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fla⋅vour

  [fley-ver]
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–noun Chiefly British.
flavor.
Usage note:
See -or 1 .

fla⋅vor

  [fley-ver]
–noun
1. taste, esp. the distinctive taste of something as it is experienced in the mouth.
2. a substance or extract that provides a particular taste; flavoring.
3. the characteristic quality of a thing: He captured the flavor of the experience in his book.
4. a particular quality noticeable in a thing: language with a strong nautical flavor.
5. Physics. any of the six labels given to the distinct kinds of quark: up, down, strange, charm, bottom, and top.
6. Archaic. smell, odor, or aroma.
–verb (used with object)
7. to give flavor to (something).
Also, especially British, flavour.

Origin:
1300–50; ME < MF fla(o)ur < LL *flātor stench, breath, alter. of L flātus a blowing, breathing, (see flatus ), perh. with -or of fētor fetor

Related forms:
fla⋅vor⋅less, adjective

Synonyms:
1. See taste. 2. seasoning. 3. essence, spirit.
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fla·vour   (flā'vər)   
n.   & v. Chiefly British
Variant of flavor.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Word Origin & History

flavor 
c.1300, "a smell, odor," from O.Fr. flaour "smell, odor," from V.L. flator "odor," lit. "that which blows," from L. flator "blower," from flare "to blow, puff," which is cognate with O.E. blawan (see blow (v.1)). The same V.L. source produced O.It. fiatore "a bad odor." Sense of "taste, savor" is 1697, originally "the element in taste which depends on the sense of smell." The -v- is perhaps from infl. of savor.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: 2flavor
Variant: or chiefly British fla·vour
Function: transitive verb
Inflected Forms: fla·vored or chieflyBritish fla·voured; fla·vor·ing or chiefly British fla·vour·ing /'flAv-(&-)ri[ng]/
: to give or addflavor to
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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Computing Dictionary

flavour jargon
(US: flavor) 1. Variety, type, kind. "DDT commands come in two flavors." "These lights come in two flavors, big red ones and small green ones." See vanilla.
2. The attribute that causes something to be flavourful. Usually used in the phrase "yields additional flavour". "This convention yields additional flavor by allowing one to print text either right-side-up or upside-down." See vanilla.
This usage was certainly reinforced by the terminology of quantum chromodynamics, in which quarks (the constituents of, e.g. protons) come in six flavors (up, down, strange, charm, top, bottom) and three colours (red, blue, green), however, hackish use of "flavor" at MIT predated QCD.
3. The term for "class" (in the object-oriented sense) in the LISP Machine Flavors system. Though the Flavors design has been superseded (notably by the Common LISP CLOS facility), the term "flavor" is still used as a general synonym for "class" by some Lisp hackers.
(1994-11-01)

The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
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Encyclopedia

flavour

in particle physics, property that distinguishes different members in the two groups of basic building blocks of matter, the quarks and the leptons. There are six flavours of subatomic particle within each of these two groups: six leptons (the electron, the muon, the tau, the electron-neutrino, the muon-neutrino, and the tau-neutrino), and six quarks (designated up, down, charm, strange, top, and bottom).

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