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flour.

Powder obtained by grinding or milling cereal grains, especially wheat, or other foodstuffs such as soybeans and potatoes, and used to bake bread, cakes, and pastry.

5 characters1 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈflaʊ.ə/Received-Pronunciation[ˈflaʊ̯.ə]Received-Pronunciation/ˈflæʊ.ə/[ˈflæʊ̯.ə]
  1. Powder obtained by grinding or milling cereal grains, especially wheat, or other foodstuffs such as soybeans and potatoes, and used to bake bread, cakes, and pastry.

    uncountable · usually
  2. The food made by grinding and bolting cleaned wheat (not durum or red durum) until it meets specified levels of fineness, dryness, and freedom from bran and germ, also containing any of certain enzymes, ascorbic acid, and certain bleaching agents.

    uncountable · usually
  3. Powder of other material.

    uncountable · usually
    mustard flour
  4. Obsolete form of flower.

    alt-of · obsolete · uncountable · usually
Where this word comes from

Spelled (until about 1830) and meaning flower in the sense of flour being the "finest portion of ground grain" (compare French fleur de farine, fine fleur). Doublet of fleur, flor, and flower. Partially displaced native meal. The U.S. standard of identity comes from 21CFR137.105.

verb/ˈflaʊ.ə/Received-Pronunciation[ˈflaʊ̯.ə]Received-Pronunciation/ˈflæʊ.ə/[ˈflæʊ̯.ə]
  1. To apply flour to something; to cover with flour.

    transitive
    Flour the surface before rolling out the dough.
  2. To reduce to flour.

    transitive
  3. To break up into fine globules of mercury in the amalgamation process.

    intransitive
Where this word comes from

Spelled (until about 1830) and meaning flower in the sense of flour being the "finest portion of ground grain" (compare French fleur de farine, fine fleur). Doublet of fleur, flor, and flower. Partially displaced native meal. The U.S. standard of identity comes from 21CFR137.105.

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