flour

Everyday

1. Flour is a white or brown powder made by grinding grain like wheat; it is used to make bread, cakes and pasta. tree →
2. To flour is to cover with flour: «Flour the table before you roll the dough». tree →

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 →
• She already put in 3 cups of flour. tree →
• How many more cups of flour does she need? tree →
• He bought 5 pounds of flour. tree →
• Mix 200 grams of flour with two eggs. tree →
• Flour is made by grinding wheat. tree →
• My hands were white with flour. tree →
• Flour the table so the dough doesn't stick. tree →
• Vasilissa took flour, kneaded dough, and made a pie. tree →

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 Jewish tradition

It is the fine flour mixed with oil for the grain offering.

Interpretation. The meal-offering was a gift of the poor as well as the rich, and tradition counts it as precious to God. It was usually unleavened.

Examples

• And if thy offering be a meal-offering of the stewing-pan, it shall be made of fine flour with oil. (Torah LEV.2.7, JPS 1917) tree →
• and their meal-offering, fine flour mingled with oil, three tenth parts for the bullock, two tenth part for the ram, (Torah NUM.29.3, JPS 1917) tree →
• And if thy offering be a meal-offering baked on a griddle, it shall be of fine flour unleavened, mingled with oil. (Torah LEV.2.5, JPS 1917) tree →
• And Solomon's provision for one day was thirty measures of fine flour, and threescore measures of meal; (Prophets 1KI.5.2, JPS 1917) tree →
• So a measure of fine flour was sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, according to the word of the LORD. (Prophets 2KI.7.16, JPS 1917) tree →
• And the woman had a fatted calf in the house; and she made haste, and killed it; and she took flour, and kneaded it, and did bake unleavened bread thereof; (Prophets 1SA.28.24, JPS 1917) tree →

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.