Flour

Noun

 * 1) Powder obtained by grinding or milling cereal grains, especially wheat, and used to bake bread, cakes, and pastry.
 * 2) 🇺🇸 The food made by grinding and bolting cleaned wheat (not durum or ) 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) Powder of other material, e.g., wood flour produced by sanding wood.

Synonyms

 * plain flour, wheat flour, white flour

Verb

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

Adjectives for Flour
ill-mixed; unadulterated; unbolted; bleached.

Verbs for Flour
bag—; barrel—; bin—; bleach—; brush off —; cover with—; employ—; grade—; grind into—; manufacture—; mill—; mix with—; obtain—; pulverize into—; reduce to—; select—; sift—; sprinkle—; triturate into—; —dusts; —whitens.

Thesaurus
abrade, air pollution, alabaster, atomize, attritus, beat, besprinkle, bran, bray, bread, brecciate, chalk, comminute, contriturate, cosmic dust, crumb, crumble, crush, disintegrate, dot, dredge, driven snow, dust, dust ball, efflorescence, fallout, farina, filings, fleece, foam, fragment, grain, granulate, granulize, grate, grind, grind to powder, grits, groats, ivory, kittens, levigate, lily, lint, maggot, mash, meal, milk, mill, paper, pearl, pepper, pestle, pound, powder, pulverize, pussies, raspings, reduce to powder, sawdust, scrunch, shard, sheet, shred, silver, smash, smut, snow, soot, spatter, speck, speckle, splatter, spot, sprinkle, squash, stud, swan, triturate

Alternative forms

 * flower

Etymology
Spelled (until c.1830) and meaning "flower" in the sense of flour being the "finest part" of meal

The U.S. standard of identity comes from 21CFR137.105.

Noun

 * Afrikaans:
 * Albanian:
 * Aleut: mu-kak
 * Ancient Greek:
 * Arabic: طحين,
 * Armenian:
 * Old Armenian:
 * Azeri:
 * Bosnian:
 * Breton: bleud
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: farina
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Corsican:
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Filipino: arina
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek: αλεύρι
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Kannada:


 * Kinyarwanda: ifu
 * Korean: 밀가루,
 * Kurdish:
 * Latin:
 * Latvian: (1,2)
 * Lithuanian: miltai
 * Macedonian: брашно (brášno)
 * Navajo:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Old Church Slavonic:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Glagolitic:
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:,  (2),   (2)
 * Scottish Gaelic:, min
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: брашно
 * Roman: brašno
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: harina
 * Telugu: పిండి (pinDi)
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Urdu:
 * Uyghur: ئۇن
 * Vietnamese: ,
 * Welsh:


 * Greek: σκόνη
 * Korean:


 * Scottish Gaelic: min

Verb

 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * German: bemehlen
 * Greek:


 * Hungarian: belisztez, belisztez
 * Indonesian: tepung terigu
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: mjöla

Anagrams

 * fluor
 * four L

Noun

 * Ce fust en esté quant la flour [v]erdist e doint bon odour.
 * It was in the summer that the flowers bloomed and gave off a good odor.
 * It was in the summer that the flowers bloomed and gave off a good odor.

Noun

 * 1) flower

Etymology
From flos: <.

Noun

 * 1)  flower

Noun

 * 1) a flower
 * 2) a bouquet bunch of flowers
 * 3)  Wheat flour

Verb

 * 1) to embroider