单词 | flavor |
释义 | flavor (once / 537 pages) 1nv 2n Flavor is the way something tastes. If an ice cream shop offers 50 flavors, each one of them will taste different. The flavor of your soup can be adjusted by adding salt — and when you add ingredients to change a food's taste, you can say you flavor it. From the flavor of food comes the sense of flavor meaning "atmosphere" or "feeling." You could say, for example, that you're not crazy about a particular clothing shop because it has such a glitzy, expensive flavor. Flavor initially meant "smell," from the Vulgar Latin flator, "odor." WORD FAMILYflavor: flavored, flavorer, flavorful, flavoring, flavorless, flavorous, flavors, flavorsome+/flavored: nonflavored, unflavored/flavorer: flavorers/flavorful: flavorfully/flavoring: flavorings/flavorless: flavorlessness/flavorsome: flavorsomely, flavorsomeness USAGE EXAMPLESOne such advertisement declared unagi “the irresistible flavor of summer.” The New Yorker(Jan 02, 2017) Flavor Flav, whose son attended the school, showed up to watch. The New Yorker(Jan 01, 2017) It is vegan, and it tastes like tapioca flavored with coconut. New York Times(Dec 28, 2016) 1 1n the taste experience when a savoury condiment is taken into the mouth Syn|Hypo|Hyper flavour, nip, relish, sapidity, savor, savour, smack, tang lemon a distinctive tart flavor characteristic of lemons vanillaa distinctive fragrant flavor characteristic of vanilla beans gustatory perception, gustatory sensation, taste, taste perception, taste sensation the sensation that results when taste buds in the tongue and throat convey information about the chemical composition of a soluble stimulus 2n the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people Syn|Hypo|Hyper feel, feeling, flavour, look, smell, spirit, tone Hollywood a flashy vulgar tone or atmosphere believed to be characteristic of the American film industry Zeitgeistthe spirit of the time; the spirit characteristic of an age or generation ambiance, ambience, atmosphere a particular environment or surrounding influence 3v lend flavor to 2Syn|Hypo flavour, season sauce dress (food) with a relish curryseason with a mixture of spices; typical of Indian cooking resinateimpregnate with resin to give a special flavor to spice, spice up, zestadd herbs or spices to savor, savourgive taste to saltadd salt to gingeradd ginger to in order to add flavor pepperadd pepper to n (physics) the six kinds of quarks Syn|Hypo|Hyper flavour charm (physics) one of the six flavors of quark strangeness(physics) one of the six flavors of quark form, kind, sort, variety a category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality |
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