are meshing together smoothly — C.A.Lindbergh b. 1902 > < two themes that do not quite mesh when they meet — Lisle Bell > < an integrating and meshing of personalities — D.L.Cohn > III. dialect variant of marsh IV. dialect variant of mash
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