🌾 A baking powder 🍗 To coat food 🛠️ To grind grain

to flour

1 6.3

To grind grain into a fine powder for baking or cooking

verb
/flaʊər/

: moler

To thicken the sauce, you need to flour the butter in the pan until it forms a roux.

Examples

In a medium saucepan, whisk margarine and flour over medium heat for 3 to 5 minutes to make a roux.

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They decided to flour the chicken before frying it, ensuring a crispy texture.
Or if you go that part where the grains go, it's like, that's not trammelling you to death, that is scooping you up and turning you into flour, basically.
The miller will flour the wheat to produce high-quality baking flour.

Synonyms

to powder

vsto flour

39 3.0

To crush or grind something until it becomes a fine dry material

is limited to making grain into the baking ingredient rather than any material

to mill

vsto flour

4 2.5

To grind grain into flour

focuses on converting grain into the final fine ingredient rather than the machine

Compounds

wheat flour

4 1.0

Powder from wheat used for baking and cooking

whole wheat flour

2 2.5

Powder made from whole wheat used for baking bread

flour mill

1 2.2

A building or machine that grinds grain into flour

self-rising flour

1 3.0

Flour with baking powder and salt already mixed in to help dough rise

flour beetle

1 6.2

A small insect that lives in flour and stored grains and spoils food

flour bin

1 1.3

A container for keeping flour in a kitchen or bakery

rye flour

1 2.8

A powder from ground rye grain used for baking bread

plain flour

1 1.0

Flour without baking powder used for baking and cooking

self-raising flour

1 3.0

Flour with baking powder and salt added so baked goods rise

soy flour

1 2.5

A fine powder made from ground soybeans used as an ingredient in baking

flour corn

Specialized

6.3

A type of corn with very soft kernels used to make fine meal

flour weevil

7.9

A small beetle that lives in and eats stored flour and grains

Mediterranean flour moth

9.5

A small moth whose larvae eat stored flour and grain

graham flour

5.3

A type of flour made from whole wheat that keeps the bran

pea flour

3.6

Powder made from dried peas used for cooking and baking

soybean flour

3.1

Powder from ground soybeans used for baking and cooking

unsifted flour

3.2

A type of flour not passed through a sieve that has small clumps and makes baked goods heavier

whole meal flour

3.5

Powder made by grinding whole wheat grain including the bran

How Fine

to pulverize

8 7.4

to flour

1 6.3

grind

5 2.5

crush

27 2.8

to crack

Specialized

22 8.5

Surface Forms

flour infinitive

floured past

floured past participle

flouring present participle

flours third person singular

Etymology

Flour (verb) comes from the noun flour, which in turn comes from old French fleur meaning 'the finest part'. To 'flour' grain meant to make that fine powder, so the verb means 'to grind grain into flour'.