(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."
Milk
Definition:
(n.) A white fluid secreted by the mammary glands of female mammals for the nourishment of their young, consisting of minute globules of fat suspended in a solution of casein, albumin, milk sugar, and inorganic salts.
(n.) A kind of juice or sap, usually white in color, found in certain plants; latex. See Latex.
(n.) An emulsion made by bruising seeds; as, the milk of almonds, produced by pounding almonds with sugar and water.
(n.) The ripe, undischarged spat of an oyster.
(v. t.) To draw or press milk from the breasts or udder of, by the hand or mouth; to withdraw the milk of.
(v. t.) To draw from the breasts or udder; to extract, as milk; as, to milk wholesome milk from healthy cows.
(v. t.) To draw anything from, as if by milking; to compel to yield profit or advantage; to plunder.
(v. i.) To draw or to yield milk.
Example Sentences:
(1) The absolute recoveries of diazepam, nordazepam and flurazepam in human milk were 84, 86 and 92% and in human plasma 97, 89 and 94%, respectively.
(2) Increased plasmin activity was associated with advancing stage of lactation and older cows after appropriate adjustments were made for the effects of milk yield and SCC.
(3) Phenotypic relationships were examined between final score and 13 type appraisal traits and first lactation milk yield from 2935 Ayrshire, 3154 Brown Swiss, 13,110 Guernsey, 50,422 Jersey, and 924 Milking Shorthorn records.
(4) Four patients with acute brucellosis are described, none of whom had any connexion with farming or milk industry, the source of infection being different in each case.
(5) Milk yield and litter weights were similar but backfat thickness (BF) was greater in 22 C sows (P less than .05) compared to 30 C sows.
(6) In contrast, human breast milk contained substantially increased levels of immunoreactive PTHrP.
(7) Abruptly changing cows from one feeding system to another did not influence milk yield, milk composition, or body weight gain.
(8) When labelled long-chain fatty acids or glycerol were infused into the lactating goat, there was extensive transfer of radioactivity into milk in spite of the absence of net uptake of substrate by the mammary gland.
(9) The presence of BLG in human milk is a common finding in both atopic and non-atopic mothers.
(10) The overall result of this system has been to decrease the coefficients of variation to below 5% for all the milk and serum proteins tested.
(11) The relative effect of the intramammary infections and of different factors related to the cow (parity, stage of lactation, milk yield) on the individual cell counts, were studied for 30 months on the 62 black-and-white Holstein cows of an experimental herd.
(12) Leukocytes were isolated by centrifugation from milk collected at postinjection hour 16.
(13) Postpartum milk samples from 61 heifers and 24 tissues from 2 reactor cattle were culture-negative for B abortus.
(14) The fact that proteolytic activity could be detected within 2 days at 7 degrees C is significant, since bulk cooled milk is normally held for 3 to 4 days at temperatures between 4 and 7 degrees C at farms or factories prior to processing.
(15) Aldi, Lidl and Morrisons are to raise the price they pay their suppliers for milk, bowing to growing pressure from dairy farmers who say the industry is in crisis.
(16) Increasing dietary protein percent raised milk protein percent but not protein yield or yield of other milk components, milk yield, SCM yield, or DM intake.
(17) It was also established that the Y. enterocolitica strains isolated from raw cow milk did not refer to the European serotypes 0:3 and 0:9 that were pathogenic for humans.
(18) The major lipase in human milk is dependent on bile salts for activity and probably participates in intestinal digestion of milk lipids in the newborn.
(19) Calves were fed milk replacer twice daily while housed indoors in wooden-slatted floor box crates (metabolism cages).
(20) During a single reversal trial of two 2-wk experimental periods, teats of all glands of 12 Holstein cows were subjected to a milking routine conducive to large vacuum fluctuations and flooded teat cups.