Flour

Quick meaning: Flour is a noun meaning Powder of other material.

Meaning

Powder of other material.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To apply flour to something; to cover with flour.
2. (transitive) To reduce to flour.
3. (intransitive) To break up into fine globules of mercury in the amalgamation process.
4. 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. (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.
6. Obsolete form of flower.

Example Sentences

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.

Everything a living animal could do to destroy and to desecrate bed and walls had been done. […] A canister of flour from the kitchen had been thrown at the looking-glass and lay like trampled snow over the remains of a decent blue suit with the lining ripped out which lay on top of the ruin of a plastic wardrobe.

Word Forms

• flours
• flower
• flouring
• floured

Synonyms for flour

Depending on context, synonyms include smeddum, wheatmeal.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include wheat, fishmeal, meal, feed, milling, powder.

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