meal

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Food that is prepared and eaten, usually at a specific time, and usually in a comparatively large quantity. countable
    — Breakfast is the morning meal, lunch is the noon meal, and dinner, or supper, is the evening meal.
  2. The ground-up edible part of various grains, used as a basis of food or feed; either flour or a coarser blend than flour (usage varies). countable,uncountable
    — Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame. With more settled people, animals were harnessed to capstans or caged in treadmills to turn grist into meal.
  3. A speck or spot. UK,dialectal
  4. Food served or eaten as a repast. countable
    — a1450, The Macro Playsː If thou wilt fare well at meat and meal, come and follow me.
  5. Any of various similarly granular materials prepared from other sources, such as bones or wood. countable,uncountable
  6. A part; a fragment; a portion.
  7. A break taken by a police officer in order to eat. informal,uncountable
    — They [tape recorders] can be turned off while officers are on meal or in the car to protect their private conversations […]
  8. Any of various other granular or powdery materials, either ground by humans or occurring in nature, named figuratively after a resemblance to grain meal. countable,uncountable
  9. A time or an occasion. countable,obsolete
    — Ye wolde wepe at every mele; But for my sone wepe ye never a dele. You would weep at every meal, but for my son you never weep a deal.
动词 v.
  1. To yield or be plentiful in meal. intransitive,obsolete
    — Of course the yield of grain was small, but much greater than could have been expected; and, the ears being well filled, it mealed well. The pastures were burnt up, so that there was nothing left for the cattle to eat.
  2. To defile or taint. transitive
    — Were he meal'd with that / Which he corrects, than were he tyrannous.

词形变化

meals plural meals plural meals present,singular,third-person mealing participle,present mealed participle,past mealed past meals plural meals present,singular,third-person mealing participle,present mealed participle,past mealed past

词汇关系

近义词
meal mese refection repast
上位词
food event
下位词
afternoon tea andersmeat barbecue breakfast brunch collation dinner lunch luncheon midnight feast midnight snack picnic snack supper tea undermeal undern
衍生词
barium meal box meal cat in the meal-tub cheat meal daymeal enjoy your meal family meal full-course meal guestmeal happy meal Indian meal moth intermeal intrameal last meal main meal make a meal of make a meal out of malt-o-meal -meal meal deal mealer meal marker meal prep mealprep meal station Meal Team Six meal ticket mealtide mealtime meal voucher mealware microwave meal midmeal miss-meal colic night meal nonmeal packed meal plate meal postmeal premeal ready meal school meal square meal struggle meal Thomas meal undermeal mealless barleymeal beanmeal bearmeal beremeal bloodmeal bonemeal bone meal branmeal bread meal cornmeal cottonseed meal cracker meal leafmeal maizemeal mealbag meal-poke mealie meal mealman mealmonger meal moth meal-mouthed mealworm mealworm beetle mealy mielie meal milletmeal mountain meal nutmeal oatmeal peameal peasemeal ricemeal rockmeal ryemeal soymeal speltmeal stonemeal watermeal wheatmeal wholemeal witch-meal woodmeal
相关词
chips with everything meat and three meat and two veg meat and potatoes :Category:Meals
部分词
foodstuff drink

词源

词源 1
From Middle English mel, from Old English mǣl (“measure, time, occasion, set time, time for eating, meal”), from Proto-West Germanic *māl, from Proto-Germanic *mēlą, from Proto-Indo-European *meh₁- (“to measure”).
Cognate with West Frisian miel, Dutch maal (“meal, time, occurrence”), German Mal (“time”), Mahl (“meal”), Norwegian Bokmål mål (“meal”), Swedish mål (“meal”); and (from Proto-Indo-European) with Ancient Greek μέτρον (métron, “measure”), Latin mensus, Russian ме́ра (méra, “measure”), Lithuanian mẽtas. Related to Old English mǣþ (“measure, degree, proportion”).
词源 2
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *melh₂-der.
Proto-Germanic *melwą
Proto-West Germanic *melu
Old English melu
Middle English mele
English meal
From Middle English mele, from Old English melu (“meal, flour”), from Proto-West Germanic *melu, from Proto-Germanic *melwą (“meal, flour”), from Proto-Indo-European *melh₂- (“to grind, mill”).
Cognates
Cognate with West Frisian moal, Dutch meel, German Mehl, Albanian miell, Proto-Slavic *melvo (“grain to be ground”) (Bulgarian мливо (mlivo)), Dutch malen (“to grind”), German mahlen (“to grind”), Old Irish melim (“I grind”), Latin molō (“to grind”), Tocharian A/B malywët (“you press”)/melye (“they tread on”), Lithuanian málti, Old Church Slavonic млѣти (mlěti), Ancient Greek μύλη (múlē, “mill”). More at mill.
词源 3
Variation of mole (compare Scots mail), from Middle English mole, mool, from Old English māl, mǣl (“spot, mark, blemish”), from Proto-Germanic *mailą (“wrinkle, spot”), from Proto-Indo-European *mey- (“to soil”). More at mole.
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