Lunch vs. Mess — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Lunch and Mess
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Lunch
Lunch, an abbreviation for luncheon, is a meal eaten around midday. During the 20th century, the meaning gradually narrowed to a meal eaten midday.
Mess
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.
Lunch
A meal eaten at midday.
Mess
A cluttered, untidy, usually dirty place or condition
The kitchen was a mess.
Lunch
The food provided for a midday meal.
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Mess
Something that is disorderly or dirty, as a accumulation or heap
Who left the mess on the kitchen floor?.
Lunch
To eat a midday meal.
Mess
A confused, troubling, or embarrassing condition or situation
With divorce and bankruptcy proceedings pending, his personal life was in a mess.
Lunch
A light meal usually eaten around midday, notably when not as main meal of the day.
Mess
One that is in such a condition
They made a mess of their marriage. Her boyfriend is a real mess.
Lunch
(cricket) A break in play between the first and second sessions.
Mess
An amount of food, as for a meal, course, or dish
Cooked up a mess of fish.
Lunch
Any small meal, especially one eaten at a social gathering.
After the funeral there was a lunch for those who didn't go to the cemetery.
Mess
A serving of soft, semiliquid food
A mess of porridge.
Lunch
(intransitive) To eat lunch.
I like to lunch in Italian restaurants.
Mess
A group of people, usually soldiers or sailors, who regularly eat meals together.
Lunch
(transitive) To treat to lunch.
Mess
Food or a meal served to such a group
Took mess with the enlistees.
Lunch
A luncheon; specifically, a light repast between breakfast and dinner, most commonly about noontime.
Mess
A mess hall.
Lunch
To take luncheon.
Mess
To make disorderly or dirty
The wind has messed your hair. The puppy messed the floor.
Lunch
A midday meal
Mess
To cause or make a mess.
Lunch
Take the midday meal;
At what time are you lunching?
Mess
To intrude; interfere
Messing in the neighbors' affairs.
Lunch
Provide a midday meal for;
She lunched us well
Mess
To take a meal in a military mess.
Mess
A disagreeable mixture or confusion of things; hence, a situation resulting from blundering or from misunderstanding.
He made a mess of it.
My bedroom is such a mess; I need to tidy up.
Mess
(colloquial) A large quantity or number.
My boss dumped a whole mess of projects on my desk today.
She brought back a mess of fish to fix for supper.
Mess
(euphemistic) Excrement.
There was dog mess all along the street.
Parked under a tree, my car was soon covered in birds' mess.
Mess
(figuratively) A person in a state of (especially emotional) turmoil or disarray; an emotional wreck.
Between the pain and the depression, I'm a mess.
He's been a mess and a half ever since you excommunicated him.
Mess
(obsolete) Mass; a church service.
Mess
(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.
Mess
(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.
The wardroom mess
Mess
A building or room in which mess is eaten.
Mess
A set of four from the old practice of dividing companies into sets of four at dinner.
Mess
(US) The milk given by a cow at one milking.
Mess
(collective) A group of iguanas.
Mess
(cooking) A dessert of fruit and cream, similar to a fool.
Mess
(transitive, often used with "up") To make untidy or dirty.
Mess
To make soiled by defecating.
Mess
To make soiled by ejaculating.
Mess
(transitive, often used with "up") To throw into disorder or to ruin.
Mess
(intransitive) To interfere.
This doesn't concern you. Don't mess.
Mess
(used with "with") To screw around with, to bother, to be annoying to.
Stop messing with me!
Mess
(intransitive) To take meals with a mess.
Mess
(intransitive) To belong to a mess.
Mess
(intransitive) To eat (with others).
I mess with the wardroom officers.
Mess
(transitive) To supply with a mess.
Mess
Mass; church service.
Mess
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.
At their savory dinner setOf herbs and other country messes.
Mess
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.
Mess
A set of four; - from the old practice of dividing companies into sets of four at dinner.
Mess
The milk given by a cow at one milking.
Mess
A disagreeable mixture or confusion of things; hence, a situation resulting from blundering or from misunderstanding; as, he made a mess of it.
Mess
To take meals with a mess; to belong to a mess; to eat (with others); as, I mess with the wardroom officers.
Mess
To supply with a mess.
Mess
To make a mess{5} of; to disorder or muddle; to muss; to jumble; to disturb; to mess up.
It was n't right either to be messing another man's sleep.
Mess
A state of confusion and disorderliness;
The house was a mess
She smoothed the mussiness of the bed
Mess
Informal terms for a difficult situation;
He got into a terrible fix
He made a muddle of his marriage
Mess
Soft semiliquid food;
A mess of porridge
Mess
A meal eaten by service personnel
Mess
A (large) military dining room where service personnel eat or relax
Mess
(often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent;
A batch of letters
A deal of trouble
A lot of money
He made a mint on the stock market
It must have cost plenty
Mess
Eat in a mess hall
Mess
Make a mess of or create disorder in;
He messed up his room
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