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“Flour” or “Flower”

flour / flower are similar-sounding terms with different meanings (referred to as homophones). To better understand the differences, see below for definitions, pronunciation guides, and example sentences using each term.

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Definitions

What each term means

Same sound, different spellings and meanings, shown with a pronunciation guide for each term.

flour f·l·AW·er

  • nounfine powdery foodstuff obtained by grinding and sifting the meal of a cereal grain.
  • verbcover with flour.
  • verbconvert grain into flour.

flower f·l·AW·er

  • nouna plant cultivated for its blooms or blossoms.
  • nounreproductive organ of angiosperm plants especially one having showy or colorful parts.
  • nounthe period of greatest prosperity or productivity.
Usage

Examples in context

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“flour”

  • …soap factory, the Grands Moulins flour mills and the Nesher cement…
  • …industries included glass making and flour milling.
  • …grind up the seeds for flour, boil the green pods with…
  • …tea made by adding kudzu flour to hot water
  • Flour milling continued at the Rank…
  • …soybean and cottonseed oil, corn flour, disodium phosphate, lactose, natural and…
  • …on Saint Helena because all flour products almost entirely went to…
  • …Borowsky became a supplier of flour and related products for bakeries.
  • …drove two pairs of millstones, flour dressers, wheat cleaners and other
  • Milling grain into flour was a traditional industry in…

“flower”

  • Asphondylia florea – flower gall
  • …Munsey Park and part of Flower Hill.
  • A purple flower is shown.
  • …(7 Wurlitzer Jukebox – WJ01, Flower Me!
  • …of the original farmhouses in Flower Hill are still in existence:…
  • …start falling again, the purple flower is shown again.
  • …the similarity in the individual flowers, dismissing the variations in plant…
  • …both demolished, were also in Flower Hill, closer to the railroad
  • Wong Lung-wai as Plum Flower Bandit
  • The inconspicuous flower is greenish white, with four

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