What does flavor mean?
Definitions for flavor
ˈfleɪ vərfla·vor
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Princeton's WordNet
spirit, tone, feel, feeling, flavor, flavour, look, smell(noun)
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"
relish, flavor, flavour, sapidity, savor, savour, smack, nip, tang(noun)
the taste experience when a savoury condiment is taken into the mouth
flavor, flavour(verb)
(physics) the six kinds of quarks
season, flavor, flavour(verb)
lend flavor to
"Season the chicken breast after roasting it"
Wiktionary
flavor(Noun)
The quality produced by the sensation of taste.
The flavor of this apple pie is delicious.
Etymology: meaning "smell, odor", usually pleasing, from flaour, from flator, from flator, from flo
flavor(Noun)
A substance used to produce a taste; flavoring.
Flavor was added to the pudding.
Etymology: meaning "smell, odor", usually pleasing, from flaour, from flator, from flator, from flo
flavor(Noun)
A variety of tastes attributed to an object.
What flavor of bubble gum do you enjoy?
Etymology: meaning "smell, odor", usually pleasing, from flaour, from flator, from flator, from flo
flavor(Noun)
The characteristic quality of something.
the flavor of an experience
Etymology: meaning "smell, odor", usually pleasing, from flaour, from flator, from flator, from flo
flavor(Noun)
A type of something.
His favorite flavor of ...
Etymology: meaning "smell, odor", usually pleasing, from flaour, from flator, from flator, from flo
flavor(Noun)
a term used to name the six types of quarks (top, bottom, strange, charmed, up, and down) or three types of leptons (electron, muon, and tauon).
Etymology: meaning "smell, odor", usually pleasing, from flaour, from flator, from flator, from flo
flavor(Verb)
To add flavoring to (something).
Etymology: meaning "smell, odor", usually pleasing, from flaour, from flator, from flator, from flo
Webster Dictionary
Flavor(noun)
that quality of anything which affects the smell; odor; fragrances; as, the flavor of a rose
Etymology: [OF. fleur, flaur (two syllables), odor, cf. F. fleurer to emit an odor, It. flatore a bad odor, prob. fr. L. flare to bow, whence the sense of exhalation. Cf. Blow.]
Flavor(noun)
that quality of anything which affects the taste; that quality which gratifies the palate; relish; zest; savor; as, the flavor of food or drink
Etymology: [OF. fleur, flaur (two syllables), odor, cf. F. fleurer to emit an odor, It. flatore a bad odor, prob. fr. L. flare to bow, whence the sense of exhalation. Cf. Blow.]
Flavor(noun)
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
Etymology: [OF. fleur, flaur (two syllables), odor, cf. F. fleurer to emit an odor, It. flatore a bad odor, prob. fr. L. flare to bow, whence the sense of exhalation. Cf. Blow.]
Flavor(noun)
that quality which gives character to any of the productions of literature or the fine arts
Etymology: [OF. fleur, flaur (two syllables), odor, cf. F. fleurer to emit an odor, It. flatore a bad odor, prob. fr. L. flare to bow, whence the sense of exhalation. Cf. Blow.]
Flavor(verb)
to give flavor to; to add something (as salt or a spice) to, to give character or zest
Etymology: [OF. fleur, flaur (two syllables), odor, cf. F. fleurer to emit an odor, It. flatore a bad odor, prob. fr. L. flare to bow, whence the sense of exhalation. Cf. Blow.]
Freebase
Flavor
Flavor or flavour is the sensory impression of a food or other substance, and is determined mainly by the chemical senses of taste and smell. The "trigeminal senses", which detect chemical irritants in the mouth and throat as well as temperature and texture, are also very important to the overall Gestalt of flavor perception. The flavor of the food, as such, can be altered with natural or artificial flavorants, which affect these senses. Flavorant is defined as a substance that gives another substance flavor, altering the characteristics of the solute, causing it to become sweet, sour, tangy, etc. Of the three chemical senses, smell is the main determinant of a food item's flavor. While the taste of food is limited to sweet, sour, bitter, salty, umami pungent or piquant, and metallic – the seven basic tastes – the smells of a food are potentially limitless. A food's flavor, therefore, can be easily altered by changing its smell while keeping its taste similar. Nowhere is this better exemplified than in artificially flavored jellies, soft drinks and candies, which, while made of bases with a similar taste, have dramatically different flavors due to the use of different scents or fragrances. The flavorings of commercially produced food products are typically created by flavorists.
The New Hacker's Dictionary
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.
Editors Contribution
flavor
A type of taste and product.
The flavor of the food was amazing, so tasty.
Submitted by MaryC on March 16, 2020
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of flavor in Chaldean Numerology is: 9
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of flavor in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2
Examples of flavor in a Sentence
If you're someone who works from home and you find yourself wandering into the kitchen too many times, or if you keep visiting an office kitchen that's packed with snacks, here chewing a piece of gum may help, it's putting something in your mouth, it's keeping it busy, it has this great flavor in it, and you might be less likely to reach for food... or that piece of chocolate on your co-worker's desk.
Fox News’s such a great cookie that we just wanted to enhance Fox News flavors and put Fox News inside of a milkshake, fox News’s always been a big thing for us to be able to give back to the Girl Scout community and having our own twist on it from a culinary perspective and background — being able to give back to the girls that have helped out communities around us so much. Fox News’s just something we’re trying to back them with, as well as their great flavor of cookies.
You'll never taste the cannabis in my cooking unless I specifically want you to taste it because it's not a pleasant taste. ... It throws off the whole flavor of the dish.
That's what really makes that crave-able flavor when you start start to cook it, it's this sort of bloody... I can't even begin to describe it.
Flavor chemicals and the solvents, the liquids, that are in electronic cigarettes, they are forming new chemical compounds.
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