Lunch vs. Mess

Lunchnoun

A light meal usually eaten around midday, notably when not as main meal of the day.

Lunchnoun

(cricket) A break in play between the first and second sessions.

Lunchnoun

Any small meal, especially one eaten at a social gathering.

Lunchverb

(intransitive) To eat lunch.

Lunchverb

(transitive) To treat to lunch.

Lunchnoun

A luncheon; specifically, a light repast between breakfast and dinner, most commonly about noontime.

Lunchverb

To take luncheon.

Lunchnoun

a midday meal

Lunchverb

take the midday meal;

Lunchverb

provide a midday meal for;

Lunch

Lunch, an abbreviation for luncheon, is a meal eaten around midday. During the 20th century, the meaning gradually narrowed to a meal eaten midday.

Messnoun

A disagreeable mixture or confusion of things; hence, a situation resulting from blundering or from misunderstanding; a disorder.

Messnoun

(colloquial) A large quantity or number.

Messnoun

(euphemistic) Excrement.

Messnoun

(figuratively) A person in a state of (especially emotional) turmoil or disarray; an emotional wreck.

Messnoun

(obsolete) Mass; a church service.

Messnoun

(archaic) A quantity of food set on a table at one time; provision of food for a person or party for one meal; also, the food given to an animal at one time.

Messnoun

A number of persons who eat together, and for whom food is prepared in common, especially military personnel who eat at the same table.

Messnoun

A set of four from the old practice of dividing companies into sets of four at dinner.

Messnoun

(US) The milk given by a cow at one milking.

Messverb

(transitive) To make a mess of.

Messverb

(transitive) To throw into confusion.

Messverb

(intransitive) To interfere.

Messverb

screw around with, to bother, to be annoying with

Messverb

(intransitive) To take meals with a mess.

Messverb

(intransitive) To belong to a mess.

Messverb

(intransitive) To eat (with others).

Messverb

(transitive) To supply with a mess.

Messnoun

Mass; church service.

Messnoun

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.

Messnoun

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.

Messnoun

A set of four; - from the old practice of dividing companies into sets of four at dinner.

Messnoun

The milk given by a cow at one milking.

Messnoun

A disagreeable mixture or confusion of things; hence, a situation resulting from blundering or from misunderstanding; as, he made a mess of it.

Messverb

To take meals with a mess; to belong to a mess; to eat (with others); as, I mess with the wardroom officers.

Messverb

To supply with a mess.

Messverb

To make a mess{5} of; to disorder or muddle; to muss; to jumble; to disturb; to mess up.

Messnoun

a state of confusion and disorderliness;

Messnoun

informal terms for a difficult situation;

Messnoun

soft semiliquid food;

Messnoun

a meal eaten by service personnel

Messnoun

a (large) military dining room where service personnel eat or relax

Messnoun

(often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent;

Messverb

eat in a mess hall

Messverb

make a mess of or create disorder in;

Mess

The mess (also called a mess deck aboard ships) is an area where military personnel socialize, eat, and (in some cases) live. The term is also used to indicate the groups of military personnel who belong to separate messes, such as the Officers' mess, the CPOs' mess, and the Enlisted mess.