mesh bag

collocation in English

meaningsofmeshandbag

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mesh
noun[C or U]
uk
/meʃ/us
/meʃ/
(a piece of) material like a net with spaces in it, made from wire, plastic, ...
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bag
noun[C]
uk
/bæɡ/us
/bæɡ/
a soft container made out of paper or thin plastic, and open at the top, used to hold foods and ...
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(Definition ofmeshandbagfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofmesh bag

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At the funnel base a small polyestermeshbagwas attached to collect the fruits and seeds.
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Fragile items, such as feather bedspreads or tasseled rugs or hangings, may be enclosed in a loosemeshbag.
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A finemeshbag, usually made of nylon or fashioned out of a voile material, lines the brewing pot to which the grain is added.
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Techniques such as the rope andmeshbagmethod are used to culture sponges independently or within an integrated multi-trophic aquaculture system setting.
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It helps to visualize this as a bag of oranges wrapped in ameshbag.
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One is ameshbagwith seasonings inside that will steep into the water.
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The finely woven mesh bags allowed the transfer of water and solutes, but contained the seeds.
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The mesh bags and pat remnants were then searched for invertebrates, which were collected and identified.
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Instead of forming the curds, they are said to have hung the clabber in ameshbagin a tree and let the whey drain off.
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Seeds were exhumed from the mesh bags under fluorescent white light and were rinsed with distilled water to remove adhered soil particles.
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Fresh litter from the three species was collected, oven dried and placed in litter decomposition mesh bags.
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This strategy is labour-intensive and costly, with growth rates and survival found to be no greater than when farming occurs solely via themeshbagmethod.
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Seeds were exhumed from the mesh bags under laboratory fluorescent white light and were rinsed with distilled water to remove adhered soil particles.
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From 960 seeds buried in mesh bags, we recovered 396 intact seeds.
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Because no mesh bags were used, leaf fragments may have been broken off by stream flow as decay advanced.
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If we are not to include these cotton mesh bags in the exemptions, there will be an effect on the price of food to the public.
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