meal
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
meal
n 1: the food served and eaten at one time [syn: {meal},
{repast}]
2: any of the occasions for eating food that occur by custom or
habit at more or less fixed times
3: coarsely ground foodstuff; especially seeds of various cereal
grasses or pulse
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Meal \Meal\, n. [OE. mele, AS. melu, melo; akin to D. meel, G.
mehl, OHG. melo, Icel. mj["o]l, SW. mj["o]l, Dan. meel, also
to D. malen to grind, G. mahlen, OHG., OS., & Goth. malan,
Icel. mala, W. malu, L. molere, Gr. my`lh mill, and E. mill.
[root]108. Cf. {Mill}, {Mold} soil, {Mole} an animal,
{Immolate}, {Molar}.]
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1. 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.
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2. Any substance that is coarsely pulverized like meal, but
not granulated.
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{Meal beetle} (Zool.), the adult of the meal worm. See {Meal
worm}, below.
{Meal moth} (Zool.), a lepidopterous insect ({Asopia
farinalis}), the larvae of which feed upon meal, flour,
etc.
{Meal worm} (Zool.), the larva of a beetle ({Tenebrio
molitor}) which infests granaries, bakehouses, etc., and
is very injurious to flour and meal.
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from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Meal \Meal\, n. [OE. mel; akin to E. meal a part, and to D. maal
time, meal, G. mal time, mahl meal, Icel. m[=a]l measure,
time, meal, Goth. m[=e]l time, and to E. measure. See
{Measure}.]
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.
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What strange fish
Hath made his meal on thee? --Shak.
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from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
101 Moby Thesaurus words for "meal":
C ration, K ration, air pollution, allotment, allowance, attritus,
barley, bird seed, board, bran, breakfast, carry too far, cat food,
chicken feed, chop, chow, collation, commons, consume, corn,
cosmic dust, crumb, crumble, devour, dinner, dog food, dust,
dust ball, eat, eatage, efflorescence, emergency rations, ensilage,
entertainment, fallout, fare, farina, feast, feed, feed on,
field rations, filings, flour, fodder, food, forage, go overboard,
go to extremes, go too far, grain, grits, groats, grub, hay,
ingest, kittens, lint, lunch, luncheon, mash, meals, meat, mess,
nourishment, oats, overdo, overplay, partake of, pasturage,
pasture, pet food, powder, provender, pussies, raspings, rations,
refection, refreshment, regalement, repas, repast, sawdust,
scratch, scratch feed, short commons, silage, slops, smut, snack,
soot, spread, straw, supper, swill, table, take, tea, treat,
tucker, victuals, wheat
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