Meal and Ration

Meal

Meal noun - Food eaten or prepared for eating at one time.

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Ration and meal are semantically related in food portion topic. In some cases you can use "Ration" instead a noun "Meal", when it comes to topics like dieting.

Nearby Words: meat, mealtime, mealed

Ration

Ration noun - A fixed portion that is allotted (especially in times of scarcity).

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Meal and ration are semantically related in food portion topic. Sometimes you can use "Meal" instead a noun "Ration", if it concerns topics such as dieting.

Nearby Words: rational, rationality, ratio, rationalism, rationally

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How words are described

normal	normal meal	normal ration
free	free meal	free ration
proper	proper meal	proper ration
actual	actual meal	actual ration
Other adjectives: traditional, larger, edible.

Both words in one sentence

The distant successor of Hardtack is the Meal, Ready to Eat (MRE) series of meals, the combat ration of the U.S.

Source: Masochist's Meal
Truth in Television: Nazi spies in Britain genuinely were that incompetent, and usually gave themselves away in similar situations (one example was a spy who tried to pay for a restaurant meal with ration coupons).

Source: Series / Private Schulz
The way the flameless ration heater of the Meal, Ready-to-Eat (MRE) works, it needs to be set at an incline over the ground to work properly; so naturally, the instructions◊ for it quite literally suggest that you raise one end on a "rock or something".

Source: Buffy Speak