flavor : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: flavor	by the DICT Development Group
5 results for flavor
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
flavor n the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people; "the feel of the city excited him"; "a clergyman improved the tone of the meeting"; "it had the smell of treason" Synonym(s): spirit, tone, feel, feeling, flavor, flavour, look, smell the taste experience when a savoury condiment is taken into the mouth Synonym(s): relish, flavor, flavour, sapidity, savor, savour, smack, nip, tang (physics) the six kinds of quarks Synonym(s): flavor, flavour v lend flavor to; "Season the chicken breast after roasting it" Synonym(s): season, flavor, flavour
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Flavor \Fla"vor\, n. [OF. fleur, flaur (two syllables), odor, cf. F. fleurer to emit an odor, It. flatore a bad odor, prob. fr. L. flare to bow, whence the sense of exhalation. Cf. {Blow}.] [Written also {flavour}.] 1. That quality of anything which affects the smell; odor; fragrances; as, the flavor of a rose. 2. That quality of anything which affects the taste; that quality which gratifies the palate; relish; zest; savor; as, the flavor of food or drink. 3. That which imparts to anything a peculiar odor or taste, gratifying to the sense of smell, or the nicer perceptions of the palate; a substance which flavors. 4. That quality which gives character to any of the productions of literature or the fine arts.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Flavor \Fla"vor\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Flavored}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Flavoring}.] To give flavor to; to add something (as salt or a spice) to, to give character or zest.
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
flavor n. 1. [common] Variety, type, kind. "DDT commands come in two flavors." "These lights come in two flavors, big red ones and small green ones." "Linux is a flavor of Unix" See {vanilla}. 2. The attribute that causes something to be {flavorful}. Usually used in the phrase "yields additional flavor". "This convention yields additional flavor by allowing one to print text either right-side-up or upside-down." See {vanilla}. This usage was certainly reinforced by the terminology of quantum chromodynamics, in which quarks (the constituents of, e.g., protons) come in six flavors (up, down, strange, charm, top, bottom) and three colors (red, blue, green) -- however, hackish use of `flavor' at MIT predated QCD. 3. The term for `class' (in the object-oriented sense) in the LISP Machine Flavors system. Though the Flavors design has been superseded (notably by the Common LISP CLOS facility), the term `flavor' is still used as a general synonym for `class' by some LISP hackers.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
flavor US spelling of "{flavour}". [{Jargon File}] (1997-03-18)