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Definition of 'flavor'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) flavor
taste, esp. the distinctive taste of something as it is experienced in the mouth.

2.  flavor
a substance or extract that provides a particular taste; flavoring.

3.  flavor
the characteristic quality of a thing:
to capture the flavor of an experience.

4.  flavor
a particular quality noticeable in a thing:
language with a strong nautical flavor.

5.  flavor
a property that distinguishes among the six kinds of quark: up, down, strange, charmed, bottom, and top.

6.  flavor
a property that distinguishes among the three kinds of lepton: electron, muon, and tauon.

7.  flavor
Archaic. smell; odor; aroma.

8. (v.t.) flavor
to give flavor to (something).

Etymology: (1300–50; ME < MF fla(o)ur < VL *flātor stench, alter. of L flātus blowing, breathing; see flatus)

Definition of 'flavor'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) spirit, tone, feel, feeling, flavor, flavour, look, smell
the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people
"the feel of the city excited him"; "a clergyman improved the tone of the meeting"; "it had the smell of treason"

2. (noun) relish, flavor, flavour, sapidity, savor, savour, smack, nip, tang
the taste experience when a savoury condiment is taken into the mouth

3. (verb) flavor, flavour
(physics) the six kinds of quarks

4. (verb) season, flavor, flavour
lend flavor to
"Season the chicken breast after roasting it"

Definition of 'flavor'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (noun) flavor
the taste sth has
a spicy flavor; What flavor ice cream do you want?

2. flavor
the quality of having taste
The soup needs more flavor.

3. flavor
the character or quality typical of sth
Their dancing brings a flavor of Spain to the event.

4. (verb) flavor
to give a taste to
oils flavored with herbs

Definition of 'flavor'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) flavor
that quality of anything which affects the smell; odor; fragrances; as, the flavor of a rose

2. (noun) flavor
that quality of anything which affects the taste; that quality which gratifies the palate; relish; zest; savor; as, the flavor of food or drink

3. (noun) flavor
that which imparts to anything a peculiar odor or taste, gratifying to the sense of smell, or the nicer perceptions of the palate; a substance which flavors

4. (noun) flavor
that quality which gives character to any of the productions of literature or the fine arts

5. (verb) flavor
to give flavor to; to add something (as salt or a spice) to, to give character or zest

Definitions of 'flavor'

The New Hacker's Dictionary

1. flavor
1. [common] Variety, type, kind. “DDT commands come in two flavors.” “These lights come in two flavors, big red ones and small green ones.” “Linux is a flavor of Unix” See vanilla.

2. The attribute that causes something to be flavorful. Usually used in the phrase “yields additional flavor”. “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 colors (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.

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