flavour

4 definitions found

flavour - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     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.
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     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.
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     4. That quality which gives character to any of the
        productions of literature or the fine arts.
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  flavour \flavour\ v. t.
     same as flavor, v. and n.. [Chiefly Brit.]
  
     Syn: season, flavor, give flavor.
          [WordNet 1.5]

flavour - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  flavour
      n 1: 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, flavour, look, smell]
      2: (physics) the six kinds of quarks [syn: flavor, flavour]
      3: the taste experience when a savoury condiment is taken into
         the mouth [syn: relish, flavor, flavour, sapidity,
         savor, savour, smack, nip, tang]
      v 1: lend flavor to; "Season the chicken breast after roasting
           it" [syn: season, flavor, flavour]

flavour - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  flavour
  flavorful
  
     <jargon> (US: flavor) 1. Variety, type, kind.  "DDT commands
     come in two flavors."  "These lights come in two flavors, big
     red ones and small green ones."  See vanilla.
  
     2. The attribute that causes something to be flavourful.
     Usually used in the phrase "yields additional flavour".  "This
     convention yields additional flavor by allowing one to print
     text either right-side-up or upside-down."  See vanilla.
  
     This usage was certainly reinforced by the terminology of
     quantum chromodynamics, in which quarks (the constituents of,
     e.g. protons) come in six flavors (up, down, strange, charm,
     top, bottom) and three colours (red, blue, green), however,
     hackish use of "flavor" at MIT predated QCD.
  
     3. The term for "class" (in the object-oriented sense) in
     the LISP Machine Flavors system.  Though the Flavors
     design has been superseded (notably by the Common LISP
     CLOS facility), the term "flavor" is still used as a general
     synonym for "class" by some Lisp hackers.
  
     (1994-11-01)