Meawed vs Mealed - What's the difference?
meawed | mealed |
(meaw)
* Belgravia magazine (volume 45)
(meal)
(senseid)Food that is prepared and eaten, usually at a specific time (e.g. breakfast = morning meal, lunch = noon meal, etc).
* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author=(Henry Petroski)
, title= Food served or eaten as a repast.
* {{quote-magazine, year=2012, month=March-April, author=Anna Lena Phillips, volume=100, issue=2, page=172
, magazine=(American Scientist)
, title= The coarse-ground edible part of various grains often used to feed animals; flour.
* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author=(Henry Petroski)
, title= To defile or taint.
As verbs the difference between meawed and mealed
is that meawed is past tense of meaw while mealed is past tense of meal.meawed
English
Verb
(head)meaw
English
Noun
(en noun)- Was it a meaw I heard, and a scratching, or was it only the wind
mealed
English
Verb
(head)meal
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl), from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Geothermal Energy, volume=101, issue=4, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Energy has seldom been found where we need it when we want it. Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame. With more settled people, animals were harnessed to capstans or caged in treadmills to turn grist into meal.}}
Sneaky Silk Moths, passage=Last spring, the periodical cicadas emerged across eastern North America. Their vast numbers and short above-ground life spans inspired awe and irritation in humans—and made for good meals for birds and small mammals.}}
Hyponyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* make a meal of * meal mob * meal station * meal ticketEtymology 2
From (etyl) mele, from (etyl) . More at (l).Noun
(-)Geothermal Energy, volume=101, issue=4, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame. With more settled people, animals were harnessed to capstans or caged in treadmills to turn grist into meal .}}
Derived terms
* mealy * cornmeal * oatmealEtymology 3
Variation of mole (compare (etyl) mail), from (etyl) mole, mool, from (etyl) . More at (l).Verb
(en verb)- Were he meal'd with that / Which he corrects, than were he tyrannous. ? Shakespeare.