Definition of Meal

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Definition of Meal

Meal

A part; a fragment; a portion.

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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Meal Quotations

He didn't come out of my belly, but my God, I've made his bones, because I've attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I'm so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride.
John Lennon

Miss a meal if you have to, but don't miss a book.
Jim Rohn

Happiness? A good cigar, a good meal, a good cigar and a good woman - or a bad woman; it depends on how much happiness you can handle.
George Burns

It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else's meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.
Arthur Schopenhauer

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.
Calvin Trillin

Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
E. O. Wilson

You have a lot of people on the run and really don't have time to sit down and eat a balanced meal.
Bo Jackson

When I am traveling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep; it is on such occasions that ideas flow best and most abundantly.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Music's been around a long time, and there's going to be music long after Ray Charles is dead. I just want to make my mark, leave something musically good behind. If it's a big record, that's the frosting on the cake, but music's the main meal.
Ray Charles

There's nothing you can really do to prepare to rock. Do you prepare to eat a delicious meal? Are you hungry? Then you're gonna eat it.
Jack Black

Meal Translations

meal in Afrikaans is maaltyd, ete
meal in Dutch is bloem, meel
meal in Finnish is jauhot
meal in French is repas, farine
meal in German is Essen, Mahlzeit, Mahl
meal in Italian is pietanza
meal in Latin is cena, far farris
meal in Spanish is harina, comida

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