Flour vs Aleurometer - What's the difference?
flour | aleurometer |
Powder obtained by grinding or milling cereal grains, especially wheat, and used to bake bread, cakes, and pastry.
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Powder of other material.
An instrument used for the examination of crude gluten as to its power of distending under the influence of heat, as a means of judging of the value of a flour for breadmaking.
English words suffixed with -meter
As nouns the difference between flour and aleurometer
is that flour is powder obtained by grinding or milling cereal grains, especially wheat, and used to bake bread, cakes, and pastry while aleurometer is an instrument used for the examination of crude gluten as to its power of distending under the influence of heat, as a means of judging of the value of a flour for breadmaking.As a verb flour
is to apply flour to something; to cover with flour.flour
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Alternative forms
* flower (obsolete)Noun
(wikipedia flour) (en-noun)citation, passage=Everything a living animal could do to destroy and to desecrate bed and walls had been done. […] A canister of flour from the kitchen had been thrown at the looking-glass and lay like trampled snow over the remains of a decent blue suit with the lining ripped out which lay on top of the ruin of a plastic wardrobe.}}
- wood flour , produced by sanding wood
- mustard flour
- that nobody is wished to see my dead body. & that no murnurs walk behind me at my funeral. & that no flours be planted on my grave.'' — Thomas Hardy, ''The Mayor of Casterbridge .