meal
Speech parts
1. meal - Noun
2. meal - Verb
Meaning
The portion of food taken at a particular time for the satisfaction of appetite; the quantity usually taken at one time with the purpose of satisfying hunger; a repast; the act or time of eating a meal; as, the traveler has not eaten a good meal for a week; there was silence during the meal.
Grain (esp. maize, rye, or oats) that is coarsely ground and unbolted; also, a kind of flour made from beans, pease, etc.; sometimes, any flour, esp. if coarse.
Any substance that is coarsely pulverized like meal, but not granulated.
To sprinkle with, or as with, meal.
To pulverize; as, mealed powder.
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As a kid, I got three meals a day. Oatmeal, miss-a-meal and no meal.
Thanksgiving is a typically American holiday... The lavish meal is a symbol of the fact that abundant consumption is the result and reward of production.
The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.
It is better to carry stones with a wise man than accept the meal of a madman.
A meal without flesh is like feeding on grass.
A smiling face is half the meal.