Word forms: plural, 3rd person singular presenttense flours, present participle flouring, past tense, past participle floured
1. variable noun
Flour is a white or brown powder that is made by grinding grain. It is used to make bread, cakes, and pastry.
2. verb
If you flour cooking equipment or food, you cover it with flour.
Lightly flour a rolling pin. [VERB noun]
Remove the dough from the bowl and put it on a floured surface. [VERB-ed]
flour in British English
(ˈflaʊə)
noun
1.
a powder, which may be either fine or coarse, prepared by sifting and grinding the meal of a grass, esp wheat
2.
any finely powdered substance
verb
3. (transitive)
to make (grain) into flour
4. (transitive)
to dredge or sprinkle (food or cooking utensils) with flour
5.
(of mercury) to break into fine particles on the surface of a metal rather than amalgamating, or to produce such an effect on (a metal). The effect is caused by impurities, esp sulphur
Derived forms
floury (ˈfloury)
adjective
Word origin
C13 flur finer portion of meal, flower
flour in American English
(flaʊr)
noun
1.
a fine, powdery substance, or meal, produced by grinding and sifting grain, esp.wheat, or any of various edible roots, nuts, etc.
2.
any finely powdered substance
verb transitive
3.
to put flour in or on
4.
to make into flour
Word origin
ME (see flower): a fig. use as “best, prime” in “flour of wheat,” after Fr fleur de farine, lit., flower of meal
Add the butter and plain flour and stir for about a minute to make a paste.
Times, Sunday Times (2017)
Then stir in the flour and caster sugar.
Times, Sunday Times (2017)
Sift the flour into a mixing bowl.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Add the flour and cocoa powder and mix well.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Put the flour into a large mixing bowl and stir in the salt.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Dust a clean work surface with flour, then tip out the dough.
The Sun (2016)
Such a diet would exclude any added sugar and refined grains such as white flour, white pasta and rice.
Times, Sunday Times (2017)
Set a pan over a medium heat, add the scooped fat, then stir in the flour to make a thick paste.
The Sun (2017)
It has an effect on the proteins which make up the gluten in the wheat flour.
Hanssen, Maurice & Marsden, Jill E For Additives (1987)
Beat the liquid into the flour to make a smooth batter.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
Turn the dough out on to a lightly floured surface.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
Use your fingertips to rub the margarine into the sugar and flour.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Sift together flour and remaining spices into a bowl.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
Then fold through the remaining flour and cocoa powder.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
Whisk the egg in a second bowl and put the flour in a third.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
It remains law for all white and brown flour to still have calcium added.
The Sun (2012)
And chestnut flour can be used in just about anything in which wheat flour is normally used.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
Spread crumbs in a second bowl and flour in a third.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
Turn onto a clean surface dusted with flour.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
Sift the flour into a second bowl and whisk the eggs in a third.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
Stir in the sifted flour and cocoa powder.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
Put the flour on the first and season generously with salt and pepper.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
Avoid too many milk products and white flour or sugar.
Martlew, Gillian & Silver, Shelley Stay Well This Winter (1989)
Sift the flour into the bowl of a blender.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Turn on to a lightly floured surface and knead.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
Sift the flour into a large bowl.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
The pastry weight given in each of these recipes refers to the amount of flour used to make it.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
To make the crumble topping, put the flour and brown sugar in a bowl and mix.
The Sun (2013)
They contain no additives and are simply made from wheat flour, palm oil and salt.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
Meanwhile, make a flour spice mix.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
Put 75g caster sugar and the flour into a small saucepan.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
In a mixing bowl, whisk the egg yolks with the sugar, cornflour and plain flour until smooth.
The Sun (2015)
In other languages
flour
British English: flour /ˈflaʊə/ NOUN
Flour is a white or brown powder that is made by grinding grain. It is used to make bread, cakes, and pastry.
American English: flour
Arabic: طَحِيـن
Brazilian Portuguese: farinha
Chinese: 面粉
Croatian: brašno
Czech: mouka
Danish: mel
Dutch: bloem meel
European Spanish: harina
Finnish: jauhot
French: farine
German: Mehl
Greek: αλεύρι
Italian: farina
Japanese: 小麦粉
Korean: 가루
Norwegian: mel
Polish: mąka
European Portuguese: farinha
Romanian: făină
Russian: мука
Latin American Spanish: harina
Swedish: mjöl
Thai: แป้ง
Turkish: un
Ukrainian: борошно
Vietnamese: bột mì
All related terms of 'flour'
flour bin
a small container for flour
soy flour
flour made from soya beans
bread flour
wheat flour from which a large part of the starch has been removed, thus increasing the proportion of gluten
brown flour
wheat flour that uses approximately 85% of the whole grain
corn flour
flour made from corn
fish flour
fish-protein concentrate in pulverized form
flour mill
a building in which grain is crushed and ground to make flour
flour mite
any of several mites that infest flour and other stored organic materials and may be a serious pest ; some may cause itching in persons handling infected material
flour moth
a pyralid moth, Ephestia Kuehniella , the larvae of which are an important pest of flour mills and granaries
gram flour
flour prepared from the gram seeds
plain flour
Plain flour is flour that does not make cakes and biscuits rise when they are cooked because it has no chemicals added to it.
rock flour
very finely powdered rock, produced when rocks are ground together (as along the faces of a moving fault or during the motion of glaciers ) and are thus chemically unweathered
soya flour
flour made from soya beans
wheat flour
flour made from wheat grain
white flour
flour that consists substantially of the starchy endosperm of wheat , most of the bran and the germ having been removed by the milling process
flour beetle
any of several brown darkling beetles , esp. of the genus Tribolium , that infest , breed in, feed on, and often pollute flour , stored grain , and other stored produce
flour shaker
a container, often with a perforated top, from which flour is shaken
flour sifter
a container in which flour is sifted
graham flour
unbolted wheat flour ground from wholewheat grain , similar to wholewheat flour
potato flour
a type of flour made from potatoes
all-purpose flour
All-purpose flour is flour that does not make cakes and cookies rise when they are baked because it has no chemicals added to it.
self-raising flour
Self-raising flour is flour that makes cakes rise when they are cooked because it has chemicals added to it.
self-rising flour
Self-rising flour is flour that makes cakes rise when they are cooked because it has chemicals added to it.
Mediterranean flour moth
a small pyralid moth , Ephestia kuehniella , whose larvae are an important pest of stored cereals .