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Mess vs. Mash — What's the Difference?

Mess vs. Mash — What's the Difference?

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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.

Mash

A mixture of malt or other ingredients with water, heated to convert starches into fermentable sugars for use in brewing or distilling.

Mess

A cluttered, untidy, usually dirty place or condition
The kitchen was a mess.

Mash

A mixture of ground grain and nutrients fed to livestock and fowl.

Mess

Something that is disorderly or dirty, as a accumulation or heap
Who left the mess on the kitchen floor?.
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Mash

A soft pulpy mixture or mass.

Mess

A confused, troubling, or embarrassing condition or situation
With divorce and bankruptcy proceedings pending, his personal life was in a mess.

Mash

Chiefly British Mashed potatoes.

Mess

One that is in such a condition
They made a mess of their marriage. Her boyfriend is a real mess.

Mash

A crushing or grinding.

Mess

An amount of food, as for a meal, course, or dish
Cooked up a mess of fish.

Mash

(Slang) An infatuation or act of flirtation.

Mess

A serving of soft, semiliquid food
A mess of porridge.

Mash

To convert (malt or grain) into mash.

Mess

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

Mash

To convert into a soft pulpy mass by pounding or crushing
Mash potatoes.

Mess

Food or a meal served to such a group
Took mess with the enlistees.

Mash

Chiefly Southern & South Midland US To apply pressure to; press.

Mess

A mess hall.

Mash

(Slang) To flirt with or make sexual advances to.

Mess

To make disorderly or dirty
The wind has messed your hair. The puppy messed the floor.

Mash

(uncountable) A mass of mixed ingredients reduced to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure; a mass of anything in a soft pulpy state.

Mess

To cause or make a mess.

Mash

(brewing) Ground or bruised malt, or meal of rye, wheat, corn, or other grain (or a mixture of malt and meal) steeped and stirred in hot water for making the wort.

Mess

To intrude; interfere
Messing in the neighbors' affairs.

Mash

(mostly UK) Mashed potatoes.

Mess

To take a meal in a military mess.

Mash

A mixture of meal or bran and water fed to animals.

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.

Mash

(obsolete) A mess; trouble.

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.

Mash

(obsolete) A mesh.

Mess

(euphemistic) Excrement.
There was dog mess all along the street.
Parked under a tree, my car was soon covered in birds' mess.

Mash

(obsolete) An infatuation, a crush, a fancy.

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.

Mash

(obsolete) A dandy, a masher.

Mess

(obsolete) Mass; a church service.

Mash

(obsolete) The object of one’s affections regardless of sex.

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.

Mash

A gun.

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

Mash

(transitive) To convert into a mash; to reduce to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure
We had fun mashing apples in a mill.
The potatoes need to be mashed.

Mess

A building or room in which mess is eaten.

Mash

(transitive) In brewing, to convert (for example malt, or malt and meal) into the mash which makes wort.

Mess

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

Mash

(ambitransitive) To press down hard (on).
To mash on a bicycle pedal

Mess

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

Mash

To press. en

Mess

(collective) A group of iguanas.

Mash

To prepare a cup of tea in a teapot; to brew (tea).

Mess

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

Mash

To act violently.

Mess

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

Mash

To press (a button) rapidly and repeatedly.

Mess

To make soiled by defecating.

Mash

To flirt, to make eyes, to make romantic advances.

Mess

To make soiled by ejaculating.

Mash

An abbreviation for Mobile Army Surgical Hospital, consisting of the equipment and personnel required to perform emergency operations on injured soldiers, located in tents near the front lines of combat; as, he worked in the 25th MASH.

Mess

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

Mash

A mesh.

Mess

(intransitive) To interfere.
This doesn't concern you. Don't mess.

Mash

A mass of mixed ingredients reduced to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure; a mass of anything in a soft pulpy state. Specifically (Brewing), ground or bruised malt, or meal of rye, wheat, corn, or other grain (or a mixture of malt and meal) steeped and stirred in hot water for making the wort.

Mess

(used with "with") To screw around with, to bother, to be annoying to.
Stop messing with me!

Mash

A mixture of meal or bran and water fed to animals.

Mess

(intransitive) To take meals with a mess.

Mash

A mess; trouble.

Mess

(intransitive) To belong to a mess.

Mash

To convert into a mash; to reduce to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure; to bruise; to crush; as, to mash apples in a mill, or potatoes with a pestle.

Mess

(intransitive) To eat (with others).
I mess with the wardroom officers.

Mash

A mixture of mashed malt grains and hot water; used in brewing

Mess

(transitive) To supply with a mess.

Mash

Mixture of ground animal feeds

Mess

Mass; church service.

Mash

To compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition;
Crush an aluminum can
Squeeze a lemon

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.

Mash

Talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions;
The guys always try to chat up the new secretaries
My husband never flirts with other women

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.

Mash

Reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading;
Grind the spices in a mortar
Mash the garlic

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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