Flour+or+meal

  • 31meal — /mi:l/ noun 1 (C) an occasion when you eat food, for example breakfast or lunch: Dinner is the main meal of the day for most people. | What time are you having your meal? | go (out) for a meal: After the movie we went for a meal in a Chinese… …

    Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • 32meal — {{11}}meal (n.1) food; time for eating, c.1200 (perhaps late Old English), mel appointed time for eating, also a meal, feast, from O.E. mæl fixed time, occasion, a meal, from P.Gmc. *mæla (Cf. O.Fris. mel time; M.Du. mael, Du. maal time, meal;… …

    Etymology dictionary

  • 33meal — 1. n. 1 an occasion when food is eaten. 2 the food eaten on one occasion. Phrases and idioms: make a meal of 1 treat (a task etc.) too laboriously or fussily. 2 consume as a meal. meals on wheels Brit. a service by which meals are delivered to… …

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  • 34meal moth — noun or meal snout moth : any of several small widely distributed moths (as the Indian meal moth or the Mediterranean flour moth) having larvae that feed in milled and stored grain products; especially : a small golden brown moth (Pyralis… …

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  • 35flour — flaÊŠÉ™(r) n. finely ground meal made from grain; any fine powder v. make into flour; sprinkle with flour, coat with flour; break up into particles …

    English contemporary dictionary

  • 36flour — [[t]flaʊər, ˈflaʊ ər[/t]] n. 1) coo the finely ground meal of grain, esp. wheat, separated by bolting 2) coo a finely ground preparation of fish, bananas, dehydrated potatoes, etc 3) a fine, soft powder 4) to make (grain) into flour; grind and… …

    From formal English to slang

  • 37Flour —    Grain reduced to the form of meal is spoken of in the time of Abraham (Gen. 18:6). As baking was a daily necessity, grain was also ground daily at the mills (Jer. 25:10). The flour mingled with water was kneaded in kneading troughs, and… …

    Easton's Bible Dictionary

  • 38flour — n. & v. n. 1 a meal or powder obtained by grinding and usu. sifting cereals, esp. wheat. 2 any fine powder. v.tr. 1 sprinkle with flour. 2 US grind into flour. Derivatives: floury adj. (flourier, flouriest). flouriness n. Etymology: ME, different …

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  • 39meal — noun /miːl/ a) Food that is prepared and eaten, usually at a specific time (e.g. breakfast = morning meal, lunch = noon meal, etc). b) The coarse ground edible part of various grains often used to feed animals; flour …

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  • 40meal — 1. The food consumed at regular intervals or at a specified time. 2. Ground flour from a grain. Boyden m. a m. consisting of three or four egg yolks, beaten up in milk and seasoned with sugar, port wine, etc., used to test the evacuation …

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