mesh
verb/meʃ/
/meʃ/
(formal)Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they mesh | /meʃ/ /meʃ/ |
| he / she / it meshes | /ˈmeʃɪz/ /ˈmeʃɪz/ |
| past simple meshed | /meʃt/ /meʃt/ |
| past participle meshed | /meʃt/ /meʃt/ |
| -ing form meshing | /ˈmeʃɪŋ/ /ˈmeʃɪŋ/ |
- [intransitive, transitive] to fit together or match closely, especially in a way that works well; to make things fit together successfully
- mesh (something) (with something) This evidence meshes with earlier reports of an organized riot.
- mesh (something) (together) His theories mesh together various political and religious beliefs.
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- [intransitive] (specialist) (of parts of a machine) to fit together as they move
- If the cogs don't mesh correctly, the gears will keep slipping.
Word Originlate Middle English: probably from an unrecorded Old English word related to (and perhaps reinforced in Middle English by) Middle Dutch maesche, of Germanic origin.
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