Mess vs Fare - What's the difference?
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(obsolete) Mass; church service.
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.
* Milton
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.
* 1610 , , IV. iv. 11:
A set of four (from the old practice of dividing companies into sets of four at dinner).
(US) The milk given by a cow at one milking.
(label) To take meals with a mess.
(label) To belong to a mess.
(label) To eat (with others).
(label) To supply with a mess.
A disagreeable mixture or confusion of things; hence, a situation resulting from blundering or from misunderstanding; a disorder.
(label) A large quantity or number.
(label) Excrement.
(label) To make a mess of.
(label) To throw into confusion.
(label) To interfere.
(label) a going; journey; travel; voyage; course; passage
Money paid for a transport ticket.
A paying passenger, especially in a taxi.
Food and drink.
* , chapter=16
, title= Supplies for consumption or pleasure.
(UK, crime, slang) A prostitute's client.
(archaic) To go, travel.
To get along, succeed (well or badly); to be in any state, or pass through any experience, good or bad; to be attended with any circumstances or train of events.
* Denham
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, title= To eat, dine.
* Bible, Luke xvi. 19
(impersonal) To happen well, or ill.
* Milton
Mess is a related term of fare.
As verbs the difference between mess and fare
is that mess is (label) to take meals with a mess or mess can be (label) to make a mess of while fare is .As a noun mess
is (obsolete) mass; church service or mess can be a disagreeable mixture or confusion of things; hence, a situation resulting from blundering or from misunderstanding; a disorder.mess
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), partly from (etyl) . More at (m); see also (m).Noun
(es)- A mess of pottage.
- At their savoury dinner set / Of herbs and other country messes .
- the wardroom mess
- But that our feasts / In every mess have folly, and the feeders / Digest it with accustom,
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Derived terms
* Eton mess * lose the number of one's mess * mess hall * mess up * Mills MessExternal links
*Verb
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*Etymology 2
Perhaps a corruption of (etyl) , compare (muss), or derived from Etymology 1 "mixed foods, as for animals".Noun
(-)Quotations
* (English Citations of "mess")Synonyms
* see alsoVerb
(es)Derived terms
(terms derived from "mess") * messy * mess around * mess up * mess withExternal links
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English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) fare, from the merger of (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=“[…] She takes the whole thing with desperate seriousness. But the others are all easy and jovial—thinking about the good fare that is soon to be eaten, about the hired fly, about anything.”}}
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*Etymology 2
From (etyl) .Verb
- So fares the stag among the enraged hounds.
Ian Sample
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- There was a certain rich man which fared sumptuously every day.
- We shall see how it will fare with him.
- So fares it when with truth falsehood contends.