Meal vs. Food

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

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.

Foodnoun

(uncountable) Any solid substance that can be consumed by living organisms, especially by eating, in order to sustain life.

The innkeeper brought them food and drink.

Mealnoun

Food served or eaten as a repast.

Foodnoun

(countable) A foodstuff.

Mealnoun

(obsolete) A time or an occasion.

Foodnoun

Anything that nourishes or sustains.

The man's inspiring speech gave us food for thought.Mozart and Bach are food for my soul.
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Mealnoun

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

Foodnoun

any substance that can be metabolized by an organism to give energy and build tissue

Mealnoun

A speck or spot.

Foodnoun

any solid substance (as opposed to liquid) that is used as a source of nourishment;

food and drink

Mealnoun

A part; a fragment; a portion.

Foodnoun

anything that provides mental stimulus for thinking

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Mealverb

To yield or be plentiful in meal.

Mealverb

(transitive) To defile or taint.

Mealnoun

the food served and eaten at one time

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