What's the difference between meal and starter?

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.

Starter


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, starts; as, a starter on a journey; the starter of a race.
  • (n.) A dog that rouses game.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Very little inhibition occurred if the inhibitory strain was added together with the starter culture.
  • (2) It’s not an entirely controversy-free choice, considering that Harden hasn’t been a starter for more than two seasons, doesn’t have the best track record as far as being a team player goes and at times has been bad enough on defense that you could make an entire YouTube playlist devoted entirely to clips of him failing to make any defensive effort whatsoever.
  • (3) Day-old broiler type chicks were fed a practical starter ration for three weeks, sacrificed and the D-3-phosphoglycerate dehydrogenase (E.C.1.1.1.s), phosphoserine phosphatase (E.C.3.1.3.3.
  • (4) Press treatment of the McCann family following the tragic disappearance of their daughter Madeleine, for starters.
  • (5) They not only started the season with journeyman windmill dunk specialist Gerald Green on their roster – he was one of Phoenix's starters.
  • (6) But tangled up in its visions of thousands of new “starter homes” – 5,000 more of which were promised on Monday, when the government said it was going to directly commission housebuilding on five sites in the south of England – are an array of drastic measures aimed at what remains of England’s council homes.
  • (7) Streptococci were isolated from Italian dry sausage manufactured commercially with and without added starter cultures.
  • (8) Under these conditions, 7 pediococci, 16 lactobacilli, and 18 commercial meat starter cultures were successfully analyzed by plate count to yield a differential assessment of the lactobacilli and pediococci present without interference from the 9 other genera tested.
  • (9) They say it is easier than knitting a scarf, the typical starter project for novices.
  • (10) It is suggested that this carbohydrate facilitates the adhesion of starter bacteria to the cheese-curd matrix and that during the initial stages of syneresis this serves to prevent their expulsion from the curd with the whey.
  • (11) These data clearly show that after fresh yogurt ingestion, viable starter culture reaches the duodenum and contains beta-galactosidase activity.
  • (12) A Home Office source said: “This is a complete non-starter.
  • (13) The starter homes should cost no more than £450,000 in London and no more than £250,000 outside the capital.
  • (14) Gellatly believes that anyone can make their own bread at home and, for a sourdough loaf, the process begins with a tangy starter (sometimes also known as a mother or leaven).
  • (15) The non-proteinogenic amino acid may serve as precursor of cyclopentenyl fatty acids via aleprolic acid, the starter molecule for these long-chain compounds.
  • (16) Fielder has accounted for more outs in this series than some of the Sox starters.
  • (17) We will make these starter homes 20 per cent cheaper by exempting them from a raft of taxes and by using brownfield land.
  • (18) When you take out a share of those 31 homes for shared ownership, 80% market rent homes, and starter homes, each of which developers will prioritise as they are more lucrative, the number left for genuinely affordable social rent is minuscule, if it exists at all.
  • (19) The future is defined by the same old atavistic carnage as ever – which is, as Rosenbaum says, “an ingenious form of doublethink echoed in the very premise of a fantasy of the future beginning with “A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away ...” Star Wars cast feel the Force after watching new trailer Read more I don’t hate Star Wars – I love the puppetry, just for starters, and all those beautifully dirty, scum-caked robots.
  • (20) Bill-O said that there were roughly 200 more white police shooting victims in 2013 than black police shooting victims, but that argument’s a non-starter when you consider there are about 185 million more white people in the United States , even if you call the problem “minuscule” .