What's the difference between cuisine and meal?

Cuisine


Definition:

  • (n.) The kitchen or cooking department.
  • (n.) Manner or style of cooking.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Both groups are served by about 17,000 restaurants, most of them proud of their contribution to what the city believes is the highest-quality and most diverse cuisine on the planet.
  • (2) Is haggis good?” he asked, curious about British cuisine.
  • (3) While breads might abound in the world's cuisine, whether they are employed as a means of making a reasonably tidy portable meal limns the sandwich classification.
  • (4) São Paulo restaurants creating a new Brazilian cuisine Read more Music matches each course on a playful menu that varies not just with the seasons, but with lunar cycles and Vidolin’s spiritual state, so we’re told.
  • (5) Nordestinos brought their hearty, meaty peasant cuisine with them, and one former factory worker, Jose Oliveira de Almeid, called simply Seu Ze, opened a small restaurant called Mocotó in the working-class suburb of Villa Medeiros.
  • (6) There are few undisputed champions in the restaurant business but I would argue that Vasco & Piero's Pavilion , a traditional osteria-style restaurant specialising in Umbrian cuisine, makes the best bowl of pasta in London.
  • (7) The lodge’s stylish restaurant, The Tree House, offers cuisine that blends the best of Peruvian, Asian, Italian and Latin American flavours.
  • (8) It’s more hard-wired than that; it’s crap but comforting cuisine, your first Meccano set, moral certainties, safety.
  • (9) He cooked it in his attic flat for a friend, an editor for the gourmands' bible Cuisine et Vins de France .
  • (10) The "fry" – or, as Café Conor call it, the "big breakfast" – is one of the foundations of Northern Irish cuisine.
  • (11) Jacques Cuisin, head of restoration at the museum, said the 3kg tusk did not have a great monetary worth, but it had major historical and scientific value and would be repaired.
  • (12) But I make choices about restaurants all the time, based on price, location, hours, parking, cuisine, quality, ambience etc.
  • (13) The meeting participants, having been warmed by the New Mexico sun and the chile-laden cuisine, now return to their laboratories determined to pursue not only the details of RNA biochemistry and molecular biology, but also the evolutionary implications of their work.
  • (14) And so if we were to say to them ‘you’ve got to change your diet’, they’d say ‘no, I can’t handle any more changes’.” This matters since food portions are no exception to the “everything’s bigger in Texas” cliche, while Houston’s location near Mexico and the deep south, its embrace of the Lone Star state’s love of barbecued red meat and its enormous variety of restaurants serving international cuisine combine to unhealthy effect.
  • (15) The typhoon shelter was famous for its restaurants' cuisine – including Under Bridge Spicy Crab – and it was a nightlife hub, alive with mahjong games and hired singers.
  • (16) Open daily 10am-2am Must-sees Marché Saint Quentin Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Alamy This historic covered food market, which opened in 1866, is the largest of its kind in Paris, with over 30 shops selling meat, fish and cheese alongside stands selling fresh dishes of Moroccan, African, Portuguese, and Italian cuisine that can be eaten at the tables in the centre.
  • (17) They flew in on a private Boeing 777 airliner complete with customised "Panda Express" livery; a bespoke cuisine of bamboo, apples, carrots and specially prepared "panda cake"; and private suites of Perspex and steel.
  • (18) Depending on your taste buds, you can’t go wrong with Cantonese food; Shanghainese fare tends to be sweeter; Yunnan and Xinjiang cuisine is heavier and well-spiced – the list is endless.
  • (19) He opened his restaurant La Tupiña , now an institution in the city for its classic south-western cuisine, in 1968, and has steadily been making additions ever since.
  • (20) Atala says his lightbulb moment came when he realised that, despite training in France and Italy, he would never, as a Brazilian, be able to cook those countries' cuisines (which dominate the fine-dining scene in São Paulo) as well as a native chef.

Meal


Definition:

  • (n.) A part; a fragment; a portion.
  • (n.) The portion of food taken at a particular time for the satisfaction of appetite; the quantity usually taken at one time with the purpose of satisfying hunger; a repast; the act or time of eating a meal; as, the traveler has not eaten a good meal for a week; there was silence during the meal.
  • (n.) Grain (esp. maize, rye, or oats) that is coarsely ground and unbolted; also, a kind of flour made from beans, pease, etc.; sometimes, any flour, esp. if coarse.
  • (n.) Any substance that is coarsely pulverized like meal, but not granulated.
  • (v. t.) To sprinkle with, or as with, meal.
  • (v. t.) To pulverize; as, mealed powder.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We have investigated a physiological role of endogenous insulin on exocrine pancreatic secretion stimulated by a liquid meal as well as exogenous secretin and cholecystokinin octapeptide (CCK-8) in conscious rats.
  • (2) Concentrations of several gastrointestinal hormonal peptides were measured in lymph from the cisterna chyli and in arterial plasma; in healthy, conscious pigs during ingestion of a meal.
  • (3) In vivo studies were performed in five healthy subjects for at least 3 h after ingestion of radiolabeled meals.
  • (4) The company, part of the John Lewis Partnership, now sources all its beef from the UK, including in its ready meals, sandwiches and fresh mince.
  • (5) In the present study we examined cholecystokinin release and gallbladder contraction after oral administration of a commercial fatty meal (Sorbitract; Dagra, Diemen, The Netherlands) using ultrasonography in eight normal subjects and eight gallstone patients before and after 1 and 4 weeks of treatment with ursodeoxycholic acid (10 mg kg-1.day-1).
  • (6) A 14-year-old case was reported with a primary postbulbar duodenal ulcer, which was confirmed by barium meal study and duodenoscopy.
  • (7) The absorption of zinc from meals based on 60 g of rye, barley, oatmeal, triticale or whole wheat was studied by use of extrinsic labelling with 65Zn and measurement of the whole-body retention of the radionuclide.
  • (8) Relaxation situations are marked by relaxation, usually after a meal.
  • (9) Retention of iron from an RKB test meal was increased from 69.6 to 73% when about 90% of the extractable tannins were removed, but the difference was not statistically significant.
  • (10) Regardless of the habitual diet, a test meal accentuated the rate of triacylglycerol appearance in whole plasma and in the very low density lipoproteins of Triton WR-1339-treated monkeys, and the rate of increase of the protein component after feeding was slightly higher.
  • (11) Gastric emptying curves for all three meals in controls were best described using loge transformed counts.
  • (12) There was no significant difference between ratings after the high and low-fibre meals except for fullness, which was greater after the high-fibre breakfast.
  • (13) Special attention is given to the arrangement of meals inflight.
  • (14) Compared to the doses taken before and after the meal, the dose taken with the meal showed a significant delay in the time taken to reach therapeutic blood concentrations of the drug with no reduction in the period of time during which this concentration was maintained.
  • (15) We compared the effects of meals containing the same amounts of either isolated soy or beef protein on acid secretion and serum gastrin concentration in normal humans.
  • (16) Preprandial and postprandial blood glucose levels were measured for each meal and snack (18 measurements per day).
  • (17) There was less of an increase following a blood meal infected with the rodent malaria parasite, Plasmodium berghei.
  • (18) In vivo hepatic rates of fatty acid and cholesterol synthesis determined in meal-fed normolipidemic rats were suppressed significantly by the oral administration of (--)-hydroxycitrate for 6 hr, when control animals exhibited maximal rates of lipid synthesis; serum triglyceride and cholesterol levels were significantly reduced by (--)-hydroxycitrate.
  • (19) On the other hand, esophageal emptying of solid isotopic meals may show the persistence of food in the diverticular sac long time after the meal.
  • (20) Our findings suggest that (a) the inclusion of a liquid meal provides a reproducible method of measuring orocaecal transit using the lactulose hydrogen breath test, (b) rapid small bowel transit in thyrotoxicosis may be one factor in the diarrhoea which is a feature of the disease and (c) if altered gut transit is the cause of sluggish bowel habit in hypothyroidism, delay in the colon, and not small bowel, is likely to be responsible.