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class="site-content"> <div id="primary" class="content-area"> <main id="main" class="site-main" role="main"> <article id="post-2089" class="post-2089 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-the-english-language tag-food-words tag-the-english-language tag-vocabulary"> <div class="entry-wrapper"> <header class="entry-header"> <h1 class="entry-title">A bite to eat</h1> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="posted-on">On <a href="https://dictionaryblog.cambridge.org/2012/12/20/a-bite-to-eat/" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date published" datetime="2012-12-20T09:00:17+00:00">December 20, 2012</time><time class="updated" datetime="2013-02-21T17:21:16+00:00">February 21, 2013</time></a></span><span class="byline"> By <span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="https://dictionaryblog.cambridge.org/author/katewoodford/">Kate Woodford</a></span></span><span class="cat-links">In <a href="https://dictionaryblog.cambridge.org/category/the-english-language/" rel="category tag">the English language</a></span> </div> </header> <div class="entry-content"> <p><img data-recalc-dims="1" fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" data-attachment-id="2099" data-permalink="https://dictionaryblog.cambridge.org/2012/12/20/a-bite-to-eat/toast/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/dictionaryblog.cambridge.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/toast.jpg?fit=2676%2C2482&ssl=1" data-orig-size="2676,2482" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":""}" data-image-title="toast" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/dictionaryblog.cambridge.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/toast.jpg?fit=300%2C278&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/dictionaryblog.cambridge.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/toast.jpg?fit=640%2C594&ssl=1" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-2099" alt="toast" src="https://i0.wp.com/dictionaryblog.cambridge.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/toast.jpg?resize=300%2C278" width="300" height="278" />by <a href="http://dictionaryblog.cambridge.org/kate-woodford/" target="_blank">Kate Woodford</a></p> <p>With Christmas Day just a week away, many of us are now planning and shopping for the many <b>meals</b> that we will share with family and friends during <a href="http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/the-holiday-season?q=holiday+season" target="_blank">the holiday season</a>. With food in mind, we’re going to take a look at the words that we use to describe different types of meals and the occasions on which those meals are eaten.</p> <p>Your <b>main meal</b> is the<i> biggest</i> meal of the day, whenever that is eaten. <a href="http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/meal_1?q=meal" target="_blank">Meals </a>generally are described as <b>big</b>, (<i>I had a really big breakfast.)</i> or <b>light </b><i>(I usually have a fairly light lunch – a sandwich or something.)</i>. A small amount of food that you eat between meals is often called a <b>snack</b>. ‘<a href="http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/snack_1?q=snack" target="_blank">Snack</a>’ is also used as a verb:<i> Try to stop your children snacking between meals. / Snack <b>on</b> dried fruit instead of crisps and chocolate. </i>The verb <b>graze</b> is also used to mean ‘to eat small amounts frequently’: <i>Isabel doesn’t really eat proper meals – she just <a href="http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/graze_2" target="_blank">grazes</a> all day. </i><b>A bite</b> or <b>a bite to eat</b> is a light meal, especially one that you eat quickly: <i>We could <b>grab a bite</b> in town before we go to the cinema. / Do we have time to <b>get a bite to eat</b>?<span id="more-2089"></span></i></p> <p>In the summer months, a <b>picnic</b> is a meal that you take to eat outside, usually in the countryside or a place such as a park: <i>We <b>had</b> a <a href="http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/picnic_1?q=picnic" target="_blank">picnic</a> down by the river.</i> A <b>barbecue</b>, (also <b>BBQ</b>), is also a meal that you eat outside, often in a garden, where the food is cooked on a metal frame over a fire. (The frame itself is also called a <a href="http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/barbecue?q=barbecue" target="_blank">barbecue</a>.)</p> <p>A <i>(UK) </i><b>packed lunch / </b><i>(US) </i><b>box lunch</b> is a light meal that you put in a container, and take with you to school or work to eat later. Office workers who do not stop work in order to have lunch often say that they have a sandwich <b>at their desk</b>. A <i>(UK) </i><b>school dinner</b> is a meal that a school gives to children at lunchtime: <i>Do your kids have school dinners or packed lunches?</i></p> <p>Party meals have their own language. <b>Canapés</b> are small biscuits or pieces of bread with savoury food on top, such as cheese, fish or meat. They are often served with drinks, before or instead of a meal. Crisps and nuts and other snacks that people offer with drinks are sometimes informally called <b>nibbles</b>. A <b>buffet </b>is a meal where different dishes are put on a table and people choose what to put on their plates, usually before moving away from the table. A <b>sit-down</b> meal, meanwhile, is one that is served to people who are already sitting at a table: <i>Are you having a<a href="http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/sit-down_2?q=sit-down" target="_blank"> sit-down </a>meal or a buffet at the wedding? </i>A <b>dinner party</b> is an evening meal in someone’s home, to which a small number of people are invited <i>I’m <b>having/giving </b>a dinner party next week. </i>Instead of using this phrase, however, people often simply say that they <b>have </b>people<b> round/over for dinner</b>: <i>We’re having Sophie and Rick over for dinner on Saturday</i>.</p> <p>Of course, the consequence of too many<a href="http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/nibble_2" target="_blank"> nibbles</a>, snacks and party food during the holiday season is that come New Year, people sometimes find that they are a little <strong>bigger</strong>! 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By the way, the article is very helpful. Thank you.</p> <div class='jetpack-comment-likes-widget-wrapper jetpack-likes-widget-unloaded' id='like-comment-wrapper-18458032-6543-67b3b173be5b2' data-src='https://widgets.wp.com/likes/#blog_id=18458032&comment_id=6543&origin=dictionaryblog.cambridge.org&obj_id=18458032-6543-67b3b173be5b2' data-name='like-comment-frame-18458032-6543-67b3b173be5b2'> <div class='likes-widget-placeholder comment-likes-widget-placeholder comment-likes'><span class='loading'>Loading...</span></div> <div class='comment-likes-widget jetpack-likes-widget comment-likes'><span class='comment-like-feedback'></span><span class='sd-text-color'></span><a class='sd-link-color'></a></div> </div> </div> <div class="comment-metadata"> <a href="https://dictionaryblog.cambridge.org/2012/12/20/a-bite-to-eat/#comment-6543"> <time datetime="2013-02-06T00:08:44+00:00"> February 6, 2013 at 12:08 am </time> </a> <span class="reply"><a rel="nofollow" class="comment-reply-link" href="#comment-6543" data-commentid="6543" data-postid="2089" data-belowelement="div-comment-6543" data-respondelement="respond" data-replyto="Reply to tcmaster" aria-label="Reply to tcmaster">Reply</a></span> </div> </article> <ol class="children"> <li id="comment-6774" class="comment even depth-2"> <article id="div-comment-6774" class="comment-body"> <footer class="comment-meta"> <div class="comment-author vcard"> <img alt='' src='https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/aef1e4cb2fd31e8f50444ca18ada3b49?s=60&d=identicon&r=g' srcset='https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/aef1e4cb2fd31e8f50444ca18ada3b49?s=120&d=identicon&r=g 2x' class='avatar avatar-60 photo' height='60' width='60' loading='lazy' decoding='async'/> <b class="fn"><a href="http://cambridgewords.wordpress.com" class="url" rel="ugc external nofollow">Cambridge Words</a></b> </div> </footer> <div class="comment-content"> <p>Well spotted! The simple explanation is that you can use ‘at’ with ‘occasion’ when it is more in the ‘event’ sense rather than the ‘time’ sense, particularly when it could be replaced by ‘gathering’. But it’s safer, if you’re not sure, to use ‘on’, so I’ve changed it in the blog post. 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