meal

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim Food that is prepared and eaten, usually at a specific time, and usually in a comparatively large quantity.

   “Breakfast is the morning meal, lunch is the noon meal, and dinner, or supper, is the evening meal.”

2. isim Food served or eaten as a repast.

   “a1450, The Macro Playsː If thou wilt fare well at meat and meal, come and follow me.”

3. isim A break taken by a police officer in order to eat.

   “They [tape recorders] can be turned off while officers are on meal or in the car to protect their private conversations […]”

4. isim A time or an occasion.

   “Ye wolde wepe at every mele; But for my sone wepe ye never a dele. You would weep at every meal, but for my son you never weep a deal.”

5. isim The ground-up edible part of various grains, used as a basis of food or feed; either flour or a coarser blend than flour (usage varies).
6. isim Any of various similarly granular materials prepared from other sources, such as bones or wood.
7. isim Any of various other granular or powdery materials, either ground by humans or occurring in nature, named figuratively after a resemblance to grain meal.
8. fiil To yield or be plentiful in meal.

   “Of course the yield of grain was small, but much greater than could have been expected; and, the ears being well filled, it mealed well. The pastures were burnt up, so that there was nothing left for the cattle to eat.”

9. isim A speck or spot.
10. isim A part; a fragment; a portion.
11. fiil To defile or taint.

    “Were he meal'd with that / Which he corrects, than were he tyrannous.”