Freebase(5.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition: Meal. A meal is an instance of eating, specifically one that takes place at a specific time and includes specific, prepared food. Meals occur primarily at homes, restaurants, and cafeterias, but may occur anywhere.
An en dash (â) is most commonly used to indicate a range of numbers. It is longer than a hyphen although a hyphen with spaces surrounding it can be used if a dash is not available. In Microsoft Word, doing this will automatically change the hyphen into an en dash. (Example: August 13âAugust 18, or pages 29â349. Note that there should be no space around the en dash.)
Our typewriter and computer keyboards lack individual keys that display either of the dashes. (The symbol above the hyphen is an underline, not a dash.) Before word processing, we had to type an em dash by typing two hyphens.e use the em dash to create a strong break in the structure of a sentence. Dashes can be used in pairs like parentheses that is, to enclose a word, or a phrase, or a clause or they can be used alone to detach one end of a sentence from the main body.