Flour vs. Meal

Flour vs. Meal — Is There a Difference?
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Difference Between Flour and Meal

Flournoun

Powder obtained by grinding or milling cereal grains, especially wheat, or other foodstuffs such as soybeans and potatoes, and used to bake bread, cakes, and pastry.

Mealnoun

Food that is prepared and eaten, usually at a specific time, and usually in a comparatively large quantity (as opposed to a snack).

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

Flournoun

The food made by grinding and bolting cleaned wheat (not durum or red durum) until it meets specified levels of fineness, dryness, and freedom from bran and germ, also containing any of certain enzymes, ascorbic acid, and certain bleaching agents.

Mealnoun

Food served or eaten as a repast.

Flournoun

Powder of other material.

wood flour, produced by sanding woodmustard flour

Mealnoun

(obsolete) A time or an occasion.

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Flournoun

obsolete form of flower

that nobody is wished to see my dead body. & that no murnurs walk behind me at my funeral. & that no flours be planted on my grave. — Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge.

Mealnoun

The coarse-ground edible part of various grains often used to feed animals; flour or a coarser blend than flour.

Flourverb

(transitive) To apply flour to something; to cover with flour.

Mealnoun

A speck or spot.

Flourverb

(transitive) To reduce to flour.

Mealnoun

A part; a fragment; a portion.

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Flourverb

(intransitive) To break up into fine globules of mercury in the amalgamation process.

Mealverb

To yield or be plentiful in meal.

Flournoun

fine powdery foodstuff obtained by grinding and sifting the meal of a cereal grain

Mealverb

(transitive) To defile or taint.

Flourverb

cover with flour;

flour fish or meat before frying it

Mealnoun

the food served and eaten at one time

Flourverb

convert grain into flour

Mealnoun

any of the occasions for eating food that occur by custom or habit at more or less fixed times

Mealnoun

coarsely ground foodstuff; especially seeds of various cereal grasses or pulse