flour

== English == === Alternative forms === flower (obsolete) === 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. The U.S. standard of identity comes from 21CFR137.105. === Pronunciation === (UK) enPR: flou'ər IPA(key): /ˈflaʊ̯.ə/ (US, Canada) IPA(key): /ˈflaʊ̯.ɚ/ (India) enPR: flär IPA(key): /flaː(r)/ (Singapore) enPR: flär IPA(key): /flɑː/ (Philippines) IPA(key): /fləɹ/, /flɑɹ/ Rhymes: -aʊə(ɹ) Homophone: flower (for people who pronounce flour as two syllables or flower as one) === Noun === flour (usually uncountable, plural flours) 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. Hyponyms: cornflour, rice flour, rye flour, wheatflour, wheat flour; beanflour; bread flour, pastry flour, all-purpose flour, self-raising flour, self-rising flour Coordinate term: meal (precisely coordinate; broadly synonymous) (US standards of identity) 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. Synonyms: smeddum, plain flour, wheat flour, wheatmeal, white flour Powder of other material. Hyponyms: wood flour; glacial flour, rock flour mustard flour Obsolete form of flower. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== → Drehu: falawa → Māori: parāoa → Palauan: blauang → West Uvean: falawa ==== Translations ==== ==== See also ==== bran farina meal smeddum wheatmeal === Verb === flour (third-person singular simple present flours, present participle flouring, simple past and past participle floured) (transitive) To apply flour to something; to cover with flour. (transitive) To reduce to flour. (intransitive) To break up into fine globules of mercury in the amalgamation process. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === References === === Anagrams === fluor, fluor-, four L, furol, orful, rufol == Cornish == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): [fluːɹ] === Etymology 1 === From Middle English flour (“flower”), from Anglo-Norman flur, from Latin flōs, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₃- (“to thrive, bloom”). Compare Welsh fflŵr. Doublet of bleujen. ==== Alternative forms ==== flowr ==== Noun ==== flour m (plural flourys) (botany) flower Synonym: bleujen ===== Derived terms ===== === Etymology 2 === From English floor, from Proto-West Germanic *flōr, from Proto-Germanic *floraz, from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂ros, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂-. Doublet of leur. ==== Noun ==== flour m (plural flouryow) deck === Etymology 3 === Possibly from Etymology 1. ==== Adjective ==== flour perfect Synonym: perfydh elite Synonym: gorbryvylejek eminent Synonyms: a vri, meur a vri ===== Derived terms ===== == Middle English == === Etymology 1 === Borrowed from Anglo-Norman flur, from Latin flōrem, accusative of flōs. More at flower. ==== Alternative forms ==== fflour, fflowr, fleur, flor, floure, flower, flowr, flowre, flowyr, flur ==== Pronunciation ==== IPA(key): /fluːr/ ==== Noun ==== flour (plural floures) A flower (often representing impermanence or beauty) A depiction or likeness of a flower. A virtue or benefit; something desirable: That which is unparalleled; the top or most superior. An exemplar or example of a trait or behaviour. Success or achievement in a contest; victoriousness. Flour (i.e. the best part of a grain) A powder; especially one which is white like flour. A woman's menstruation/period. (rare) Virginity; sexual abstinence. ===== Related terms ===== flourdelis flouren flourynge floury lilie flour ===== Descendants ===== English: flower, flour Ottawa Valley: flouer, floor West Riding: flaar Scots: flouer, flour, floor → Middle Welsh: fflwr Welsh: fflŵr ===== References ===== === Etymology 2 === ==== Noun ==== flour alternative form of flor == Occitan == === Noun === flour f (plural flours) (Mistralian) alternative spelling of flor (“flower”) == Old French == === Noun === flour oblique singular, f (oblique plural flours, nominative singular flour, nominative plural flours) alternative form of flor == Romansh == === Noun === flour f (plural flours) (Surmiran) alternative form of flur (“flower”) == Scots == === Alternative forms === flouer === Etymology === From Middle English flour, from Anglo-Norman flur, from Latin flōrem, accusative of flōs. More at English flower. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈfluːr/ === Noun === flour (plural flours) a flower a bouquet (bunch of flowers) (uncountable) Wheat flour === Verb === flour (third-person singular simple present flours, present participle flourin, simple past and past participle flourt) to embroider