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mes.

mess (hall)

3 characters1 syllables approx.Bahasa Indonesia language

Meaning & usage

noun[ˈmɛs]
  1. mess (hall)

Where this word comes from

From Dutch mess (“mess”), from English mess, from Middle English mes, partly from Old English mēse, mēose (“table”); and partly from Old French mes, Late Latin missum, from mittō (“to put, place (e.g. on the table)”). Doublet of misa.

noun[ˈmɛs]
  1. scalpel, blade, medical knife

    colloquial
    Kemudian tampak fasia, diinsisi dengan memberikan mes no 22 dan dijepit dengan memberikan pinset cirurgis.
    Berikan mes no 15 dan pinset chirurgi pada operator untuk insisi kulit sampai fasia.
Where this word comes from

From Dutch mes (“blade”), from Middle Dutch mets, mes, contraction of *metses, from Old Dutch *metisas, *metsas, from Proto-West Germanic *matisahs (“food knife”). Cognate of Japanese メス (mesu, “medical knife”) and Korean 메스 (meseu, “medical knife”).

noun[ˈmɛs]
  1. artificial fertilizer

    colloquial
Where this word comes from

From Dutch mest (“manure”), from Middle Dutch mest, from Old Dutch *mist, from Proto-Germanic *mihstuz. Semantic loan from Dutch kunstmest (“artificial fertilizer”).

noun[ˈmɛs]
  1. mesh: a structure made of connected strands of metal, fiber, or other flexible/ductile material, with evenly spaced openings between them

  2. mesh: the opening or space enclosed by the threads of a net between knot and knot, or the threads enclosing such a space

Where this word comes from

From English mesh, from Middle English mesche, from Old English masc (“net”) (perhaps influenced in form by related Old English mæscre (“mesh, spot”)) both from Proto-Germanic *maskrǭ, *maskwǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *mezg- (“to knit, twist, plait”).

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