Sekirov Dictionary

flavor

UK /ˈfleɪvə/US /ˈfleɪvɚ/

noun 8
verb 1
forms 3
phrases 2

noun8

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the taste that a food or drink has, felt in the mouth and the nose
- The flavor of this apple pie is delicious.
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A variety (of taste) attributed to an object (food, candy, chewing gum, medicine, etc).
- What flavor of bubble gum do you most enjoy?
- My favorite flavor of lip balm is called mystical minty camomile.
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(informal, figurative) A kind or type.
- Debian is one flavor of the Linux operating system.
•
The characteristic quality of something.
- I'd like to read from a pair of letters that we got recently at GCN to give you the flavor of the issues gay prisoners have to deal with. — 1983
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Flavoring, a substance used to produce a taste.
- Flavor was added to the pudding.
One of the six types of quarks (top, bottom, strange, charmed, up, and down) or three types of leptons (electron, muon, and tauon).
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(slang) Style.
- Who brings the flavor? / That's me, that's me / Who brings the flavor? / That's me. I got it — 1993
(no longer used) The quality produced by the sensation of smell; odour; fragrance.

verb1

To add flavoring to something.

forms

flavored · flavoring · flavors

Phrases with flavor

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