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main meal

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meanings of mainand meal


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main
adjective[before noun]
uk /meɪn/ us /meɪn/
larger, more important, or having more influence than others of the ...
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meal
noun
uk /mɪəl/ us /mɪəl/
an occasion when food is eaten, or the food that is eaten on such ...
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Examples of main meal


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The kitchen faces west, catching evening sun during preparation of the mainmeal.
It is a mainmeal, any way.
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The family's mainmeal was a daily takeaway.
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Following this old use, supper now is applied to the meal taken at the close of the day when the mainmeal, the dinner, is taken at midday.
I do not know what the abstract concept is in a cooked mainmeal.
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The present rate is about 1½ d. worth per mainmeal.
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For many children, the school dinner is their mainmeal of the day.
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First, the term "customary mainmeal"has been introduced in place of"substantial refreshment".
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I hope that we shall have an even more constructive mainmeal.
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Even now, it is the mainmeal of the day for some.
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In many instances, fish and chips provide the mainmeal for many families.
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Noon meal is the mainmeal.
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At least one meal should be hot and there should be a choice available for the mainmeal.
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For this reason, meals such as the one described have less bulk than would be appropriate to a mainmeal.
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It is a recognition that, for many children, the school lunch is their mainmeal of the day.
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However, they need help with cleaning the house, making a mainmeal, lighting fires, washing and maintenance of the garden.
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That is all very well as a soup course, but we want to get at the mainmeal.
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Fifthly, the residential requirement is now no longer bed and breakfast but bed and breakfast plus one mainmeal.
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I suggest that light refreshments, unless they are substantial, will not take the place of a mainmeal.
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The mainmeal is now often taken in the evening.
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Sometimes it is the only mainmeal in their diet.
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It is a savoury sauce served with a mainmeal.
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The voluntary fasting common today comprises a mainmeal with two smaller repasts called collations which not exceed the caloric total of the mainmeal.
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Cooking a mainmeal is very much an effort so that they just do not do it and suffer in consequence.
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Full-time employees are those who are normally expected to work more than 30 hours per week excluding mainmeal breaks and overtime.
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