Meaning of flavor | Babel Free

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1. The quality produced by the sensation of taste or, especially, of taste and smell in combined effect.
   US, countable, uncountable
2. Flavoring, a substance used to produce a taste.
   US, countable, uncountable
3. To give flavor to.
4. A variety (of taste) attributed to an object (food, candy, chewing gum, medicine, etc).
   US, countable, uncountable
5. To impart flavor to:season.
6. The characteristic quality of something.
   US, countable, uncountable
7. to give flavour to. She flavoured the cake with lemon. geur; gegeur يُعْطي نَكْهَةً овкусявам aromatizar ochutit würzen krydre; sætte smag på αρωματίζωsazonar, condimentar maitsestama چاشنی زدن به maustaa parfumer לְתַבֵּל खास स्वाद बनाना začiniti (meg)ízesít memberi rasa bragðbæta aromatizzare, insaporire 味を付ける 맛을 들이다 (pa)gardinti, ádëti kokio prieskoni pielikt garšvielas memberi perasa op smaak brengenkrydre, smake tilprzyprawić چاشنی خورل aromatizar a aromatiza приправлять ochutiť začiniti...
8. A kind or type.
   US, countable, figuratively, informal, uncountable
9. anything used to give a particular taste. lemon flavouring. geursel نَكْهَه подравка aroma příchuť, koření die Würze smagsstof αρωματική ουσία condimento, esencia maitseaine چاشنی mauste parfumתבלין स्वादिष्ट बनाने के लिये मिलाया गया पदार्थ začin, primjesa ízesítés penyedap makanan bragðefni, krydd aroma 調味料 독특한 맛 prieskonis garšviela perasa smaakstofkrydder, smaksstoffprzyprawa چاشنی aroma aromă ароматическое вещество príchuť začimba, dišava začin smaksättning เครื่องปรุงรส tat verici şey 調味...
10. Style.
    US, countable, slang, uncountable
11. sabor, gusto.
12. One of the six types of quarks (top, bottom, strange, charmed, up, and down) or three types of leptons (electron, muon, and tauon).
    US, countable, particle, uncountable
13. Distinctive taste; savor: a flavor of smoke in bacon.
14. The quality produced by the sensation of smell; odour; fragrance.
    US, archaic, countable, uncountable
15. A distinctive yet intangible quality felt to be characteristic of a given thing: "What matters in literature ... is surely the idiosyncratic, the individual, the flavor or color of a particular human suffering" (Harold Bloom).
16. A flavoring: contains no artificial flavors.
17. Physics a. Any of six types of quark (down, up, strange, charm, bottom, top), distinguished by generation, electric charge, and mass.
    Physics
18. Archaic Aroma; fragrance.
    Archaic

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Examples

“The flavor of this apple pie is delicious.”

“Flavor was added to the pudding.”

“What flavor of bubble gum do you most enjoy?”

“My favorite flavor of lip balm is called mystical minty camomile.”

“the flavor of an experience”

“I'd like to read from a pair of letters that we got recently at GCN to give you the flavor of the issues gay prisoners have to deal with.”

“Debian is one flavor of the Linux operating system.”

“Who brings the flavor? / That's me, that's me / Who brings the flavor? / That's me. I got it”

“the flavor of a rose”

“It was damp, it was not free from dry rot, there was a flavour of rats in it, and it was the gloomy victim of that indescribable decay which settles on all the work of man’s hands whenever it’s not turned to man’s account.”

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