![]() ![]() Verb Perhaps sheer momentum and incumbency will preserve Twitter’s status as the de facto public forum no matter how much its owner messes it up. Collin Morgan, Car and Driver, 15 July 2023 Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 July 2023 High-power vacuums also excel in wet suction, slurping up liquid and mucky messes much better than a low-power vac. Saahil Desai, The Atlantic, 17 July 2023 That show is a wretched, tawdry mess that never should have made it onto HBO’s schedule. Creg Stephenson | al, 17 July 2023 Out came a terrible mess of syllables that would never fool me. Sorapuru,, 18 July 2023 Hugh Freeze, Auburn Freeze inherited a mess on the Plains and has transformed his roster through an aggressive use of the transfer portal. Lorraine Wilde, Treehugger, 18 July 2023 Step back, declutter The hardest mess to recognize is usually your own, which is why Cape Cod landscape architect Bernice Wahler recommends looking at your house from the street for a different vantage point. Molly Taft, The New Republic, 21 July 2023 Some parents swish the diaper in the toilet or use a sprayer attached to the toilet water supply to spray off the mess. Lucas Trevor, Washington Post, 25 July 2023 In the real world, it’s gotten us into a catastrophic mess. As a style of furniture, said to be imitative of furniture in the buildings of original Spanish missions to western North America, it is attested from 1900.Noun What should have been a light summer romp is rarely funny, never scary and a boring mess. Meaning "dispatch of an aircraft on a military operation" (by 1929, American English) was extended to spacecraft flights (1962), hence, mission control "team on the ground responsible for directing a spacecraft and its crew" (1964). General sense of "that for which one is sent or commissioned" is from 1670s meaning "that for which a person or thing is destined" (as in man on a mission, one's mission in life) is by 1805. The diplomatic sense of "body of persons sent to a foreign land on commercial or political business" is from 1620s in American English, sometimes "a foreign legation or embassy, the office of a foreign envoy" (1805). Meaning "an organized effort for the spread of religion or for enlightenment of a community" is by 1640s that of "a missionary post or station" is by 1769. Mess-locker "a small locker on shipboard for holding mess-gear" is by 1829.ġ590s, "a sending abroad" (as an agent), originally of Jesuits, from Latin missionem (nominative missio) "act of sending, a dispatching a release, a setting at liberty discharge from service, dismissal," noun of action from past-participle stem of mittere "to release, let go send, throw," which de Vaan traces to a PIE *m(e)ith- "to exchange, remove," also source of Sanskrit methete, mimetha "to become hostile, quarrel," Gothic in-maidjan "to change " he writes, "From original 'exchange', the meaning developed to 'give, bestow'. Mess-kit "the cooking- and table-utensils of a camp, with the chest in which they are kept" is by 1829. Mess-hall "area where military personnel eat and socialize" is by 1832. Meaning "excrement" (of animals) is from 1903. ![]() General use for "a quantity" of anything is attested by 1830. The sense of "mixed food," especially "mixed food for animals" (1738), probably is what led to the contemptuous colloquial use of mess for "a jumble, a mixed mass" (1828) and the figurative sense of "state of confusion, a situation of disorder" (1834), as well as "condition of untidiness" (1851). Meaning "a communal eating place" (especially a military one) is attested by 1530s, from the earlier sense of "a company of persons eating together at the same table" (early 15c.), originally a group of four. For sense evolution, compare early Middle English sonde "a serving of food or drink a meal or course of a meal," from Old English sond, sand, literally "a sending," the noun form of send (v.). 1300, "a supply or provision of food for one meal," from Old French mes "portion of food, course at dinner," from Late Latin missus "course at dinner," literally "a placing, a putting (on a table, etc.)," from past participle of mittere "to put, place," in classical Latin "to send, let go" (see mission). ![]()
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