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  • 121mess — (mès ) s. m. Mot anglais dont on se sert quelquefois aujourd hui chez nous pour désigner une table d officiers qui dînent ensemble. Le mess des officiers de tel régiment. ÉTYMOLOGIE    Angl. mess, réunion d individus qui mangent ensemble,… …

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  • 122mess — noun 1) please clear up the mess Syn: untidiness, disorder, disarray, clutter, shambles, jumble, muddle, chaos 2) don t step in the dog mess Syn: excrement, muck, feces, excreta …

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  • 123mess — 1. noun /mɛs/ a) 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 a beast at one time. A mess of pottage. b) A number of persons who eat together, and for whom food is… …

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  • 124mess — Synonyms and related words: C ration, Chinese puzzle, Gordian knot, K ration, Rube Goldberg contraption, all sorts, allotment, allowance, amount, arsy varsiness, assemblage, assortment, baboon, bad job, bag, batch, befoul, befuddlement, benasty,… …

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  • 125mess around — (in BRIT, also use mess about) 1) PHRASAL VERB If you mess around or mess about, you spend time doing things without any particular purpose or without achieving anything. [V P] We were just messing around playing with paint... [V P] Stop messing… …

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  • 126mess jacket — noun waist length jacket tapering to a point at the back; worn by officers in the mess for formal dinners • Syn: ↑monkey jacket, ↑shell jacket • Hypernyms: ↑jacket * * * noun : a man s semiformal tailless jacket for social or service wear,… …

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  • 127mess of pottage — noun anything of trivial value Esau sold his birthright to Jacob for a mess of pottage • Hypernyms: ↑value, ↑economic value * * * Etymology: Middle English mes of potage; from allusion to Esau s selling of his birthright to his twin brother Jacob …

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  • 128Mess- und Regeltechnik — Die Regelungstechnik ist ein Gebiet der Ingenieurwissenschaft und Teilgebiet der Automatisierungstechnik. Sie befasst sich mit der gezielten Beeinflussung von physikalischen, chemischen, biologischen oder anderen Größen in Geräten, Anlagen,… …

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