(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.
Tiffin
Definition:
(n.) A lunch, or slight repast between breakfast and dinner; -- originally, a Provincial English word, but introduced into India, and brought back to England in a special sense.
Example Sentences:
(1) Miller, the former husband of Angelina Jolie, is from Kingston, Surrey, and was educated at Tiffin, a local grammar school.
(2) Tony Rice, a Ferguson resident and protester, said “the shots came from up Tiffin Avenue” – an upwards-sloping street directly opposite the police department.
(3) Two unmarked police cars pulled up near the corner of Clark and Tiffin.
(4) Tony Rice, a Ferguson resident and protester, said: “The shots came from up Tiffin Avenue” – an upwards-sloping street directly opposite the police department.
(5) Lunch for thousands of office workers in Mumbai is the opposite of what takeaway means for most of us – a network of couriers known as dabbawalas collect tiffin boxes packed with home-cooked food from about 200,000 homes every day and deliver them to workers.
(6) • artigianopdx.com Tiffin Asha Tiffin Asha, Portland Photograph: Marina O'Loughlin for the Guardian Foodie author Karen Brooks says: "Only Portland can offer you pakora-fried chicken wrapped in a dosa and served from a colourful food cart window.
(7) Karen's recommendation is to try Tiffin Asha , at North Beech Street, on an arty stretch of historic Mississippi Avenue (a rare, non-pod cart).
(8) Next runs 14-18 June, scandoir.com Heavenly Himalayas, India Facebook Twitter Pinterest Run by Tamsin Chubb, founder of popular Little French Retreat, this fabulous adventure features a two-hour classical hatha yoga class each morning, plus mountain walks, tiffin-style packed lunches, sunset meditation and workshops on local bio-diversity, organic farming, cooking and yoga philosophy.
(9) On Tiffin Avenue, which slopes uphill away from the Ferguson police department, life goes on with contrasting scenes of normalcy and oddness.
(10) So does India's Subodh Gupta, who makes various $1m skulls, wheels and nuclear explosions out of amalgamations of Indian tiffin cookware.