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

to flour

2 3.2

To cover food with a thin layer of fine powder made from grain before cooking

verb
/flaʊər/

: enharinar

Lightly flour them, transfer them to a cutting board, and place it in the refrigerator.
grease and flour
lightly floured
flour the surface

Examples

Lightly flour the top of the dough as well.

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Flour a work surface and transfer the dough to it.

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Flour your rolling pin as well.

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Grease and flour the tube pan.

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Flour the top of the dough and brush off the excess.

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Place the dough on the board and flour the top of the dough liberally as well.

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Continue to flour your rolling pin and scrape any sticky pieces of dough off of it frequently.

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I made the cake, made sure to adequately grease and flour my pan, and followed the instructions from you and on the box.

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Lightly flour your work surface, and roll out the dough into a 1/4-inch thick rectangle.

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To prevent sticking, be sure to flour the surface before rolling out the dough.

Synonyms

to dredge

vsto flour

2 4.7

To coat food lightly with flour or breadcrumbs before cooking

focuses on coating using a specific fine powder rather than various dry ingredients

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 Coated

to cover

∞ 1.0

to flour

2 3.2

to dust

54 2.5

Surface Forms

flour infinitive

floured past

floured past participle

flouring present participle

flours third person singular

Etymology

Flour (verb) comes from the same noun flour, from old French fleur meaning 'the finest part'. Because cooks use that fine powder to dust food, 'to flour' came to mean 'to cover with flour'.