What's the difference between amess and mess?

Amess


Definition:

  • (n.) Amice, a hood or cape. See 2d Amice.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A Conservative MP, David Amess, who is also a member of the British parliamentary committee for Iran freedom, this month described the MEK as "oppressed" and "wrongly labelled as terrorist".
  • (2) Elsewhere in the New Year honours list , a knighthood went to David Amess, a backbench Conservative MP since 1983, and a damehood was given to Anne McGuire, a Labour former minister who has represented Stirling since 1997.
  • (3) (East Somerton, Norfolk) David Anthony Andrew Amess, MP.
  • (4) Benefits of a less indulgent nature are offered to the parliamentary slimming group, whose members include Ed Vaizey and David Amess: they are entitled to receive free Slimming World membership, worth £290 a year.
  • (5) In a response to a question from Tory backbencher David Amess about whether his 100-year-old mother could expect to live to see the report as well as the EU referendum, the Cameron said: “I think I can reassure Maud that this summer she’ll have I think a double opportunity to deal with these things, a referendum on 23 June, and I’m sure the Chilcot report will come not too much longer after that.” Downing Street sources later confirmed that July was the most likely timing for the publication.
  • (6) October 15, 2013 Tamara Cohen (@tamcohen) David Amess MP tells hustings for dep speaker 'I deplore pomposity and arrogance'.
  • (7) The last question went to David Amess, a Tory backbencher who never fails to ignore the big issues.
  • (8) October 15, 2013 Rowena Mason (@rowenamason) Henry Bellingham says he could help put small stain on family reputation right (his ancestor shot former PM in 1812) #deputyspeakerhustings October 15, 2013 Rowena Mason (@rowenamason) David Amess says he deplores bullying, humiliation + pomposity.
  • (9) Topping the chart is veteran Conservative Peter Bottomley, who is a member of 151 groups; 65 more than fellow Tory David Amess, who is second with 86 memberships.
  • (10) Adrian Sanders MP Alex Cunningham MP Bob Russell MP David Amess MP John Hemming MP Dr. John Pugh MP Mike Hancock MP Paul Flynn MP Lord Nicolas Rea Baroness Cox of Queensbury Deputy speaker, House of Lords, 1986-2005 Baroness King of Bow Founding chair, APPG on the Great Lakes Lord Hannay of Chiswick UK ambassador to the UN, 1990-1995 Lord Alton of Liverpool Patron, Save the Congo Lord Brooke of Sutton Mandeville Chairman, Conservative party, 1987-89 Lord Joffe of Liddington Lawyer for the 1963-64 Rivonia trial, representing Nelson Mandela Lord Anderson of Swansea Co-founder, Association of European Parliamentarians with Africa
  • (11) The website working4anMP currently lists unpaid intern vacancies with the Conservative MPs Aidan Burley, David Davis, David Amess, Mark Menzies and Dominic Raab, and the West Thurrock constituency Conservative party.
  • (12) At the time, David Amess, a Conservative MP, said it would be a bad idea for a bill allowing Whitehall to share information on people who were in debt to public bodies.
  • (13) Tory MP, David Amess, who chairs the APPHG, said: "The launch of today's inquiry report is a wake-up call for the nation.

Mess


Definition:

  • (n.) Mass; church service.
  • (n.) A quantity of food set on a table at one time; provision of food for a person or party for one meal; as, a mess of pottage; also, the food given to a beast at one time.
  • (n.) 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; as, the wardroom mess.
  • (n.) A set of four; -- from the old practice of dividing companies into sets of four at dinner.
  • (n.) The milk given by a cow at one milking.
  • (n.) A disagreeable mixture or confusion of things; hence, a situation resulting from blundering or from misunderstanding; as, he made a mess of it.
  • (v. i.) To take meals with a mess; to belong to a mess; to eat (with others); as, I mess with the wardroom officers.
  • (v. t.) To supply with a mess.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) They were preceded by the publication of The Success and Failure of Picasso (1965) and Art and Revolution: Ernst Neizvestny and the Role of the Artist in the USSR (1969); in one, he made a hopeless mess of Picasso’s later career, though he was not alone in this; in the other, he elevated a brave dissident artist beyond his talents.
  • (2) And that's why I was the first G20 finance minister to introduce a permanent tax on banks – because it's fair that they help clear up the mess they did so much to create.
  • (3) We need to stop making excuses for them: But it is up to the state to close the loopholes Yes, the state must work continually to tighten and simplify the tax regime, which is a deliberate mess keeping an entire industry of accounting firms and tax lawyers fed.
  • (4) Of course, amid this mess some free schools are doing marvellously.
  • (5) The first UK comedy show I ever performed was a total mess.
  • (6) The local inanimate environment, including mess hut, sleeping huts and sleeping bags used on expeditions, was searched for contamination by S. aureus but none was detected.
  • (7) Some say Film Socialism is an eccentric masterpiece ; others that it's an eccentric mess.
  • (8) They had a good threat up top with the two lads up front, who messed us around all day long to be honest.
  • (9) Clubs got into a mess partly because rich people, who knew nothing about football, put money in - and they got ripped off."
  • (10) "Sorry to leave it in such a mess, old cock", was the parting shot from the Conservative chancellor.
  • (11) My weight went down and my house was a bit of a mess.
  • (12) Friends describe him, kindly, as a mess: invariably tieless, usually unshaven and "sweaty, because he always goes round on his bike".
  • (13) It had promised its national deficit would drop from 9.5% of GDP to 6%, but turned in an 8.5% deficit that made it the laughing stock of austerity Europe – and left Rajoy's new government having to clean up the mess, which also includes 24% unemployment and a recession that will shrink the economy by 1.7%.
  • (14) But it's not OK to mess up a movie, it's not OK to do that just so you can improve as an actor.
  • (15) And to put us in a situation where we are only ‘patriotic’ and only ‘heard’ if we actively take it upon ourselves to fight ‘terrorism’, as if we are responsible for these horrible acts, or by sending us to wars killing other Muslims, is also a problematic discourse.” While on guard near the Iraqi city of Baqubah in 2004, the 27-year-old Humayun Khan ran towards a suicide bomb vehicle that was headed in the direction of a mess hall where hundreds of servicemen were eating.
  • (16) But they just didn’t know how to manage the situation.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Children and adults in the mess at the detention centre Police would book an appointment to interview a child about a serious allegation then fail to show up, Rose said.
  • (17) Their expertise led to this mess, and would be a hindrance, not a help, in cleaning it up.
  • (18) What a complete mess - a miscued shot, scuffed clearance, and uncontrolled toe-punt as he fell - but a decisive mess all the same."
  • (19) But Hancock said: "Their fiscal policy is in a mess.
  • (20) "The only answer to the mess we are in is social uprising and the end of all these barbaric measures."

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