Meaning

3 senses
  1. (transitive)To apply flour to something; to cover with flour.

    Flour the surface before rolling out the dough.

    bemehlen

    cover with flour

  2. (transitive)To reduce to flour.

    convert grain into flour

  3. (intransitive)To break up into fine globules of mercury in the amalgamation process.

Examples

178 sentences
  1. Put the flour on the shelf.

    Поклади борошно на полку.

    ruПоложи муку на полку.

    deStell das Mehl ins Regal.

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  2. I need to buy some flour.

    Мені потрібно купити борошна.

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  3. Bread is made from flour, water and yeast.

    Хліб виготовляють із борошна, води й дріжджів.

    ruХлеб делают из муки, воды и дрожжей.

    deBrot wird aus Mehl, Wasser und Hefe hergestellt.

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  4. He bought a lot of flour and oil.

    Він купив багато борошна та олії.

    ruОн накупил муки и масла.

    deEr kaufte viel Mehl und Öl.

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  5. Do we have enough flour?

    У нас достатньо борошна?

    ruУ нас достаточно муки?

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Translations

6 languages
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By meaning 1
to apply flour to something:

Origin

Spelled (until about 1830) and meaning flower in the sense of flour being the "finest port

Spelled (until about 1830) and meaning flower in the sense of flour being the "finest portion of ground grain" (compare French fleur de farine, fine fleur). Doublet of fleur, flor, and flower. Partially displaced native meal.

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Forms

flours, flouring, floured, floured
Base formflour · to flour
3rd person singularflours
Present participleflouring
Past simplefloured
Past participlefloured

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyflour
he, she, itflours

Past simpleLesson

all personsfloured

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave floured
he, she, ithas floured

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill flour

Word family

2 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
flour — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto