Picture the soft pale powder that grain becomes once it has been ground — the base that bread and cake are built out of. English then lets the substance become a verb: to flour something is to give it a thin coat of exactly that powder.
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原始詞典資料7 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
flournoun/ˈflaʊ.ə/
- 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.
- Everything a living animal could do to destroy and to desecrate bed and walls had been done. […] A canister of flour from the kitchen had been thrown at the looking-glass and lay like trampled snow over the remains of a decent blue suit with the lining ripped out which lay on top of the ruin of a plastic wardrobe.
- 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.
- 3
Powder of other material.
- mustard flour
flourverb/ˈflaʊ.ə/
- 1
To apply flour to something; to cover with flour.
- 2
To reduce to flour.
- 3
To break up into fine globules of mercury in the amalgamation process.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
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