Definition of Flour

1. Verb. Cover with flour. "Flour fish or meat before frying it"

Category relationships: Cookery, Cooking, Preparation
Generic synonyms: Dredge

2. Noun. Fine powdery foodstuff obtained by grinding and sifting the meal of a cereal grain.
Generic synonyms: Food Product, Foodstuff
Specialized synonyms: Plain Flour, Wheat Flour, Soy Flour, Soybean Flour, Soybean Meal, Semolina
Substance meronyms: Pastry, Bread, Breadstuff, Staff Of Life, Dough
Derivative terms: Floury

3. Verb. Convert grain into flour.
Generic synonyms: Convert

Definition of Flour

1. n. The finely ground meal of wheat, or of any other grain; especially, the finer part of meal separated by bolting; hence, the fine and soft powder of any substance; as, flour of emery; flour of mustard.

2. v. t. To grind and bolt; to convert into flour; as, to flour wheat.

Definition of Flour

1. Noun. Powder obtained by grinding or milling cereal grains, especially wheat, and used to bake bread, cakes, and pastry. ¹

2. Noun. Powder of other material, e.g., wood flour produced by sanding wood. ¹

3. Noun. (obsolete form of flower) ¹

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

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Flour

1. to cover with flour (a finely ground meal of grain) [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Flour

flouncier
flounciest
flouncily
flouncing
flouncingly
flouncings
flouncy
flounder
floundered
flounderer
flounderers
floundering
flounderingly
flounderlike
flounders
flour (current term)
flour beetle
flour bin
flour corn
flour gold
flour mill
flour treatment agent
flour treatment agents
flour weevil
floured
flourier
flouriest
flourily
flourine
flouriness

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