Meal vs. Bran — What's the Difference?

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.

Bran, also known as miller's bran, is the hard outer layers of cereal grain. It consists of the combined aleurone and pericarp.

The edible whole or coarsely ground grains of a cereal grass.

A gigantic Celtic hero and ruler of Britain. After he was mortally wounded in battle, his head was buried in London, where it served as a protection against invaders.

A granular substance produced by grinding.

The outer layers of the grain of cereals such as wheat, removed during the process of milling and used as a source of dietary fiber.

The food served and eaten in one sitting.

The broken coat of the seed of wheat, rye, or other cereal grain, separated from the flour or meal by sifting or bolting; the coarse, chaffy part of ground grain.

A customary time or occasion of eating food.

(ornithology) The European carrion crow.

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The broken coat of the seed of wheat, rye, or other cereal grain, separated from the flour or meal by sifting or bolting; the coarse, chaffy part of ground grain.

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The European carrion crow.

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Broken husks of the seeds of cereal grains that are separated from the flour by sifting

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

Food prepared from the husks of cereal grains

(countable) Food served or eaten as a repast.

A break taken by a police officer in order to eat.

(obsolete) A time or an occasion.

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

A speck or spot.

A part; a fragment; a portion.

To yield or be plentiful in meal.

(transitive) To defile or taint.

A part; a fragment; a portion.

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.

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.

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

To sprinkle with, or as with, meal.

To pulverize; as, mealed powder.

The food served and eaten at one time

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

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