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Odor vs Flavour - What's the difference?

odor | flavour |

As nouns the difference between odor and flavour

is that odor is any smell, whether fragrant or offensive; scent; perfume while flavour is the quality produced by the sensation of taste or, especially, of taste and smell in combined effect.

As a verb flavour is

to add flavouring to something.

odor

English

(wikipedia odor)

Alternative forms

* odour

Noun

  • Any smell, whether fragrant or offensive; scent; perfume.
  • * 1895 , H. G. Wells, The Time Machine Chapter X
    • Now, I still think that for this box of matches to have escaped the wear of time for immemorial years was a strange, and for me, a most fortunate thing. Yet oddly enough I found here a far more unlikely substance, and that was camphor. I found it in a sealed jar, that, by chance, I supposed had been really hermetically sealed. I fancied at first the stuff was paraffin wax, and smashed the jar accordingly. But the odour of camphor was unmistakable.
  • (figuratively) A strong, pervasive quality.
  • Esteem; repute.

    • Usage notes

    In the United States, the term "odor" often has a negative connotation. Preferred terms for a pleasant odor are "fragrance", "scent", or "aroma".

    Synonyms

    * (any smell) perfume, scent * (esteem) esteem, repute * See also

    Derived terms

    * odorous * odorously * odorousness

    Anagrams

    * ----

    flavour

    English

    (wikipedia flavour)

    Alternative forms

    * flavor (American spelling)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The quality produced by the sensation of taste or, especially, of taste and smell in combined effect.
    • The flavour of this apple pie is delicious.
  • A substance used to produce a taste. Flavouring.
    • Flavour was added to the pudding.
  • A variety (of taste) attributed to an object.
    • What flavour of bubble gum do you enjoy?
  • The characteristic quality of something.
    • the flavour of an experience
  • (informal) A kind or type.
    • Debian is one flavour of the Linux operating system.
  • (physics) One of the six types of quarks (top, bottom, strange, charmed, up, and down) or three types of leptons (electron, muon, and tauon).
  • (archaic) The quality produced by the sensation of smell; odour; fragrance.
    • the flavour of a rose

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To add flavouring to something.

    • Derived terms

    * flavoured * flavourful * flavouring * flavourless * flavour of the month * flavour of the week * flavoursome

    See also

    * gustatory * gustation