mesh

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A material made of connected threads, wire, or rope with small evenly spaced holes.

   The window was covered with a fine wire mesh to keep insects out.

2. 2
   verb

   To fit or work together well.

   The music meshed perfectly with the images on the screen.

3. 3
   noun

   The way parts fit together by interlocking, as with gears.

   The gears moved smoothly once they were in proper mesh.

From Middle English mesche, from Old English masc (“net”) (perhaps influenced in form by related Old English mæscre (“mesh, spot”)), from the related Proto-Germanic *maskwǭ and *maskrǭ respectively, from Proto-Indo-European *mezg- (“to knit, twist, plait”). Akin to Old High German māsca (“mesh”), Old Saxon maska (“net”), Old Norse mǫskvi, mǫskun (“mesh”).

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