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Flour vs Atta - What's the difference?

flour | atta |

As verbs the difference between flour and atta

is that flour is to apply flour to something; to cover with flour while atta is to be.

As a noun flour

is powder obtained by grinding or milling cereal grains, especially wheat, and used to bake bread, cakes, and pastry.

flour

English

Alternative forms

* flower (obsolete)

Noun

(wikipedia flour) (en-noun)
  • Powder obtained by grinding or milling cereal grains, especially wheat, and used to bake bread, cakes, and pastry.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
  • , title=(The China Governess) , chapter=Foreword 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.}}
  • and certain bleaching agents.
  • Powder of other material.
  • 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 .

    Synonyms

    * smeddum, plain flour, wheat flour, white flour

    Derived terms

    * self-raising flour, self-rising flour

    See also

    * bran * farina * meal * smeddum

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To apply flour to something; to cover with flour.
  • Anagrams

    * * 1000 English basic words ----

    atta

    English

    Etymology 1

    Determiner

    (en determiner)
  • that's the; that's a
  • Usage notes
    Used only in expressions like atta boy and atta girl.
    Derived terms
    * attaboy, atta boy * attadog, atta dog * attagal, attagirl, atta girl

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl)

    Noun

    (-)
  • A type of wholegrain flour from the Indian subcontinent.
  • Anagrams

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