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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
flavour
I.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
artificial flavours
▪ Ice cream often has artificial flavours in it.
fuller flavour
▪ Now you can enjoy Nescafé's fuller flavour in a decaffeinated form.
mild flavour
▪ a cheese with a pleasant mild flavour
subtle taste/flavour/smell etc
▪ The flavour of the dried berries is more subtle.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
bitter
▪ Carbon dioxide also offers the flexibility to separate the hop components into bitter and flavour fractions.
▪ Raw berries should be cooked and sweetened before being eaten because they have an intensely bitter flavour.
delicate
▪ Their skin is rough and sometimes striped, with a sweet and scented delicate flavour.
▪ Formosa Oolong A semi-fermented or oxidised tea with a delicate flavour.
▪ Boneless salmon fillets are especially popular with children who enjoy its delicate, fresh flavour.
▪ After centuries of crumbling gently before exciting our taste buds with your delicate flavour you have finally departed your origins.
distinctive
▪ Corn oil is slightly heavier and more distinctive in flavour - I find it too heavy for salads.
▪ In many cases the use of local materials imparted to country stations a distinctive regional flavour.
▪ No brewer should ever be afraid of making beer with a distinctive flavour.
▪ To my taste, none of these have a particularly distinctive flavour, but the quality in texture is immediately obvious.
▪ Thanks to some very skilful hanging each of the four rooms used has a very distinctive flavour all its own.
▪ They tend to have a distinctive, pungent flavour and are quite different from other cheeses.
▪ It has a distinctive flavour that blends well with pork.
full
▪ The Flavia is a small tomato, which is left on the vine longer to develop a fuller flavour.
▪ Mushrooms: large open cup mushrooms are full of flavour.
▪ Blanquette de Limoux has a lovely creamy taste, with a full, rounded flavour.
▪ It does cook up wet and sticky, but has a texture of its own and is full of flavour.
▪ Some differential geometry and tensor analysis is needed in order to appreciate the full flavour of the theory.
▪ Nowadays, Lancashire cheese is kept for three months, so it has a slightly fuller flavour.
▪ So, you can enjoy the full flavour of Nescafé in a decaffeinated form.
good
▪ Of course, meat must eat well, that is, be tender, juicy, and of good flavour.
▪ Lots of cherries and other fruit and good boozy flavour - a cross between Christmas cake and pudding.
▪ The longer this salad chills the better the flavour.
▪ Safeway Organic Bananas, £1.59 for six A sweet banana with good all-round flavour and a smooth texture.
▪ Follow the given preparation and cooking order correctly for the best flavour and beautiful vivid colours.
▪ We were looking for a good flavour and meaty texture.
▪ Both have a good flavour when fully ripened, but the unpasteurised cheeses are very strong and an absolute delight!
international
▪ But it was not only the international flavour of Penguin New Writing that distinguished it from other symposia of this kind.
▪ In fact the international flavour came early.
mild
▪ I keep one pressed goats' milk cheese, Burndell, which has a creamy texture and a mild flavour.
▪ Doux de Montagne is a delicious, semi-hard cheese with a mild, fruity flavour and buttery after-taste.
nutty
▪ It has a rich nutty flavour and a full bodied bouquet.
▪ Buckwheat pasta has a strong, nutty flavour.
▪ They have a distinctively nutty flavour and texture.
▪ Excelso has a nutty flavour and Medellin is very fragrant.
▪ Wild rice has a very nutty flavour and takes a long time to cook.
▪ Both types belong to the kidney bean family and have a slightly nutty flavour.
rich
▪ The Norfolk Royal Russet is a new apple with rich flavour and scent.
▪ I use grapeseed oil for mayonnaise, finding that olive oil gives too rich a flavour.
▪ It has a rich nutty flavour and a full bodied bouquet.
▪ Excellent, rich flavour with plenty of fruit, nuts and alcohol, though it needs a little more spice and peel.
▪ Finally it is blended with 10 year old Balsamic vinegar to give its distinctive dark, sweet, rich flavour.
▪ The brown sugar, incidentally, gives rhubarb a specially rich flavour and colour.
▪ Recipes with imagination and taste, rich in flavour not unwanted calories or fats.
strong
▪ The more finely sliced the ingredients the stronger the flavour.
▪ Contains lots of cherries and other fruit and has a strong citrus flavour.
▪ The cheese is firm in texture and has a strong flavour.
▪ Mace is the outer husk of the nutmeg and has a strong but fragrant flavour.
▪ When the purée is made a little extra port can be added by those who like a stronger flavour of wine.
▪ Buckwheat pasta has a strong, nutty flavour.
▪ For a stronger flavour, sprinkle the sponge biscuits with orange juice and extra Cointreau.
▪ The resulting baking had a strong garlic flavour, more acceptable perhaps in bread, but cakes, Yuk!
subtle
▪ Kikkoman Soy Sauce takes its pure and subtle flavour from the lengthy natural fermentation process.
▪ Goujons of sole Here's a recipe to make the lovely, firm texture and subtle flavour of sole go a little further.
▪ The latter are the hottest, the dried berries having a more subtle flavour.
▪ Processed Caerphilly can be rather bland, but a traditional farmhouse variety has a delicious, if subtle flavour.
▪ It gave the dish a very subtle flavour, that Port-Salut.
unique
▪ Internment - as opposed to prisoners-of-war camps - has a unique sociological flavour.
▪ Without bruising the town's unique flavour, Stein has found its old buildings a creative role in a modern world.
▪ They have a unique flavour and need only to be used sparingly to enliven the dullest of dishes.
■ VERB
add
▪ It adds a characteristic flavour to a range of savoury dishes, from pizza to pork chops.
▪ If liked, 1 teaspoon of rum could be added for extra flavour.
▪ If possible, brush the sauce on a couple of hours before cooking as this will add greatly to the flavour.
▪ He was searching for a complete lyricist who could add flavour to songs he was intending to be covered by bigger artists.
▪ To add more flavour, sprinkle with freshly ground black pepper.
▪ You can more or less make soup from anything, though a good home-made stock adds a certain flavour.
▪ If your food tastes bland at first, add flavour with herbs and spices, particularly garlic.
give
▪ Add a bit of orange peel, it you like, and a crushed dried and seeded chilli gives a nice flavour.
▪ This long extract gives one the general flavour of Locke's discourse, besides illustrating some of his main propositions.
▪ The addition of the sun-dried tomatoes gives extra flavour to the sauce.
▪ A few examples may give a flavour.
▪ I use grapeseed oil for mayonnaise, finding that olive oil gives too rich a flavour.
▪ It is a long way short of defining the format, but gives the flavour.
▪ Three typical examples will give a flavour of the nature and range of such problems. 1.
▪ They played a few bars to the listeners at home, just to give them the flavour.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
richly flavoured/scented
▪ These are full-bodied, richly flavoured wines which, with the wines of Sacy, are the best of the Petite Montagne.
strawberry-flavoured/chocolate-flavoured etc
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The wine wasn't bad, but it didn't have much flavour.
▪ This sauce has a really unusual flavour.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Even the regional flavour of the menu has been lost.
▪ I part and sample their famous shellfish, strange in flavour, perfect in appearance.
▪ It's a focal point for people from miles around and has a really continental flavour.
▪ It is certainly easy to prepare, but I always think it lacks the flavour of some other types of rice.
▪ On this occasion, as an added piquancy, the festival promised to have a distinctly radical flavour.
▪ One can not over-emphasise the need to remove any disciplinary flavour from the proposed system.
▪ Tasteless apart from the overwhelming sugar flavour.
▪ Teewurst has a rich and pronounced smoked flavour and is delicious on hot toast or crackers.
II.verb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Cardamoms are used to flavour rice and, after saffron, are the world's most expensive spice.
▪ Cut down on salt and use more herbs to flavour your food. 7.
▪ Dijon mustards are flavoured with spices.
▪ Haslet is a pork meat loaf, which is flavoured with a variety of herbs and spices.
▪ It is sometimes flavoured with peppercorns.
▪ It was noodles flavoured with flakes of dried tuna from Miyako.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
flavour

Flavor \Fla"vor\, n. [OF. fleur, flaur (two syllables), odor, cf. F. fleurer to emit an odor, It. flatore a bad odor, prob. fr. L. flare to bow, whence the sense of exhalation. Cf. Blow.] [Written also flavour.]

  1. That quality of anything which affects the smell; odor; fragrances; as, the flavor of a rose.

  2. That quality of anything which affects the taste; that quality which gratifies the palate; relish; zest; savor; as, the flavor of food or drink.

  3. That which imparts to anything a peculiar odor or taste, gratifying to the sense of smell, or the nicer perceptions of the palate; a substance which flavors.

  4. That quality which gives character to any of the productions of literature or the fine arts.

flavour

flavour \flavour\ v. t. same as flavor, v. and n.. [Chiefly Brit.]

Syn: season, flavor, give flavor.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
flavour

chiefly British English spelling of flavor; for spelling, see -or. Related: Flavoured; flavourful; flavouring.

Wiktionary
flavour

n. 1 The quality produced by the sensation of taste or, especially, of taste and smell in combined effect. 2 A substance used to produce a taste. flavouring. 3 A variety (of taste) attributed to an object. 4 The characteristic quality of something. 5 (context informal English) A kind or type. 6 (context physics English) One of the six types of quarks (top, bottom, strange, charmed, up, and down) or three types of leptons (electron, muon, and tauon). 7 (context archaic English) The quality produced by the sensation of smell; odour; fragrance. vb. (context transitive English) To add flavouring to something.

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WordNet
flavour

v. lend flavor to; "Season the chicken breast after roasting it" [syn: season, flavor]

flavour

  1. n. the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people; "the feel of the city excited him"; "a clergyman improved the tone of the meeting"; "it had the smell of treason" [syn: spirit, tone, feel, feeling, flavor, look, smell]

  2. (physics) the kinds of quarks and antiquarks [syn: flavor]

  3. the taste experience when a savoury condiment is taken into the mouth [syn: relish, flavor, sapidity, savor, savour, smack, tang]

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Usage examples of "flavour".

The several varieties of Cress are stimulating and anti-scorbutic, whilst each contains a particular essential principle, of acrid flavour, and of sharp biting qualities.

Lucksparrow had that it was fortunate another member of the profession should be at hand, and by the success with which the Archdeacon, dizzy and yet equable, concealed his own feelings when his visitor, chatting of Prayer Book Revision, parish councils, and Tithe Acts, imported to them a high eternal flavour which savoured of Deity Itself.

In a mood of daring, and remembering the cool flavour of the borage in his lemonade, he chose the former and was rewarded with a glance of approval from Lady Whitton.

In this chamber some half dozen persons were seated in the Eastern fashion, and smoking either the choice tobaccoes of Syria through the cherry-wood or jasmine tube of a Turkish or Egyptian chibouque, or inhaling through rose-water the more artificial flavour of the nargileh, which is the hookah of the Levant.

Besides containing citric and malic acids, the Raspberry affords a volatile oil of aromatic flavour, with crystallisable sugar, pectin, colouring matter, mucus, some mineral salts, and water.

Thus, several of the explicit comments and formulations often cited in literary history contain specific denigrations of ideas as such and have a distinct anti-intellectual flavour to them.

Ty does know how to build perfect machines, in the manner that a human cook can make a perfect stew without the slightest knowledge of how all the flavours affect each other or even how the human nose detects flavour.

It enables the planter to produce a drier bean, and one which has, when roasted, a finer flavour, colour, and aroma, than the unfermented.

These leaves are sometimes boiled, and eaten, but they possess a strong, disagreeable flavour.

They have a strong flavour of the plant, and are sometimes eaten by the peasantry of France.

According to these books, the result of having lived with a brain which we think we direct using a kind of tiller, but which actually is continually affected by cross-winds, occasional storms, rain and warm sun that provokes us into lazy days, is that we have evolved a series of memories with different flavours.

Or, each of us has a personal history which we explain internally by feelings attached to emotional memories, so we have evolved a series of memories with different flavours.

Cameroon cacao sometimes has an objectionable odour and flavour, which may be due to its being fermented in an unripe condition, for, as Dr.

On all the house there is a cold, blank smell like the smell of a little church, though something dryer, suggesting that the dead and buried Dedlocks walk there in the long nights and leave the flavour of their graves behind them.

Joy Hall spunk has several curious properties besides the flavour of egg nog.