Mess vs Hurry - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between mess and hurry

is that 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 while hurry is rushed action.

As verbs the difference between mess and hurry

is that mess is (label) to take meals with a mess or mess can be (label) to make a mess of while hurry is (label) to do things quickly.

mess

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) (m), partly from (etyl) . More at (m); see also (m).

Noun

(es)

(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.

A mess of pottage.

* Milton

At their savoury dinner set / Of herbs and other country messes .

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.

the wardroom mess

* 1610 , , IV. iv. 11:

But that our feasts / In every mess have folly, and the feeders / Digest it with accustom,

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

(Latimer)

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

Derived terms

* Eton mess * lose the number of one's mess * mess hall * mess up * Mills Mess

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Verb

(label) To take meals with a mess.

(label) To belong to a mess.

(label) To eat (with others).

(label) To supply with a mess.

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Etymology 2

Perhaps a corruption of (etyl) , compare (muss), or derived from Etymology 1 "mixed foods, as for animals".

Noun

(-)

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.

Quotations

* (English Citations of "mess")

Synonyms

* see also

Verb

(es)

(label) To make a mess of.

(label) To throw into confusion.

(label) To interfere.

Derived terms

(terms derived from "mess") * messy * mess around * mess up * mess with

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Anagrams

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hurry

English

Noun

Rushed action.

* '>citation

Urgency.

(sports) In American football, an incidence of a defensive player forcing the quarterback to act faster than the quarterback was prepared to, resulting in a failed offensive play.

Derived terms

* in a hurry

Verb

(en-verb)

(label) To do things quickly.

*:There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy.Stewards, carrying cabin trunks, swarm in the corridors. Passengers wander restlessly about or hurry , with futile energy, from place to place.

*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)

, chapter=19 citation , passage=When Timothy and Julia hurried up the staircase to the bedroom floor, where a considerable commotion was taking place, Tim took Barry Leach with him. He had him gripped firmly by the arm, since he felt it was not safe to let him loose, and he had no immediate idea what to do with him.}}

(label) Often with (up), to speed up the rate of doing something.

(label) To cause to be done quickly.

(label) To hasten; to impel to greater speed; to urge on.

*(Robert South) (1634–1716)

*:Impetuous lust hurries him on.

*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)

*:They hurried him aboard a bark.

(label) To impel to precipitate or thoughtless action; to urge to confused or irregular activity.

*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)

*:And wild amazement hurries up and down / The little number of your doubtful friends.

Synonyms

* See also