flour

B1 CET-4 Oxf 3000 高中 FREQ #7864 ★★☆☆☆

n. 面粉, 粉沫, 碎粉 [医] 面粉, 麦粉

发音

UK /ˈflaʊ̯.ə/
CA /ˈflaʊ̯.ɚ/
US /ˈflaʊ̯.ɚ/
IN /flaː(r)/
其它 /flɑː/
其它 /fləɹ/
其它 /flɑɹ/

词形变化

flours 复数 flours floured flouring flours 三单 flouring 现在分词 floured 过去式 floured 过去分词

别名

flower

教材释义与例句

名词

面粉；粉状物质

a powder that is made by crushing wheat or other grain and is used for making bread, cakes etc

动词

撒粉于；把…磨成粉

to cover a surface with flour when you are cooking

释义与例句

n. B1 Oxf 3000
  1. 1.

    Powder obtained by grinding or milling cereal grains, especially wheat, or other foodstuffs such as soybeans and potatoes, and used to bake bread, cakes, and pastry.

    面粉

    不可数
  2. 2.

    The food made by grinding and bolting cleaned wheat (not durum or red durum) until it meets specified levels of fineness, dryness, and freedom from bran and germ, also containing any of certain enzymes, ascorbic acid, and certain bleaching agents.

    不可数
  3. 3.

    Powder of other material.

    不可数

    mustard flour

  4. 4.

    Obsolete form of flower.

    废旧 不可数
v.
  1. 1.

    To apply flour to something; to cover with flour.

    及物
  2. 2.

    To reduce to flour.

    及物
  3. 3.

    To break up into fine globules of mercury in the amalgamation process.

    不及物

词汇关系

名词

上位词 1

foodstuff

下位词 4

plain flour rye flour semolina wheat flour

整体词 5

bread dough pastry breadstuff staff of life
动词

上位词 2

convert dredge

相关短语

flour gold flour treatment agent flour treatment agents flour moth flour mite [医] 粉螨, 蛘螨 flour mites flour moths flour beetle 面象虫, 粉甲（虫）; 谷盗 flour corn 粉质种玉米 flour beetles flour mill [机] 面粉机 flour mills flour paste [医] 面粉糊 flour pastes

词源

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. The U.S. standard of identity comes from 21CFR137.105.

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