course vs meal

course and meal both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
course	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
meal	Yes	No	No	No

course (noun)	meal (noun)
a mode of action	the food served and eaten at one time
education imparted in a series of lessons or meetings	coarsely ground foodstuff; especially seeds of various cereal grasses or pulse
facility consisting of a circumscribed area of land or water laid out for a sport	any of the occasions for eating food that occur by custom or habit at more or less fixed times
(construction) a layer of masonry
part of a meal served at one time
a connected series of events or actions or developments
a body of students who are taught together
general line of orientation
a line or route along which something travels or moves

course (adverb)	meal (adverb)
as might be expected