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flour

About 8.15 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun 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.
  2. noun 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.
  3. noun Powder of other material.
    almond flour
  4. noun Obsolete form of flower.
  5. verb To apply flour to something; to cover with flour.
    Flour the surface before rolling out the dough.
  6. verb To reduce to flour.
  7. verb To break up into fine globules of mercury in the amalgamation process.

Similar words

wheat fishmeal meal feed milling powder bonemeal fluorine fluoride fan

Often followed by

and is mills to in mill for or

Word family

floured flouring flourless flours floury

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