to mesh with
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4.7
- phrasal verb
:
encajar con
- The team members' skills must mesh with the project requirements for us to succeed.
- mesh well with
- mesh with the goals
- mesh with the culture
And if what they're claiming doesn't mesh with physics, that's a problem.
- And if what they're claiming doesn't mesh with physics, that's a problem.
- I guess I think they just don't mesh with my preferences I guess I'm not sure.
- I, I think it was just how, how does your work mesh with people's belief systems?
- The cosmic forces mesh with people in a strange, complex intuitive interaction.
- I can hear the TikTok from the clock on the wall as it meshes with the thump thump beat of my heart.
- You're you're going to carve away the things that you know, don't mesh with you and you're going to add on the things that do.
- You know, it's just sort of the way my mind works that happens to really mesh very well with being functional in a kitchen.
- And that goes down very badly with the local population because it just doesn't mesh with the way their society functions.
Examples
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In combat operations, alliance partners are increasingly finding it difficult to mesh with U.S. forces.
Academic text (2002) -
Designs must also mesh with the culture and routines of the communities that will use them.
Academic text (2011) -
You keep doing these design projects so you can learn your own process and how existing processes mesh with your own process and you.
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You know, it's just sort of the way my mind works that happens to really mesh very well with being functional in a kitchen.
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How do project due dates mesh with your other school and personal commitments?
Academic text (2007) -
Implementations demand that law firm culture mesh with the goals of the information technology department.
Academic text (2004) -
As a result, their conclusions rarely mesh with observations on the ground.
Academic text (1998) -
His way of coaching does not mesh with the LA Lakers' style of play.
Blog text (6) -
They're providing care for people from overseas, and this meshes with their training of physicians from other communities where there's that need.
Academic text (2013) -
The broad themes of these narratives mesh with those in the sections on contemporary Africa and the Diaspora.
Academic text (2001)
Synonyms
325
4.1
To arrange people or activities so they work well together
44
3.2
Match another thing and look good together
38
2.3
Fit well with each other, especially in color or style
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6.7
To fit things together so they work well and match
3
6.2
To stick together to form one unit, like parts of a machine or ideas in a plan
1
4.2
Fit together and look good
Fit together with no gaps like the fingers of two hands
To fit together like gears so parts touch and work together
Antonyms
How Compatible
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'to harmonize or fit together' is directly compositional from 'mesh' (to interlock or fit together) plus the preposition 'with' indicating compatibility or association. This follows a common verb + preposition pattern whose sense is predictable from the parts, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
The phrasal verb mesh with comes from the picture of two gears or pieces of net whose parts lock together so they move as one; the idea of mesh is parts joining. So when ideas, systems, or people mesh with each other, they 'fit together' or 'work well'.