flavour or flavor (ˈfleɪvə) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) |
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| —n |
| 1. | taste perceived in food or liquid in the mouth |
| 2. | a substance added to food, etc, to impart a specific taste |
| 3. | a distinctive quality or atmosphere; suggestion: a poem with a Shakespearean flavour |
| 4. | a type or variety: various flavours of graphical interface |
| 5. | physics a property of quarks that enables them to be differentiated into six types: up, down, strange, charm, bottom (or beauty), and top (or truth) |
| 6. | flavour of the month a person or thing that is the most popular at a certain time |
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| —vb |
| 7. | (tr) to impart a flavour, taste, or quality to |
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| [C14: from Old French flaour, from Late Latin flātor (unattested) bad smell, breath, from Latin flāre to blow] |
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| flavor or flavor |
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| —n |
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| —vb |
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| [C14: from Old French flaour, from Late Latin flātor (unattested) bad smell, breath, from Latin flāre to blow] |
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| 'flavourer or flavor |
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| —n |
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| 'flavorer or flavor |
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| —n |
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| 'flavourless or flavor |
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| —adj |
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| 'flavorless or flavor |
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| —adj |
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| 'flavoursome or flavor |
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| —adj |
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| 'flavorsome or flavor |
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| —adj |