flour
part of speech
noun (flour); verb (flour, floured)
meaning for a pupil
1) Flour is a white or brown powder made by grinding grain like wheat; it is used to make bread, cakes and pasta. tree →
2) To flour is to cover with flour: «Flour the table before you roll the dough». tree →
sense in the lessons
an amount in a recipe, measured in cups, grams or pounds; some is already put in and some is still needed; phrases: «cups of flour», «a bag of flour», «plain flour», «self-raising flour»
examples
- A recipe calls for 9 cups of flour. tree →
- She already put in 3 cups of flour. tree →
- How many more cups of flour does she need? tree →
- He bought 5 pounds of flour. tree →
- Mix 200 grams of flour with two eggs. tree →
- Flour is made by grinding wheat. tree →
- My hands were white with flour. tree →
- Flour the table so the dough doesn't stick. tree →
- Vasilissa took flour, kneaded dough, and made a pie. tree →
note
Uncountable: some flour, a cup of flour (not «a flour», not «flours»). The thing measured; the number is in cups or pounds. «needs N, already put in M» gives N − M. Trap: sugar and flour amounts come in the same recipe; read which one is asked. Trap: «flour» and «flower» sound the same.
In the corpora
- Wheat is a tall grass whose seeds, the grains, are ground into flour.
- Windmills and watermills once ground grain between big stones; today most flour is made in huge roller mills.
- White flour is made from the inside of the grain, while wholemeal flour uses the whole grain, so it has more fibre.
- A sieve lets fine flour through and keeps lumps; long ago gold miners used pans and sieves to wash gold from river gravel.
- Raw eggs, raw flour and uncooked meat can carry germs, so they are eaten only when properly cooked.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «flour» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.