What's the difference between dish and meal?

Dish


Definition:

  • (n.) A vessel, as a platter, a plate, a bowl, used for serving up food at the table.
  • (n.) The food served in a dish; hence, any particular kind of food; as, a cold dish; a warm dish; a delicious dish. "A dish fit for the gods."
  • (n.) The state of being concave, or like a dish, or the degree of such concavity; as, the dish of a wheel.
  • (n.) A hollow place, as in a field.
  • (n.) A trough about 28 inches long, 4 deep, and 6 wide, in which ore is measured.
  • (n.) That portion of the produce of a mine which is paid to the land owner or proprietor.
  • (v. t.) To put in a dish, ready for the table.
  • (v. t.) To make concave, or depress in the middle, like a dish; as, to dish a wheel by inclining the spokes.
  • (v. t.) To frustrate; to beat; to ruin.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The only other black woman I see in the building: washing dishes behind a door that was supposed to have been locked.
  • (2) The menu has mainly Russian dishes but there are British and French influences too.
  • (3) The densities of hepatocytes attained with PVF were about 10 times as high as those in the monolayer culture using conventional collagen coated Petri dishes.
  • (4) The teflon dish is re-usable, resistant to sterilization procedures, and easy to assemble.
  • (5) A nine-year-old Scottish girl who attracted two million readers to a blog documenting her school lunches , consisting of unappealing and unhealthy dishes served up to pupils, has been forced to end the project after the council banned her from taking pictures of the food in school.
  • (6) Human melanocyte cultures were established using disaggregated epidermal cell suspensions derived from foreskins and plated onto culture dishes in medium containing 2% fetal bovine serum, growth factors, hormones, and melanocyte growth factor (MGF) extracted from bovine hypothalamus (Wilkins et al., J.Cell.
  • (7) 1: Good news It's been a scarce commodity throughout the Osborne chancellorship, but he will have a decent amount of it to dish round the chamber – notably lower inflation and higher growth than was being forecast a short while ago.
  • (8) Culture dishes precoated with thin layers of acid soluble rat tail collagen simplify conditions necessary to obtain in vitro high IgG anti-DNP responses from primed and boosted mice.
  • (9) These tacos, the legacy of the city's many Lebanese immigrants, a variation of shawarma , the grilled marinated meat dish popular throughout the Middle East.
  • (10) And on those occasions where I'm in the mood to take the wine pairing very seriously it's the vegetable dishes that require the most creative thought.
  • (11) To order your main course (from £7.50), squeeze through the tightly packed tables to the kitchen and select whatever catches your eye from an array of dishes that includes roast lamb, salmon with seafood risotto, stuffed cabbage, and sublime stuffed squid (£14), which comes with tomato rice studded with succulent octopus.
  • (12) Confluent monolayers of the fibroblasts were grown in petri dishes.
  • (13) To obtain the subcellular fractions, cell monolayers or cells previously detached from the culture dish were treated with non-ionic detergent N onidet P-40.
  • (14) Thus, human peripheral T lymphocytes coated with mouse monoclonal antibodies directed against the CD4 marker may be selectively and reproducibly removed from a lymphocyte population by a short incubation in modified plastic dishes coated with rabbit anti-mouse IgG antibody.
  • (15) The division block is independent of cell density in suspension culture and is not prevented by cell contact when cells grow attached to Petri dishes.
  • (16) Keratinocytes were plated onto tissue culture dishes using one of three basic serum-free media protocols; a) with no feeder layer in keratinocyte growth medium (KGM); b) onto mitomycin C-treated 3T3 mouse embryo fibroblasts; or c) onto mitomycin C-treated dermal human fibroblasts.
  • (17) Wide-eyed, tentative and much given to confidences – her voice falls to an eager whisper when she's really dishing – she seems far younger than her years.
  • (18) Moving away from home and discovering oats (not a common ingredient in Transylvanian food), I thought about mixing the cultures and came up with this savoury breakfast or lunch dish.
  • (19) Trypsinized epidermal cells were plated at nonconfluent concentrations in dishes coated with a collagen type I gel.
  • (20) We cultured thymic cells derived from various mouse strains on extracellular matrix coated tissue culture dishes, in the presence of conditioned medium.

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.