What is the difference between mess and trash?

In context|us|lang=en terms the difference between mess and trash

is that mess is (us) the milk given by a cow at one milking while trash is (us) to disrespect someone or something.

As nouns the difference between mess and trash

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 trash is useless things to be discarded.

As verbs the difference between mess and trash

is that mess is to take meals with a mess while trash is (us) to discard.

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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trash

English

Noun

(-)

(chiefly, US) Useless things to be discarded; rubbish; refuse.

* Landor

A haunch of venison would be trash to a Brahmin.

A container into which things are discarded.

Something worthless or of poor quality.

(slang, derogatory) People of low social status or class.

(computing) Temporary storage on disk for files that the user has deleted, allowing them to be recovered if necessary.

A collar, leash, or halter used to restrain a dog in pursuing game.

(Markham)

Synonyms

* garbage (1-3), junk (1,3), refuse (1), rubbish, waste * (container) trash can * See also

Derived terms

* trailer trash * trash bag * trash can * trashed * trashery * trash fish * trashman * trashmover * trashy * white trash

Verb

(es)

(US) To discard.

* 1989 , InfoWorld (18 December 1989, page 66)

Fatcat also fails to warn you that unformatting will trash any files copied to the unintentionally formatted disk.

(US) To make into a mess.

The burglars trashed the house.

(US) To beat soundly in a game.

(US) To disrespect someone or something

To free from trash, or worthless matter; hence, to lop; to crop.

to trash the rattoons of sugar cane

To treat as trash, or worthless matter; hence, to spurn, humiliate, or crush.

To hold back by a trash or leash, as a dog in pursuing game; hence, to retard, encumber, or restrain; to clog; to hinder vexatiously.

(Beaumont and Fletcher)

Synonyms

* See also

Derived terms

* trash out

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