Flour vs. Meal

Flournoun

Powder obtained by grinding or milling cereal grains, especially wheat, or other foodstuffs such as soybeans and potatoes, and used to bake bread, cakes, and pastry.

Flournoun

The food made by grinding and bolting cleaned wheat (not durum or red durum) until it meets specified levels of fineness, dryness, and freedom from bran and germ, also containing any of certain enzymes, ascorbic acid, and certain bleaching agents.

Flournoun

Powder of other material.

Flournoun

obsolete form of flower

Flourverb

(transitive) To apply flour to something; to cover with flour.

Flourverb

(transitive) To reduce to flour.

Flourverb

(intransitive) To break up into fine globules of mercury in the amalgamation process.

Flournoun

The finely ground meal of wheat, or of any other grain; especially, the finer part of meal separated by bolting; hence, the fine and soft powder of any substance; as, flour of emery; flour of mustard.

Flourverb

To grind and bolt; to convert into flour; as, to flour wheat.

Flourverb

To sprinkle with flour.

Flournoun

fine powdery foodstuff obtained by grinding and sifting the meal of a cereal grain

Flourverb

cover with flour;

Flourverb

convert grain into flour

Flournoun

a powder obtained by grinding grain, typically wheat, and used to make bread, cakes, and pastry.

Flournoun

fine, soft powder obtained by grinding the seeds or roots of starchy vegetables

Flourverb

sprinkle (something, especially a work surface or cooking utensil) with a thin layer of flour.

Flourverb

grind (grain) into flour.

Flour

Flour is a powder made by grinding raw grains, roots, beans, nuts, or seeds. Flours are used to make many different foods.

Mealnoun

Food that is prepared and eaten, usually at a specific time, and usually in a comparatively large quantity (as opposed to a snack).

Mealnoun

Food served or eaten as a repast.

Mealnoun

(obsolete) A time or an occasion.

Mealnoun

The coarse-ground edible part of various grains often used to feed animals; flour or a coarser blend than flour.

Mealnoun

A speck or spot.

Mealnoun

A part; a fragment; a portion.

Mealverb

To yield or be plentiful in meal.

Mealverb

(transitive) To defile or taint.

Mealnoun

A part; a fragment; a portion.

Mealnoun

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.

Mealnoun

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.

Mealnoun

Any substance that is coarsely pulverized like meal, but not granulated.

Mealverb

To sprinkle with, or as with, meal.

Mealverb

To pulverize; as, mealed powder.

Mealnoun

the food served and eaten at one time

Mealnoun

any of the occasions for eating food that occur by custom or habit at more or less fixed times

Mealnoun

coarsely ground foodstuff; especially seeds of various cereal grasses or pulse

Meal

A meal is an eating occasion that takes place at a certain time and includes prepared food. The names used for specific meals in English vary, depending on the speaker's culture, the time of day, or the size of the meal.