flour

CEFRA2

/ˈflaʊ.ə/

noun · verb

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A fine powder made from grain and used for baking.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    Powder of other material.

Examples

  • Bread is made from flour, water and yeast.

  • Bread is made from flour, water, and often yeast.

At a glance

Sits at A2 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
2
Citations
2
Synonyms
5

Also pronounced

  • [ˈflæʊ̯.ɚ] ~ [ˈflæʊ̯.ɹ̩]
  • [ˈflaʊ̯.ɚ] ~ [ˈflaʊ̯.ɹ̩]

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

verb

Extra meaning

  1. To apply flour to something; to cover with flour.

More examples

In context

  • Sift the flour and salt into a bowl.

  • mustard flour

  • that nobody is wished to see my dead body. & that no murnurs walk behind me at my funeral. & that no flours be planted on my grave.

Synonyms

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Origin

noun

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.