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Lunch vs. Mess — What's the Difference?

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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