flour

A powder made from grain or other foods, used to make bread, cakes, and similar foods.

• Add flour to the bowl.
• She uses rice flour in her cakes.
• Have we got enough flour for bread?

Common phrases: wheat flour, plain flour, flour and water

A fine powder made by crushing seeds or other materials.

• The mixture contains mustard flour.
• Wood flour can be added to plastic.
• They grind the material into a fine flour.

Similar words: powder

Common phrases: mustard flour, wood flour, fine flour

To cover something with a thin layer of the powder used in baking.

• Flour the board before making the pastry.
• She floured her hands to handle the dough.
• Lightly flour the fish before frying it.

Common phrases: flour a surface, flour a tin, lightly flour something