Chaos vs. Mess — What's the Difference?

Complete disorder and confusion

The mess (also called a mess deck aboard ships) is an area where military personnel socialize, eat, and (in some cases) live. The term is also used to indicate the groups of military personnel who belong to separate messes, such as the Officers' mess, the CPOs' mess, and the Enlisted mess.

A condition or place of great disorder or confusion.

A cluttered, untidy, usually dirty place or condition

A disorderly mass; a jumble

Something that is disorderly or dirty, as a accumulation or heap

Often Chaos The disordered state of unformed matter and infinite space supposed in some cosmogonic views to have existed before the ordered universe.

A confused, troubling, or embarrassing condition or situation

Chaos theory.

One that is in such a condition

(Mathematics) A dynamical system that has a sensitive dependence on its initial conditions.

An amount of food, as for a meal, course, or dish

(Obsolete) An abyss; a chasm.

A serving of soft, semiliquid food

The unordered state of matter in classical accounts of cosmogony.

A group of people, usually soldiers or sailors, who regularly eat meals together.

Any state of disorder; a confused or amorphous mixture or conglomeration.

Food or a meal served to such a group

(mathematics) A behaviour of iterative non-linear systems in which arbitrarily small variations in initial conditions become magnified over time.

A mess hall.

(fantasy) One of the two metaphysical forces of the world in some fantasy settings, as opposed to law.

To make disorderly or dirty

(obsolete) A vast chasm or abyss.

To cause or make a mess.

A given medium; a space in which something exists or lives; an environment.

To intrude; interfere

An empty, immeasurable space; a yawning chasm.

To take a meal in a military mess.

The confused, unorganized condition or mass of matter before the creation of distinct and orderly forms.

A disagreeable mixture or confusion of things; hence, a situation resulting from blundering or from misunderstanding.

Any confused or disordered collection or state of things; a confused mixture; confusion; disorder.

(colloquial) A large quantity or number.

A state of extreme confusion and disorder

(euphemistic) Excrement.

The formless and disordered state of matter before the creation of the cosmos

(figuratively) A person in a state of (especially emotional) turmoil or disarray; an emotional wreck.

(Greek mythology) the most ancient of gods; the personification of the infinity of space preceding creation of the universe

(obsolete) Mass; a church service.

(physics) a dynamical system that is extremely sensitive to its initial conditions

(archaic) A quantity of food set on a table at one time; provision of food for a person or party for one meal; also, the food given to an animal at one time.

(collective) A number of persons who eat together, and for whom food is prepared in common, especially military personnel who eat at the same table.

A building or room in which mess is eaten.

A set of four from the old practice of dividing companies into sets of four at dinner.

(US) The milk given by a cow at one milking.

(collective) A group of iguanas.

(cooking) A dessert of fruit and cream, similar to a fool.

(transitive, often used with "up") To make untidy or dirty.

To make soiled by defecating.

To make soiled by ejaculating.

(transitive, often used with "up") To throw into disorder or to ruin.

(intransitive) To interfere.

(used with "with") To screw around with, to bother, to be annoying to.

(intransitive) To take meals with a mess.

(intransitive) To belong to a mess.

(intransitive) To eat (with others).

(transitive) To supply with a mess.

Mass; church service.

A quantity of food set on a table at one time; provision of food for a person or party for one meal; as, a mess of pottage; also, the food given to a beast at one time.

A number of persons who eat together, and for whom food is prepared in common; especially, persons in the military or naval service who eat at the same table; as, the wardroom mess.

A set of four; - from the old practice of dividing companies into sets of four at dinner.

The milk given by a cow at one milking.

A disagreeable mixture or confusion of things; hence, a situation resulting from blundering or from misunderstanding; as, he made a mess of it.

To take meals with a mess; to belong to a mess; to eat (with others); as, I mess with the wardroom officers.

To supply with a mess.

To make a mess{5} of; to disorder or muddle; to muss; to jumble; to disturb; to mess up.

A state of confusion and disorderliness;

Informal terms for a difficult situation;

Soft semiliquid food;

A meal eaten by service personnel

A (large) military dining room where service personnel eat or relax

(often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent;

Eat in a mess hall

Make a mess of or create disorder in;