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Mensch vs Mesh - What's the difference?

mensch | mesh |

As nouns the difference between mensch and mesh

is that mensch is (l), (l), (l) while mesh is a structure made of connected strands of metal, fiber, or other flexible/ductile material, with evenly spaced openings between them.

As a verb mesh is

to fit in, to come together.

mensch

English

(wikipedia mensch)

Alternative forms

* mentsch * mentsh * mentch

Noun

(en-noun)
  • A person (chiefly male) of strength, integrity and honor or compassion.
  • * {{quote-video, year=1960, title=
  • , passage=Doctor Dreyfuss [to C. C. Baxter] : Be a mensch !}}
  • * {{quote-book, year=2005, author=, publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing, page=428
  • , passage=Lionel Kessler, relaxing perhaps on a Louis Quinze day bed, garlanded all round with lines of beauty, seeing welcome proof that his clever maligned young friend was a mensch .}}
  • * {{quote-news, year=2008, date=December 28, author=George Solomon, title=My Little Red Book, work=The Washington Post, page=D01
  • , passage=Olie Kolzig: Goalie for the Washington Capitals who spent most of 16 seasons between the pipes for the team until being released in 2008. Had the longest career of any Capital. Now plays for Tampa Bay. The ultimate mensch , in my book.}}
  • * 2008 , Dwight S. Huggins, Into the Greenhouse Vol. VI: Dreams (ISBN 1467050873):
  • She was an Amerindian, and stout. She was a real mensch , a hard working person, who took pride in her job, which was to spray from an aerosol can a particular base.
  • A gentleman.
  • English nouns with irregular plurals ----

    mesh

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia mesh) (es)
  • A structure made of connected strands of metal, fiber, or other flexible/ductile material, with evenly spaced openings between them.
  • * Shakespeare
  • a golden mesh to entrap the hearts of men
  • The opening or space enclosed by the threads of a net between knot and knot, or the threads enclosing such a space.
  • The engagement of the teeth of wheels, or of a wheel and rack.
  • A measure of fineness (particle size) of ground material. A powder that passes through a sieve having 300 openings per linear inch but does not pass 400 openings per linear inch is said to be -300 +400 mesh.
  • (computer graphics) A polygon mesh.
  • Synonyms

    * (space and threads) lattice, network, net

    Derived terms

    * mesh number

    Verb

    (es)
  • To fit in, to come together.
  • The music meshed well with the visuals in that film.
  • To catch in a mesh.
  • (Surrey)

    Anagrams

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