flavor

[ fley-ver ]
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noun
  1. taste, especially the distinctive taste of something as it is experienced in the mouth.

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

  1. the characteristic quality of a thing: He captured the flavor of the experience in his book.

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

  3. Physics. any of the six labels given to the distinct kinds of quark: up, down, strange, charm, bottom, and top.

  4. Archaic. smell, odor, or aroma.

verb (used with object)
  1. to give flavor to (something).

Origin of flavor

1
First recorded in 1300–50; Middle English, from Middle French fla(o)ur, from unattested Late Latin flātor “stench, breath,” alteration of Latin flātus a “blowing, breathing,” (see flatus), perhaps with -or of fētorfetor
  • Also especially British, fla·vour .

synonym study For flavor

1. See taste.

Other words for flavor

Other words from flavor

  • fla·vor·less, adjective
  • de·fla·vor, verb (used with object)
  • o·ver·fla·vor, verb
  • pre·fla·vor, noun, verb (used with object)
  • un·fla·vored, adjective
  • well-flavored, adjective

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Scientific definitions for flavor

flavor

[ flāvər ]


  1. Any of six classifications of quark varieties, distinguished by mass and electric charge. The flavors have the names up, down, strange, charm, top, and bottom. Protons in atomic nuclei are composed of two up quarks and one down quark, while neutrons consist of one up quark and two down quarks. The flavor of a quark may be changed in interactions involving the weak force.

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