| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Adjective | 1. Finely granulated; -- said of quicksilver which has been granulated by agitation during the amalgamation process.[Websters]
2. Being flowered. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. Being puzzled.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb | 1. Of Flour.[Websters]. | |
| Verb Past Tense | 1. Past tense conjugation of the verb flour.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (flour) | 1. Cover with flour; "flour fish or meat before frying it".[Wordnet]. 2. Convert grain into flour.[Wordnet]. 3. To grind and bolt; to convert into flour; as, to flour wheat.[Websters]. 4. To sprinkle with flour.[Websters]. 5. Base verb from the following inflections: flouring, floured, flours, flourer, flourers, flouringly and flouredly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
Date "FLOURED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1379. (references) |
Specialty Definition: FLOURED
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Verb] Converted into flour; sprinkled with flour.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Mining | The finely granulated condition of quicksilver, produced to a greater or lesser extent by its agitation during the amalgamation process. The coating of quicksilver with what appears to be a thin film of some sulfide, so that when it is separated into globules these refuse to reunite. Also called flouring. See: sickening. (references) | ||
| Wiktionary | [Verb] Simple past tense and past participle of flour. (references) | ||
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Common Expressions: flour
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Flour beetle | An insect that infests flour and stored grains. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Flour bin | A bin for holding flour. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Flour bleaching agent | Flour bleaching agent is a food additive added to flour in order to make it appear whiter (freshly milled flour is yellowish) and to oxidize the surfaces of the flour grains and help with developing of gluten. (references) | ||
| Flour bolt | In milling, a gauze-covered, revolving, cylindrical frame or reel, for sifting the flour from the refuse contained in the meal yielded by the stones. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| Flour box | A tin box for scattering flour; a dredging box. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| Flour corn | Corn having kernels almost entirely of soft starch. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Flour dresser | A mashine for sorting and distributing flour according to grades of fineness. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| Flour fire ball | As well as the flour bomb, use a long piece of very wide bore glass tubing with a fine piece of fine copper mesh shaped and placed in one end. Place a teaspoon of flour down the tube to rest on the mesh. Aim into a blue bunsen flame and blow down tube to blow flour out of mesh. (references) | ||
| Flour mill | 1: A mill for grinding and sifting flour. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| 2: A mill for grinding grain into flour. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | |||
| Flour mill | The flour mill or grist mill is a kind of mill which is fed grain and makes flour. Modern mills use serrated and flat cast iron rollers to separate the bran and germ from the endosperm. The endosperm is ground to create white flour which may be recombined with the bran and germ to create whole wheat or graham flour. (references) | ||
| Flour treatment agent | Flour treatment agents (also called improving agents) are food additives added to flour in order to improve its properties. (references) | ||
| Flour weevil | An insect that infests flour and stored grains. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Graham flour | Flour made by grinding the entire wheat berry including the bran; (`whole meal flour' is British usage). Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Graham flour | Graham flour is a type of whole wheat flour. Rather than simply grinding the whole grain (bran, germ, and endosperm) wheat kernel, the components are ground separately. The endosperm is ground finely, initially creating white flour. The bran and germ are ground coarsely. The two parts are then mixed back together, creating a coarse-textured flour that bakes well. (references) | ||
| Gram flour | Gram flour, not to be confused with Graham flour, also known as chana flour, besan or chickpea flour, is an ingredient used in Indian cuisine. It consists of ground chickpeas, and it is used in various foods such as curries and bombay mix. (references) | ||
| Nippon Flour Mills | Nippon Flour Mills Co., Ltd. (日本製粉 Nippon Seifun) is a Japanese company which derives most of its revenue from milling flour and produces flour related products such as noodles. It was established in 1896. (references) | ||
| Pea flour | Meal made from dried peas. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Plain flour | Flour that does not contain a raising agent. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Rock flour | Rock flour consists of clay-sized particles of rock, generated by glacial erosion or by artificial grinding to a similar size. (references) | ||
| Self-raising flour | A commercially prepared mixture of flour and salt and a leavening agent. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Self-rising flour | A commercially prepared mixture of flour and salt and a leavening agent. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Soy flour | Meal made from soybeans. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Soybean flour | Meal made from soybeans. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Vallejo Flour Mill | The Vallejo Flour Mill in Fremont, California, was built in 1856 by José de Jesús Vallejo, brother of General Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo, on his Rancho Arroyo de la Alameda. Fremont was once called Vallejo Mills. The stone aqueduct built to carry water for the mill parallels Niles Canyon Road. The mill is now located in Vallejo Mill Historical Park and is a California Historical Landmark (#46). (references) | ||
| Wheat flour | Flour prepared from wheat. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Whole meal flour | Flour made by grinding the entire wheat berry including the bran; (`whole meal flour' is British usage). Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Whole wheat flour | Flour made by grinding the entire wheat berry including the bran; (`whole meal flour' is British usage). Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Whole wheat flour | Whole wheat flour is a powdery substance derived by grinding or mashing the whole wheat berry. It is used in baking but typically mixed with other "white" flours to add nutrition, texture, fiber, and body to the finished product. Usually, whole wheat flour is not the main ingredients of baked goods due to its quality to add texture and a certain "heaviness" to baked goods which prevents them from rising as well as white flours. This adds to the cost per volume of the baked item as it requires more flour to obtain the same volume due to the fewer and smaller air pockets trapped in the raised goods. (references) | ||
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Specialty Expressions: flour
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Corn flour | Food & Agriculture | Starch made from corn and used in foods as a thickening agent, in making corn syrup and sugars, and in the manufacture of adhesives and sizes for papers and textiles. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Culinary flour | Food & Agriculture | A basic, white, all-purpose flour, used for pastry and cakes(not bread). Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Fish Flour | Health | A flour made of pulverized, dried fish or fish parts. (references) | |
| Flour agate | Mining | A. Any moss agate. b. A term applied to any moss agate or mocha stone with flowerlike markings. c. Translucent chalcedony from Oregon containing inclusions of minerals, some red, brown, or yellow and green, arranged in flowerlike forms,commonly both red and green. (references) | |
| Flour blender | Occupations | Tends machines that blend and sift flour, and conveyors that carry flour between machines: Starts screw conveyors or turns valves on feed chutes to transfer flour from storage bins to mixing machine, or dumps designated bags of flour into hopper of machine. Starts machine to mix flour and pulls lever to open gate and allow blended flour to flow from machine. Starts separator that sifts mixed flour to remove lumps. Starts conveyors that transfer blended and sifted flour to packing machine. (references) | |
| Flour bolt | Personal Care & Hotels | Flour sieve, sifter. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Flour copper | Mining | Very fine scaly native copper that floats on water and is very difficultto save in milling. See also:float copper. (references) | |
| Flour distributor | Occupations | Operates panelboard to control pneumatic conveyor system that transfers flour from railroad cars, through blending, sifting, and weighing units to storage bins for subsequent processing into macaroni products: Opens hatch of railroad hopper car to admit air, and connects pneumatic hose to car outlet and to intake pipe of specified bin. Sets timing devices, turns switches, and pushes buttons on panelboard to start and control movement of material through specified processing units to storage bins. Observes lights on board to follow progress of material, or to detect need for changing or bypassing operations. Diverts material flow by pressing button governing specific bin or processing unit. Records car number, weight, and type of material in car, name of sender, and location of material in storage bin or unit. Operates pneumatic air compressor [AIR-COMPRESSOR OPERATOR (any industry)] in conjunction with panelboard, to transfer and distribute flour. May dump bags of special flour into hopper for distribution through processing units. (references) | |
| Flour gold | Mining | See: float gold. (references) | |
| Flour gypsum | Mining | See: gypsum. (references) | |
| Flour mixer | Occupations | 1: Tends machine that blends flour: Loads pallets with sacks of specified flour and transports them to blending machine, using truck. Dumps flour from sacks into machine hoppers. Holds sack over suction bag-cleaning device to remove remaining flour dust. Starts blender and turns dials to regulate speed of screw conveyors that mix flour in prescribed ratios. Records weights of flours blended. (references) | |
| 2: Tends machine that mixes flour and ingredients, such as buttermilk solids, phosphate, salt, soda, and sugar, to produce self-rising or other premixed flour: Dumps specified amount of flour into mixer or turns dial to convey measured amount into mixer. Weighs and dumps other ingredients, such as buttermilk solids, phosphate, soda, and sugar, according to formula, and starts machine. May record amount of ingredients in each batch. May be designated according to type of flour mixed as Self-Rising-Flour Mixer (grain-feed mills). (references) | |||
| Flour salt | Mining | Very fine-grained vacuum pan salt. (references) | |
| Flour tester | Occupations | Bakes loaves of bread to verify adherence of blended flour to specifications: Weighs equal portions of test flour and standard flour. Mixes flour and other ingredients and makes batch of dough from each flour. Records mixing formula and observes water absorption and kneading qualities of each batch to ensure that flour conforms to specifications. Places loaves in oven. Examines and compares baked loaves for uniformity of color and texture. Weighs each loaf and records weights. May prepare written reports of findings. (references) | |
| Fossil flour | Mining | See: diatomite. (references) | |
| Glacial flour | Geology | Glacial flour is the fine-grained sediment carried by glacial rivers that results from the abrasion of rock at the glacier bed. Its presence turns lake water aqua blue or brown, depending on its parent rock type. (references) | |
| Maize flour | Food & Agriculture | A flour produced by grinding and bolting corn or as a by-product of the manufacture of grits or hominy. . . WINAC 62. . /. . --white, finely ground and bolted cornmeal. ; finely ground but unbolted corn, used in corn bread, mush, etc. . . WINAG 62. . Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Maslin flour | Food & Agriculture | Mixed grain, esp. rye mixed with wheat; also, bread made of mixed corn. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Miller, wood flour | Occupations | Operates milling machine that pulverizes and sifts sawdust to make wood flour: Reads work order to ascertain quantity and particle size of flour required. Selects screen of specified mesh and places it on bed of reciprocating sifter. Starts hammer mill, conveyors, and sifter, and observes pulverizing and sifting operation. Inspects flour samples to verify adherence to specifications. Empties sifters, conveyors, or mills with handscoop when overloading or jamming occurs. Repairs holes in screens by gluing section of mesh over damaged area or by fastening screen onto frame. May sack flour. (references) | |
| Rock Flour | Administration | Finely ground rock particles produced by glacial abrasion. Also referred to as Glacier Meal. (references) | |
| Rock flour | Geography | The least plastic varieties of inorganic silt, generally consisting of more or less equidimensional grains of quartz. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Rock flour | Mining | A. Powdered rock material formed by the grinding-up of rocks beneath a glacier, either deposited as part of the till or washed or blown away and deposited elsewhere as stratified drift or loess. Also called glacier meal. Syn:rock mealb. Fault gouge. (references) | |
| Wood flour | European Union | A powder obtained by grinding sawdust, shavings and other wood waste. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Wood flour | Metallurgy | Finely powdered wood chiefly used as an anti-scab additive, a shaking-out and a de-coring agent as part substitute for sea coal. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Zircon flour | Mining | Finely milled zircon sand. (references) | |
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