flavour

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flavour (plural flavours) (British)

  1. The quality produced by the sensation of taste.
    The flavour of this apple pie is delicious.
  2. A substance used to produce a taste. Flavouring.
    Flavour was added to the pudding.
  3. A variety of tastes attributed to an object.
    What flavour of bubble gum do you enjoy?
  4. The characteristic quality of something.
    the flavour of an experience
  5. (informal) A kind or type.
    Debian is one flavour of the Linux operating system.
  6. In physics, a term used to name the six types of quarks (top, bottom, strange, charmed, up, and down) or three types of leptons (electron, muon, and tauon).

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the quality produced by the sensation of taste
a substance used to produce a taste
a variety of tastes attributed to an object'
the characteristic quality of something
a type of something
in physics, the types of quarks or leptons

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flavour (third-person singular simple present flavours, present participle flavouring, simple past and past participle flavoured)

  1. (transitive) To add flavouring to something.

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to add flavouring to something

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