flour

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Synonyms: lour, flout, floor, floud, four, flohr, flor, fleur, glour, clour, floue

Antonyms: lour, flout, floor, floud, four, flohr, flor, fleur, glour, clour, floue

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Noun

1. {{senseid|en|Q36465}}[[powder|Powder]] obtained by [[grind]]ing or [[mill]]ing [[cereal]] [[grain]]s, especially [[wheat]], or other [[foodstuff]]s such as [[soybean]]s and [[potato]]es, and used to bake [[bread]], [[cake]]s, and [[pastry]].
2. {{lb|en|US|_|standard of identity}} The food made by [[grind]]ing and {{ll|en|bolt|bolting|id=flour}} 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 [[enzyme]]s, [[ascorbic acid]]{{,}} and certain bleaching agents.
3. Powder of other material.
4. {{obsolete form of|en|flower}}.

Verb

1. {{lb|en|transitive}} To apply flour to something; to cover with flour.
2. {{lb|en|transitive}} To reduce to flour.
3. {{lb|en|intransitive}} To break up into fine [[globule]]s of [[mercury]] in the [[amalgamation]] process.

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