(n.) A portion of food taken at any time except at a regular meal; an informal or light repast, as between breakfast and dinner.
(v. i.) To take luncheon.
Example Sentences:
(1) Of 106 persons identified as eating the luncheon, 60 (56.6 per cent) became ill.
(2) On Day 3, they ate fish at the luncheon and dinner meals.
(3) We spoke with Sheypuk (DS) and Hammer (CH), who met at a cerebral palsy luncheon and became fast friends, about the show and their shared goal to change the fashion industry.
(4) Dr. Waugaman presented the information in this article to more than 700 students who attended a Student Luncheon on August 6.
(5) October 15, 2013 7.48pm BST Democratic Senators emerged from what some said was one of the most frustrated luncheon meetings they'd ever witnessed, Guardian Washington correspondent Paul Lewis (@ PaulLewis ) reports: A visibly angry Chuck Schumer, the third-ranking Democrat in the Senate, summarized the mood when he said John Boehner had killed the momentum that had gathered behind their bipartisan deal.
(6) An outbreak of Clostridium perfringens food poisoning occurred among attendees of a firehouse luncheon.
(7) And those 10 days always broke down the same way: we’d go out looking for exteriors, do pick-up shots and informal portraits at resorts or luncheons and then set up the big shoot in the house.” What was he like to work for?
(8) Lady Jekyll's "Luncheon for a Motor Excursion" from Kitchen Essays is a case in point; she paints a wonderful portrait of a picnic furnished with "the luncheon-basket from among the wedding presents of a richer age", and that essential thermos of mulled claret.
(9) December 8, 2014 At the luncheon, Kate met with several successful Britons living in New York, including actor Matthew Rhys.
(10) In occupational rehabilitation they are concerned with monthly luncheon, play entertainment games, go to movies, beauty parlors, ceramics, sewing activities, learning to read and write, and some parties in relevant national dates, all this at the hospital premises.
(11) The diplomats, we meet each other, we go to each other's receptions, we are sometimes invited by colleagues to attend a dinner or a working luncheon.
(12) Ammonia content in relation with sensory changes was studied in four kinds of meat cans (Pork in Natural Juice, Beef with Bacon, Luncheon Meat, and Liver Pâté), stored for 36 months under constant conditions (average temperature 21 degrees C. average relative humidity 73%).
(13) In the wake of the uproar, DeVos made a more concerted effort to acknowledge the barriers to education faced by African Americans while addressing a luncheon with HBCU leaders in Washington on Tuesday.
(14) The luncheon meat samples gave the lowest total bacterial counts and seemed to be free of coliforms.
(15) The incriminated meal was a salad buffet luncheon served on May 31.
(16) And now, Lady Diana having departed to that great Hons Cupboard in the sky, there remains only the octogenarian Duchess of Devonshire, the sprightliest literary luncheon-goer imaginable, and the only person I have ever met to have spoken to Hitler.
(17) If extended home care is not feasible, the creative diabetes educator will devise other educational opportunities, such as home videos, telephone support networks, special childbirth classes for women with gestational diabetes, and luncheon meetings at which nutritionally correct meals are served.
(18) (It was there I learned of a local hostess, a well-to-do lady with liberal intentions and a comically earnest air, who had thrown a luncheon at her penthouse "to rap about rape.")
(19) In 2014, Trump told a press luncheon that he “spoke, indirectly and directly, with President Putin, who could not have been nicer”.
(20) Black children reported more servings of eggs, luncheon meat, pork, poultry, and total protein than did white children.
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.