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# flour

«flour» in Mova's school dictionary: **a white or brown powder made by grinding grain like…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flour/#m1)

2) To flour is to cover with flour: «Flour the table before you roll the dough». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flour/#m2)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flour/#x1)
- She already put in 3 cups of flour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flour/#x2)
- How many more cups of flour does she need? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flour/#x3)
- He bought 5 pounds of flour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flour/#x4)
- Mix 200 grams of flour with two eggs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flour/#x5)
- Flour is made by grinding wheat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flour/#x6)
- My hands were white with flour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flour/#x7)
- Flour the table so the dough doesn't stick. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flour/#x8)
- Vasilissa took flour, kneaded dough, and made a pie. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flour/#x9)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/286-from-field-to-plate-wheat-flour-and-bread/1/)
- [Windmills and watermills once ground grain between big stones; today most flour is made in huge roller mills.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/286-from-field-to-plate-wheat-flour-and-bread/8/)
- [White flour is made from the inside of the grain, while wholemeal flour uses the whole grain, so it has more fibre.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/286-from-field-to-plate-wheat-flour-and-bread/9/)
- [A sieve lets fine flour through and keeps lumps; long ago gold miners used pans and sieves to wash gold from river gravel.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/8-separating-mixtures/6/)
- [Raw eggs, raw flour and uncooked meat can carry germs, so they are eaten only when properly cooked.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/80-sleep-and-healthy-eating/18/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «flour» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flour/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.