flavor
[fley-ver]
- taste, especially the distinctive taste of something as it is experienced in the mouth.
- a substance or extract that provides a particular taste; flavoring.
- the characteristic quality of a thing: He captured the flavor of the experience in his book.
- a particular quality noticeable in a thing: language with a strong nautical flavor.
- Physics. any of the six labels given to the distinct kinds of quark: up, down, strange, charm, bottom, and top.
- Archaic. smell, odor, or aroma.
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- to give flavor to (something).
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Also especially British, fla·vour.
Origin of flavor
Synonyms
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Examples from the Web for flavor
Contemporary Examples
Tosi has been using cereal milk as a flavor ever since 2007, and she says it taps into a universal “memory sensor.”
While the flavor is nowhere near as popular as the original, 10 percent of the one million cases of Zima sold each year are pink.
Yeah, you get a flavor of his brutality, you get a flavor of his family life, you get a flavor of him helping the people.
Whether the faith-based wave will be a long-term trend, or just another Hollywood flavor of the month remains to be seen.
Basically any quality of weed will do, since the extraction of THC is the point and not the flavor or loftiness of effect.
Historical Examples
While pulling, flavor with vanilla and a few drops of lemon.
Woman's Institute Library of Cookery, Vol. 5Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences
As the roasting also develops the flavor, it must be done carefully.
Woman's Institute Library of Cookery, Vol. 5Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences
Also there was a flavor of farm-yard in my nostrils and the shouting of a multitude in my ears.
American NotesRudyard Kipling
This cousin had a broken hip, she needed company, and the flavor of old times.
Tiverton TalesAlice Brown
Kirkwood's smile robbed the retort of any flavor of incivility.
The Black BagLouis Joseph Vance
Word Origin and History for flavor
n.
c.1300, "a smell, odor" (usually a pleasing one), from Old French flaour "smell, odor," from Vulgar Latin flator "odor," literally "that which blows," from Latin flator "blower," from flare "to blow, puff," which is cognate with Old English blawan (see blow (v.1)).
The same Vulgar Latin source produced Old Italian fiatore "a bad odor." Sense of "taste, savor" is 1690s, perhaps 1670s; originally "the element in taste which depends on the sense of smell." The -v- is perhaps from influence of savor.
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Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
flavor
[flā′vər]
- 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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