Flour vs Oat - What's the difference?
flour | oat |
Powder obtained by grinding or milling cereal grains, especially wheat, and used to bake bread, cakes, and pastry.
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(uncountable) Widely cultivated cereal grass, typically Avena sativa .
(countable) Any of the numerous species, varieties, or cultivars of any of several similar grain plants in genus Avena .
(usually, as plural) The seeds of the oat, harvested as a food crop.
As nouns the difference between flour and oat
is that flour is powder obtained by grinding or milling cereal grains, especially wheat, and used to bake bread, cakes, and pastry while oat is widely cultivated cereal grass, typically Avena sativa.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 .
Synonyms
* smeddum, plain flour, wheat flour, white flourDerived terms
* self-raising flour, self-rising flourSee also
* bran * farina * meal * smeddumAnagrams
* * 1000 English basic words ----oat
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(wikipedia oat)Noun
- The oat stalks made good straw.
- The main forms of oat are meal and bran.
- World trade in oat is increasing.
- The wild red oat''' is thought to be the ancestor of modern food '''oats .
