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Meaning meal meaning

What does meal mean?
Definitions in simple English

meal

The edible part of certain grains; it is often used to feed animals.

meal

the food served and eaten at one time coarsely ground foodstuff; especially seeds of various cereal grasses or pulse any of the occasions for eating food that occur by custom or habit at more or less fixed times

Synonyms meal synonyms

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Topics meal topics

What do people use meal to talk about?
  • What words refer to the thing that is cooked?

Examples meal examples

How do I use meal in a sentence?

Simple sentences

He washed her dirty hands before the meal.
She washed her dirty hands before the meal.
A meal without wine is like a day without sunshine.
This is my favorite meal.
He got used to not having a hot meal every day.
I don't feel like having such a meal.
Do you want to taste this meal?
Enjoy your meal!
We're going out for a meal on Friday.
We eat a meal three times a day.
The meal satisfied his hunger.
The waiter was such a nice man we didn't like to complain about the meal.
Thank you for the wonderful meal.
These things constitute a balanced meal.
Is a meal served on this flight?
This meal is adequate for two.
Take this capsule within thirty minutes of each meal.
Thanks for the delicious meal.
Did you have a good meal at that restaurant?
Can you cook a meal?
It won't hurt you to skip one meal.
Take this medicine after each meal.
You have to take this powder after each meal.
We thoroughly enjoyed the delicious meal.
This meal is adequate for three.
I had hardly finished my meal when my friend phoned me and invited me out for dinner.

Movie subtitles

That meal was perfectly mediocre.
Anyway, it's not one of those 'ads for my meal' campaign.
Meal-time after the Show.
No I mean meal courses.
This is the third time today I've been gypped out of a meal.
I only have one meal a day, and I'd rather hate to spoil it.
But why one meal a day?
I like a good meal.
Not much of a meal for a man.
Gold dig that guy for a meal?
Young man having a free meal in there.
You forgot your meal ticket. Oh!
After a meal like that?
I've seen you watching me from the tank. wanting to make a meal out of me.
I beg my noble guests not to disdain my invitation, just a simple meal.
We set up a 75-cent meal that knocks their eyes out.
Best meal i've eaten for ages.
Guess you're not worried about me wasting away after this meal, are you, Mrs. Willis? You have rather stuffed yourself.
You want to risk this for a meal?
It's your last meal, my lad. I'm beginning to tumble.
You never gave a thought to those starving people in the bread lines not knowing when their next meal was, not able to feed their wife and kids.
He said that he was very sad and even had a meal with me.
It's been a long time since I've had such a good meal.
I like a good meal. Oh, you!
I just seemed to see a meal ticket coming over the horizon.
Oh, I know a real nice place where we can get a healthful meal.
And the noncommissioned officers eat tiger at every meal.
What were you going to do, gold-dig that guy for a meal?
With dogs it means you can get a meal.
The dog meant a meal.
It's your last meal, my lad.
It's been so long since we all shared a meal.

News and current affairs

It took more than a century for the European diet to reach the point at which meat is consumed at every meal, including breakfast.
The EU also needs common initiatives to replace piece-meal bilateral agreements on tax evasion and tax havens, which undermine the goal of a fair society.
After all, when you don't know where your next meal is coming from, it's hard to worry about what global temperatures will be 100 years from now.
The average North American meal now travels 2,400 kilometers (1,491 miles) from field to plate.
When fed only vegetable matter, such as soy meal, salmon do not grow well, and end up looking and tasting like tofu.
School meal programs using locally produced food could boost attendance by poor children, especially girls, and improve their ability to learn, while also providing an expanded market for local farmers.
People who naively believed that cows ate grass discovered that beef cattle in feed lots may be fed anything from corn to fish meal, chicken litter (complete with chicken droppings), and slaughterhouse waste.
Once they have digested Yukos, they will look for another meal.
In most countries, it is possible to visit zoos and see bored animals pacing back and forth in cages, with nothing to do but wait for the next meal.
So looking only at the cost of a meal or of a day in the hospital causes an overestimate in the price index and an underestimate of the rise in the real standard of living.
This is Europe, so they do not die of hunger. But that a third of all children in a member country of the European Union live on one meal a day is a source of shame - and thus should also be a primary political issue.
Our metabolisms started to malfunction when humans began consuming fat and carbohydrates at the same meal.
Or have some countries been so scarred by the financial crisis that they don't care where their next meal ticket comes from?
Similarly, in the UK and elsewhere, healthy cattle were fed meat and bone meal made from infected cattle.
That surplus, in turn, has contributed directly to improved education, as families donate a portion of their surplus to the school's mid-day meal program.
But that a third of all children in a member country of the European Union live on one meal a day is a source of shame - and thus should also be a primary political issue.

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