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noun miːlmil 1Any of the regular occasions in a day when a reasonably large amount of food is eaten. Example sentencesExamples - Her mother had mentioned earlier that her family would be joined by a few guests in her parents' apartments for the evening meal.
- After the evening meal, the crowd slowly migrated back towards the Grand Hall.
- She had helped to serve the family at meals and would occasionally catch him studying her.
- We spoke nothing more of the matter for the duration of the meal, occasionally making random comments to one another.
- When they reached the center, it was time for most workers to go home and so the place was teeming with people rushing home for their evening meal.
- She presented the garments to everyone at their evening meal, and everyone gratefully thanked her.
- It was not really polite for us girls, especially me, to initiate a conversation during our evening meal.
- During the evening meal at his family dwelling, Jonas hesitatingly asks his parents if they love him.
- It was an hour past the evening meal by the time they reached another town (they had passed two others earlier that day) and had found an inn to stay at for the night.
- She would have liked tea very much, but it wasn't important; there would be plenty of tea at the evening meal, several hours from then.
- Here he can enjoy a swim, before continuing to an island restaurant for a buffet meal and leisure time after lunch.
- After the evening meal, he and his friends turned over their food bowls to make drums.
- Already they knew the food for the evening meal was ready.
- It's nearly time for our evening meal, and I can see that you were on your way to your rooms to freshen up.
- She went straight to the evening meal afterwards, and sat next to Carden without saying a word, simply because she felt like being difficult.
- She spent most of her time in there, only leaving for the afternoon and evening meals.
- You can try adding the medicine to a small amount of food and giving it to your cat before her regular meal.
- This includes an evening meal and breakfast on both mornings.
- Most of the guards she saw were simply sitting around socializing over their evening meals.
- They had gotten used to fairly regular meals since moving here, and he wanted to keep it that way.
- 1.1 The food eaten during a meal.
a bar serving light meals Example sentencesExamples - My mom would enjoy cooking those favourite healthy meals of hers in it.
- They stopped at noon for a small meal of bread and cheese.
- So he and Teresa invited Jelly to join them and sat down to a meal of beef stew and fresh bread.
- He picked up his regular meal, toast, wheat-cereal with milk and made his way to a table to eat.
- Then quickly she went back to cleaning up the mess while the meal cooked.
- Once there, she inhaled a small meal of bread and cheese before rushing off to begin work.
- Here, cooks will prepare a light meal of mixed salad, tinned cold fish or meat, bread and cheese and fruit.
- Causey ate a large meal that evening, the best meal he'd eaten in nearly two years.
- He was more inclined to cook his own meal than order one from some fast food place.
- Dan nodded, pleasantly, and tucked into his meal of potatoes, roast beef, and vegetables.
- With winter pretty much here, it's a great meal to have for lunch, dinner, or both.
- As usual, the meal was cooked to perfection but I didn't feel hungry.
- She walked into a small bar and ordered a light meal.
- The weary traveller can relax here on a shady terrace with a light meal and refreshments.
- This includes the lecture, wine and a light meal of French bread, salami and cheese.
- Lisa, their cook, made fabulous meals, but nothing compared to the cakes her mother made.
- He had fixed a fine meal of beef, potatoes, carrots and onions, and the men were lining up eagerly, plates in one hand and coffee mugs in the other.
- I have never washed a dish, cleaned a floor nor cooked a meal.
- He had cooked a meal of barbecued chicken and boiled potatoes with butter.
- While cooking the meal of grilled chicken, rice, rolls, and peas, the doorbell rang.
Phrases informal Carry out (a task or action) with unnecessary effort or thoroughness, especially for effect. he made a meal of it by falling dramatically to the ground clutching his face Example sentencesExamples - Even though the queens got hosed off pretty early in this game, the players still managed to make a meal of it.
- If you make a meal of your adventure, your spirit is revived.
- Harris avoids making a meal of any of this, and for the most part avoids those ‘gosh we're in the presence of genius' moments.
- The media makes a meal of this sort of thing, ourselves included I guess, precisely because it's so unusual.
- Scorsese and scriptwriter John Logan have decided to make a meal of the illness that eventually forced him in later life to become a recluse.
- A lot of actors would make a meal of this, but Brucie just sleepwalks through the whole thing.
- Michael Campbell, meanwhile, makes a meal of his birdie putt on the ninth, and is suddenly facing a tricky five-footer to stay at five under.
- The camera makes a meal of the moment, slowly panning round its landscaped perfection, taking in the fountains, the pools, the impeccable box hedging, the paving stones set in the manicured lawn.
- ‘If the last one was four years ago, I should think the Colonel feels entitled to make a meal of this one,’ said Haig.
- He even made a meal of appearing right in front of her and overcrowding her so she couldn't step around him at all.
Meals delivered to old people or invalids who cannot cook for themselves. Example sentencesExamples - Now Tiger, I only have three hours until the nice woman from meals on wheels arrives.
- They asked if I wanted someone to come, and have meals on wheels, but I'm not old.
Origin Old English mǣl (also in the sense 'measure', surviving in words such as piecemeal 'measure taken at one time'), of Germanic origin. The early sense of meal involved a notion of ‘fixed time’; compare with Dutch maal 'meal, (portion of) time' and German Mal 'time', Mahl 'meal', from an Indo-European root meaning 'to measure'. Meal meaning ‘the edible part of any grain or pulse’ goes back to an ancient root shared with Latin molere ‘to grind’, which shares a root with mill. The meal at which food is eaten has a root meaning ‘to measure’. In Old English meal also meant ‘a measure’, a use which survives in piecemeal (Middle English) ‘a bit at a time’. The expression to make a meal of dates from the early 17th century in the sense ‘to take advantage of’, but the notion ‘to make something unduly laborious’ goes back only to the 1960s. The idea behind mealy-mouthed, ‘afraid to speak frankly or straightforwardly’, is of a person having their mouth full of meal and so being afraid to open it fully. It is first recorded in the 1570s, and probably comes from an old German proverb.
Rhymes allele, anele, anneal, appeal, Bastille, Beale, Castile, chenille, cochineal, cockatiel, conceal, congeal, creel, deal, eel, Emile, feel, freewheel, genteel, Guayaquil, heal, heel, he'll, keel, Kiel, kneel, leal, Lille, Lucille, manchineel, misdeal, Neil, O'Neill, ordeal, peal, peel, reel, schlemiel, seal, seel, she'll, spiel, squeal, steal, steel, Steele, teal, underseal, veal, weal, we'll, wheel, zeal noun miːlmil mass noun1The edible part of any grain or pulse ground to powder. she called to Judith to bring some meal for the hens Example sentencesExamples - That dedication allows AGP to be a low-cost supplier to industry users of soybean oil and meal.
- The examples compare corn silage to alfalfa hay, ‘normal’ silage, and corn grain plus soybean meal.
- It's a key producer of lysine, a feed additive derived from amino acids that is mixed with corn and soybean meal to fatten up livestock.
- Their diet consists of corn and soybean meal, water, vitamins and minerals.
- You remove the tannin by leaching it out of the ground-up acorn meal but are left with a fairly tasteless mush for making pancakes or the like.
- In contrast, if soybean meal is used as the sole supplemental protein source, there will be no benefit to added valine.
- Kids preferred supplements based on either corn or soybean meal over those based on fishmeal or molasses.
- The researchers traced the dioxin to chicken feed, specifically soybean meal.
- His vision was to find ways to use soybean oil and meal in parts for his automobiles.
- Treatment cows received diets similar to the control diet except the DF replaced all of the soybean meal and corn.
- The only problem is, South American soybean meal tends to have less protein, so the African farmer often has to purchase feed additives.
- A conventional soybean expeller saw an opportunity, became certified and started producing organic soybean meal and soy oil.
- These are the only processing agents that are in contact with the soybean oil and meal.
- The processors were concerned that between 3,500 and 4,000 tonnes of Zimbabwean soya bean meal was destined for Zambia.
- The diet was primarily finely rolled milo, with sorghum silage, soybean meal, urea, and ammonium sulfate.
- While U.S. soybean meal exports to Mexico have been smaller than soybean exports, trade in soybean meal has started to grow very rapidly.
- Frequently, ground limestone is added to processed soybean meal to improve its flowability.
- Burcon developed a process to extract and purify valuable proteins from canola meal.
- Soybean meal, milk protein and alfalfa are feed ingredients high in lysine.
- At a board retreat, he suggested adding a soybean extruder to make soy meal and oil.
- 1.1Scottish Oatmeal.
- 1.2US Maize flour.
Example sentencesExamples - He said the Congolese were especially in need of foodstuffs such as maize meal, maize, goats and chickens.
- Meanwhile, the price of maize and maize meal have gradually started to rise as was expected at this time of the year in both urban and rural centers.
- He said price reductions were recorded for maize meal, fresh meat and vegetables, while other food items registered relatively stable prices.
- ‘Even if the maize meal is available locally, the problem is that the price is too expensive,’ said Meygag.
- Namibia's leading miller, Namib Mills, said on Wednesday it will reduce the prices of the staple food, maize meal and wheat flour products.
- Unsifted maize meal will be reduced by more than 30%, depending on the size of packaging.
- The price for maize meal is expected to go up again on 11 March this year.
- Although both soft and hard maize can be used for the manufacture of this meal, soft maize is prevalent in the region as it is grown more widely and is therefore more affordable.
- Others were blankets and toweling, beef, maize meal, protein foods, milk and roasted coffee.
- The Namibian Agronomic Board this week resisted pressure to issue import permits for maize meal from South Africa.
- 1.3 Any powdery substance made by grinding.
Example sentencesExamples - In July 1988, Britain banned the feeding of cattle with meal containing the ground-up remains of cows, in order to halt the spread of BSE.
Origin Old English melu, meolo, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch meel and German Mehl, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin molere 'to grind'. nounmēlmil 1Any of the regular occasions in a day when a reasonably large amount of food is eaten, such as breakfast, lunch, or dinner. Example sentencesExamples - Already they knew the food for the evening meal was ready.
- She presented the garments to everyone at their evening meal, and everyone gratefully thanked her.
- Here he can enjoy a swim, before continuing to an island restaurant for a buffet meal and leisure time after lunch.
- After the evening meal, the crowd slowly migrated back towards the Grand Hall.
- She spent most of her time in there, only leaving for the afternoon and evening meals.
- She went straight to the evening meal afterwards, and sat next to Carden without saying a word, simply because she felt like being difficult.
- When they reached the center, it was time for most workers to go home and so the place was teeming with people rushing home for their evening meal.
- This includes an evening meal and breakfast on both mornings.
- It was an hour past the evening meal by the time they reached another town (they had passed two others earlier that day) and had found an inn to stay at for the night.
- She would have liked tea very much, but it wasn't important; there would be plenty of tea at the evening meal, several hours from then.
- You can try adding the medicine to a small amount of food and giving it to your cat before her regular meal.
- They had gotten used to fairly regular meals since moving here, and he wanted to keep it that way.
- We spoke nothing more of the matter for the duration of the meal, occasionally making random comments to one another.
- Most of the guards she saw were simply sitting around socializing over their evening meals.
- It's nearly time for our evening meal, and I can see that you were on your way to your rooms to freshen up.
- She had helped to serve the family at meals and would occasionally catch him studying her.
- During the evening meal at his family dwelling, Jonas hesitatingly asks his parents if they love him.
- Her mother had mentioned earlier that her family would be joined by a few guests in her parents' apartments for the evening meal.
- After the evening meal, he and his friends turned over their food bowls to make drums.
- It was not really polite for us girls, especially me, to initiate a conversation during our evening meal.
- 1.1 The food eaten on regular occasions.
Example sentencesExamples - As usual, the meal was cooked to perfection but I didn't feel hungry.
- Once there, she inhaled a small meal of bread and cheese before rushing off to begin work.
- Then quickly she went back to cleaning up the mess while the meal cooked.
- With winter pretty much here, it's a great meal to have for lunch, dinner, or both.
- So he and Teresa invited Jelly to join them and sat down to a meal of beef stew and fresh bread.
- My mom would enjoy cooking those favourite healthy meals of hers in it.
- He had cooked a meal of barbecued chicken and boiled potatoes with butter.
- He was more inclined to cook his own meal than order one from some fast food place.
- Here, cooks will prepare a light meal of mixed salad, tinned cold fish or meat, bread and cheese and fruit.
- Causey ate a large meal that evening, the best meal he'd eaten in nearly two years.
- They stopped at noon for a small meal of bread and cheese.
- She walked into a small bar and ordered a light meal.
- He picked up his regular meal, toast, wheat-cereal with milk and made his way to a table to eat.
- He had fixed a fine meal of beef, potatoes, carrots and onions, and the men were lining up eagerly, plates in one hand and coffee mugs in the other.
- Lisa, their cook, made fabulous meals, but nothing compared to the cakes her mother made.
- Dan nodded, pleasantly, and tucked into his meal of potatoes, roast beef, and vegetables.
- I have never washed a dish, cleaned a floor nor cooked a meal.
- While cooking the meal of grilled chicken, rice, rolls, and peas, the doorbell rang.
- The weary traveller can relax here on a shady terrace with a light meal and refreshments.
- This includes the lecture, wine and a light meal of French bread, salami and cheese.
Phrases Meals delivered to elderly people or invalids who are unable either to prepare meals or have meals otherwise provided. Example sentencesExamples - Now Tiger, I only have three hours until the nice woman from meals on wheels arrives.
- They asked if I wanted someone to come, and have meals on wheels, but I'm not old.
Origin Old English mǣl (also in the sense ‘measure’, surviving in words such as piecemeal ‘measure taken at one time’), of Germanic origin. The early sense of meal involved a notion of ‘fixed time’; compare with Dutch maal ‘meal, (portion of) time’ and German Mal ‘time’, Mahl ‘meal’, from an Indo-European root meaning ‘to measure’. nounmēlmil 1The edible part of any grain or pulse ground to powder, such as cornmeal. Example sentencesExamples - It's a key producer of lysine, a feed additive derived from amino acids that is mixed with corn and soybean meal to fatten up livestock.
- The examples compare corn silage to alfalfa hay, ‘normal’ silage, and corn grain plus soybean meal.
- You remove the tannin by leaching it out of the ground-up acorn meal but are left with a fairly tasteless mush for making pancakes or the like.
- The only problem is, South American soybean meal tends to have less protein, so the African farmer often has to purchase feed additives.
- These are the only processing agents that are in contact with the soybean oil and meal.
- That dedication allows AGP to be a low-cost supplier to industry users of soybean oil and meal.
- Burcon developed a process to extract and purify valuable proteins from canola meal.
- While U.S. soybean meal exports to Mexico have been smaller than soybean exports, trade in soybean meal has started to grow very rapidly.
- A conventional soybean expeller saw an opportunity, became certified and started producing organic soybean meal and soy oil.
- Soybean meal, milk protein and alfalfa are feed ingredients high in lysine.
- Their diet consists of corn and soybean meal, water, vitamins and minerals.
- Frequently, ground limestone is added to processed soybean meal to improve its flowability.
- Kids preferred supplements based on either corn or soybean meal over those based on fishmeal or molasses.
- His vision was to find ways to use soybean oil and meal in parts for his automobiles.
- The diet was primarily finely rolled milo, with sorghum silage, soybean meal, urea, and ammonium sulfate.
- The researchers traced the dioxin to chicken feed, specifically soybean meal.
- At a board retreat, he suggested adding a soybean extruder to make soy meal and oil.
- In contrast, if soybean meal is used as the sole supplemental protein source, there will be no benefit to added valine.
- The processors were concerned that between 3,500 and 4,000 tonnes of Zimbabwean soya bean meal was destined for Zambia.
- Treatment cows received diets similar to the control diet except the DF replaced all of the soybean meal and corn.
- 1.1 Any powdery substance made by grinding.
Example sentencesExamples - In July 1988, Britain banned the feeding of cattle with meal containing the ground-up remains of cows, in order to halt the spread of BSE.
Origin Old English melu, meolo, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch meel and German Mehl, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin molere ‘to grind’. |