Meaning of "meal"

meal •

n.
• • 1. the food eaten or served at any one time: pagkain
  • 2. breakfast: almusal, agahan
  • 3. lunch: tanghalian, pananghalian
  • 4. supper, dinner: hapunan

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supper

n.
• • the evening meal: hapunan

spread

v.
• • 1. to stretch out, open out: umunat, iunat, magbuka, ibuka
  • 2. to extend, lie: maglatag, lumatag, ilatag, malatag, latagan
  • 3. to cover with a thin layer: magpahid, pahiran
  • 4. to put on in a thin layer: ipahid
  • 5. to scatter, distribute: magkalat, kumalat, ikalat, magpalaganap, lumaganap, palaganapin
  • 6. to move farther apart: magbuka, ibuka
  • 7. to set a table for a meal: maghanda ng mesa, ihanda ang mesa, maghain
  • 8. to spread oneself means to try to make a good impression: magpasikat
  • 9. to display ones abilities fully: magpakita (magpamalas) ng kakayahan
  • 10. to brag: maghambog, magmagaling
  • 11. to spread something in the sun to dry, e.g., rice, clothes, etc.: magbilad, ibilad

n.
• • 1. width: lapad
  • 2. extent: lawak, saklaw
  • 3. covering for a bed: kubrekama
  • 4. covering for a table: mantel
  • 5. something to spread on bread, etc.: pamahid
  • 6. food put on the table, a feast: hain, pagkaing nakahain, handa, bangkete

dinner

n.
• • 1. evening meal: hapunan
  • 2. a formal meal in honor of some person or occasion: salu-salo, bangkete, piging
  • 3. to take dinner, meaning to take supper (evening meal): maghapunan

course

n.
• • 1. series of studies: kurso
  • 2. direction taken: daan, pagdaraanan, daraanan, pinagdaraanan
  • 3. line of action, procedure: hakbang, paraan
  • 4. part of a meal served at one time: putahe
  • 5. of course, surely, certainly: talaga, tiyak, mangyari pa

picnic

n.
• • a trip or pleasure party, with a meal in the open air: piknik

particle

n.
• • 1. a very little bit: katiting, kapurit, maliit na butil
  • 2. particles of food left between teeth: tinga
  • 3. crumbs left on the table after a meal: mumo
  • 4. a prefix, a suffix, a preposition, a conjunction, an article, etc.: kataga, tipik

table

n.
• • 1. a piece of furniture having a smooth flat top on legs: mesa, lamesa, hapag
  • 2. a very low or short-legged table: dulang
  • 3. the food put on a table to be eaten: hain, pagkaing nasa mesa or simply: pagkain
  • 4. a list, very condensed information: talaan, hanay, talahanayan

v.
• • 1. to put on a table: maglagay (ilagay ) sa mesa
  • 2. to set the table, to prepare the table for a meal: maghain sa mesa, hainan ang mesa
  • 3. to table a bill or motion, to put off discussing it: ipagpaliban ang pag-uusap sa panukalang-batas o mungkahi
  • 4. to turn the tables, to reverse conditions: saliwain ang mga pangyayari (kalagayan)

restaurant

n.
• • a place to buy and eat a meal: restauran, restauran, karihan, karinderiya

dessert

n.
• • a course of sweets or fruit at the end of a meal: himagas, panghimagas, matamis

plate

n.
• • 1. a dish, usually round, that is almost flat: plato, pinggan
  • 2. small plate (sauce): platito
  • 3. food served to one person at a meal: isang platong pagkain, putahe
  • 4. dishes : mga pinggan
  • 5. a piece of metal or other form of material with false teeth set into it: pustiso
  • 6. a thin flat sheet or piece of metal: plantsa, ohas, pohas
  • 7. a thin, flat piece of metal on which something is engraved: klitse
  • 8. a thin sheet of glass coated with chemicals that are sensitive to light: plaka, negatibo
  • 9. in baseball, the homebase: hombeis, hombeys, lubigan, lubigang unan

v.
• • to cover with a thin layer of gold, silver or some other metal: magtubog (itubog) sa ginto (pilak)

snack

n.
• • a light meal: miryenda, merienda, mirindal

lunch

n.
• • a light meal, usually eaten in the middle of the day: tanghalian, pananghalian

v.
• • to take lunch: mananghali, mananghalian

tanghali

adj.
• • late (time), not early adv. late, high noon, midday tanghalian (-an)

n.
• • lunch, noon meal

v.
• • mananghali (mang-) to have lunch. Nananghali ka na ba? Did you have lunch already?

kubyertos

Sp n.
• • table-silver (spoon, fork, knife), a meal, as a unit or order in a restaurant, different from short orders

ulam

n.
• • main dish of a meal (viand as used in the Philippines).

diyeta

Sp n.
• • prescribed or regulated meal, diet

mumo

n.
• • particles of cooked rice falling off the dish during the meal

tahon

n.
• • Chinese mongo bean jelly or meal with syrup sold by Chinese peddlers, bean curd

hapunan

n.
• • dinner, supper, evening meal

v.
• • maghapunan (mag-) to have dinner. Naghapunan ka na ba? Have you had dinner yet?

kabesera

Sp n.
• • the head of a table (at meal time) [var. kabisera]