Flour is a fine powder made from grains like wheat. People use it to cook many foods like bread, cakes, and cookies.
I buy flour to make bread at home.
She uses flour to bake a cake.
Besides wheat, flour can come from many plants like rice or almonds. These flours are often used for special diets.
Rice flour is good for gluten-free bread.
Almond flour is used in sweet recipes.
In some industries, flour means a fine powder made from materials like minerals. It helps clean or process other things.
The factory uses flour to clean the machines.
Some flours are made from minerals for industry.
Sometimes, flour means the small amount you put on a surface to stop food from sticking. It is called flouring or dusting.
Add a flour before rolling the dough.
Flour helps stop the dough from sticking.
To flour means to put a thin layer of flour on something. This stops food from sticking when cooking or baking.
She flours the board before baking bread.
They floured the chicken before frying it.
Flour once meant any soft powder from materials like wood or rock. This use is now old and uncommon.
The miner found flour in the cave dust.
Flour covers the surface after drilling rock.
