Flour+or+meal

  • 21meal|y — meal|y1 «MEE lee», adjective, meal|i|er, meal|i|est. 1. like meal; dry and powdery: »mealy potatoes. 2. of or containing meal: »the mealy treasures of the harvest bin …

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  • 22meal — Ⅰ. meal [1] ► NOUN 1) any of the regular daily occasions when food is eaten. 2) the food eaten on such an occasion. ● make a meal of Cf. ↑make a meal of ORIGIN Old English …

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  • 23Flour — For other uses, see Flour (disambiguation). A paper sack of wheat flour, with a metal measuring scoop. Flour is a powder which is made from grinding cereal grains, other seeds or roots (like Cassava). It is the main ingredient of bread, which is… …

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  • 24flour — flourless, adj. /floweur, flow euhr/, n. 1. the finely ground meal of grain, esp. the finer meal separated by bolting. 2. the finely ground and bolted meal of wheat, as that used in baking. 3. a finely ground, powdery foodstuff, as of dehydrated… …

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  • 25meal — [OE] Meal ‘repast’ and meal ‘flour’ are two distinct words. The former originally meant ‘measure’: it goes back via prehistoric Germanic *mǣlaz (source of German mal ‘time, occasion’ and mahl ‘meal’, Dutch maal ‘time, meal’, and Swedish mål… …

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  • 26meal — [OE] Meal ‘repast’ and meal ‘flour’ are two distinct words. The former originally meant ‘measure’: it goes back via prehistoric Germanic *mǣlaz (source of German mal ‘time, occasion’ and mahl ‘meal’, Dutch maal ‘time, meal’, and Swedish mål… …

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  • 27Meal — For the coarsely ground flour, see flour. Part of a series on Meals …

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  • 28flour — {{11}}flour (n.) early 13c., flur flower (see FLOWER (Cf. flower)); meaning finer portion of ground grain is mid 13c., from the notion of flour as the finest part of meal (Cf. Fr. fleur de farine), as distinguished from the coarser parts (meal).… …

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  • 29flour — /ˈflaʊə / (say flowuh) noun 1. the finely ground meal of wheat or other grain, especially the finer meal separated by bolting. 2. any fine, soft powder: flour of emery. –verb (t) 3. to make (grain, etc.) into flour; grind and bolt. 4. to sprinkle …

  • 30meal — [[t]mi͟ːl[/t]] ♦♦♦ meals 1) N COUNT A meal is an occasion when people sit down and eat, usually at a regular time. She sat next to him throughout the meal... It s rare that I have an evening meal with my children. 2) N COUNT A meal is the food… …

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