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meal (MEEL) (noun)
1. Food eaten to satisfy a person's hunger: Christa and Charles had a nutritious and delicious meal.
2. The ground seeds of certain grass plants: Aaron took the wheat to the mill to be crushed into meal.
2. The ground seeds of certain grass plants: Aaron took the wheat to the mill to be crushed into meal.
zeal (ZEEL) (noun)
The eager, enthusiastic pursuit of something: Laurel had a special zeal for studying butterflies.
With great zeal, Monroe ate his first meal after a long fast.
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Confusing Words Clarified: Group M; Homonyms, Homophones, Homographs, Synonyms, Polysemes, etc. +
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“meal”
(Greek: groats, meal, porridge; soft, pasty materials)
(Latin: food; a meal)
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“meal”
1. Grass seed grown in an agricultural industry that is ground and used for food for both animals and humans: Marina's favorite hot cereal in the winter is a ground meal of twelve different grain seeds.
2. Food that is served and presented to be eaten: The meals that were available to the passengers on the ship provided a variety of choices.
3. Any of the occasions for eating food that occur by custom or habit at more or less fixed times: Adele and David were invited to join their friends for a meal the following evening.
4. Etymologies:
2. Food that is served and presented to be eaten: The meals that were available to the passengers on the ship provided a variety of choices.
3. Any of the occasions for eating food that occur by custom or habit at more or less fixed times: Adele and David were invited to join their friends for a meal the following evening.
4. Etymologies:
- meal: "food, time for eating", Old English mael, "fixed time, a measure, a meal".
- meal: "ground grain", Old English melu, from West Germanic melwan, "grind".
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English Words in Action, Group M
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