Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Meshed material; network.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A network; meshes collectively; a web; a plexus; cancellation.

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  • noun A net; an assembly of meshes.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun an open fabric of string or rope or wire woven together at regular intervals

Etymologies

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mesh +‎ work.

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Examples

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  • People used to think that our mental meshwork, the dense connections formed among the 100 billion or so neurons inside our skulls, was largely fixed by the time we reached adulthood.

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  • He also contributes to Dark Network , a meshwork of paranormal …

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  • I found that I was under the orders of a black villain and caught in a meshwork of crime.

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  • People used to think that our mental meshwork, the dense connections formed among the 100 billion or so neurons inside our skulls, was largely fixed by the time we reached adulthood.

    Is Google Making Us Stupid? 2008

  • Then, in a 90° angle to that, you weave the thread in with your needle, alternately going over and under the threads already in including the threads of the meshwork.

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  • Then, in a 90° angle to that, you weave the thread in with your needle, alternately going over and under the threads already in including the threads of the meshwork.

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  • I went back, but this time I pressed my face right up against the metal meshwork of the fence.

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  • I went back, but this time I pressed my face right up against the metal meshwork of the fence.

    Becoming Holyfield Evander Holyfield with Lee Gruenfeld 2008

  • I went back, but this time I pressed my face right up against the metal meshwork of the fence.

    Becoming Holyfield Evander Holyfield with Lee Gruenfeld 2008

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