Flavor

6 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.


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     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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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Flavor \Fla"vor\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Flavored}; p. pr. & vb.
     n. {Flavoring}.]
     To give flavor to; to add something (as salt or a spice) to,
     to give character or zest.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

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

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  133 Moby Thesaurus words for "flavor":
     aftertaste, air, ambiance, ambience, aroma, atmosphere, attribute,
     badge, besprinkle, bitter, brand, breath, breathe, brew, cachet,
     cast, character, characteristic, color, condiment, condiments,
     configuration, cut, decoct, definite odor, detectable odor,
     differentia, differential, distinctive feature, dredge, dye,
     earmark, effluvium, emanation, entincture, essence, exhalation,
     extract, feature, feel, feeling, figure, flavorer, flavoring,
     fragrance, fume, gust, hallmark, hint, idiocrasy, idiosyncrasy,
     imbrue, imbue, impregnate, impress, impression, index,
     individualism, infiltrate, infuse, instill, keynote, leaven,
     lineaments, mannerism, mark, marking, mold, nature, odor, palate,
     particularity, peculiarity, penetrate, pepper, permeate, pervade,
     piquancy, property, quality, quirk, redolence, relish, salt,
     sapidity, sapor, saturate, sauce, savor, savoriness, scent, seal,
     season, seasoner, seasoning, sense, shape, singularity, smack,
     smell, soupcon, sour, specialty, spice, spirit, spoor, stamp,
     steep, stench, stomach, style, subtle odor, suffuse, suggestion,
     sweet, taint, tang, taste, tastiness, temper, tincture, tinge,
     token, tongue, tooth, touch, trace, trail, trait, transfuse, trick,
     whiff, zest
  
  

From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:

  flavor n. 1. [common] Variety, type, kind. "DDT commands come in two
     flavors." "These lights come in two flavors, big red ones and small
     green ones." "Linux is a flavor of Unix" See {vanilla}. 2. The attribute
     that causes something to be {flavorful}. Usually used in the phrase
     "yields additional flavor". "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 colors (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.
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  flavor
       
           US spelling of "{flavour}".
       
          [{Jargon File}]
       
          (1997-03-18)