<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>any knit, woven, or knotted fabric of open texture.</li><li>an interwoven or intertwined structure; network.</li><li>Synonyms: grid, screen, grill, netting, web.</li><li>any arrangement of interlocking metal links or wires with evenly spaced, uniform small openings between, as used in jewelry or sieves.</li><li>one of the open spaces between the cords or ropes of a net.</li><li>meshes, the threads that bind such spaces.</li><li>the means of catching or holding fast: to be caught in the meshes of the law.</li><li>Machinery: the engagement of gear teeth.</li><li>Electricity: a set of branches that forms a closed path in a network so that removal of a branch results in an open path.</li><li>Metallurgy: a designation of a given fineness of powder used in powder metallurgy in terms of the number of the finest screen through which almost all the particles will pass: This powder is 200 mesh.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>(used with object) to catch or entangle in or as if in a net; enmesh.</li><li>to form with meshes, as a net.</li><li>Machinery: to engage, as gear teeth.</li><li>to cause to match, coordinate, or interlock: They tried to mesh their vacation plans.</li><li>(used without object) to become enmeshed.</li><li>Machinery: to become or be engaged, as the teeth of one gear with those of another.</li><li>to match, coordinate, or interlock: The two versions of the story don't mesh.</li></ul>