Flour vs. Meal
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 flourMealnoun
(obsolete) A time or an occasion.
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.
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 itMealnoun
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
