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.
Noun 3 meanings
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.
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.
Powder of other material.
“mustard flour”
Verb 3 meanings
To apply flour to something; to cover with flour.
“Flour the surface before rolling out the dough.”
To reduce to flour.
To break up into fine globules of mercury in the amalgamation process.
Etymology
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.S.105.
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FLOUR at a glance
FLOUR has 5 letters and scores 8 points in Scrabble (F 4 + L 1 + O 1 + U 1 + R 1) and 10 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #7,023 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with flour
All rhymesOne letter away
- FLOOR8
- FLOUT8
- CLOUR7
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