different between flavor vs flavoring

English

Alternative forms

• flavour (British spelling)

Etymology

From Middle English flavour meaning "smell, odour", usually pleasing, borrowed from Old French flaour (“smell, odour”), from Vulgar Latin *fl?tor (“odour, that which blows”), from Latin fl?tor (“blower”), from fl?, fl?re (“to blow, puff”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?fle?v?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?fle?v?/
• Rhymes: -e?v?(r)

Noun

flavor (countable and uncountable, plural flavors) (American spelling)

1. The quality produced by the sensation of taste or, especially, of taste and smell in combined effect.

   The flavor of this apple pie is delicious.

2. A substance used to produce a taste. Flavoring.

   Flavor was added to the pudding.

3. A variety (of taste) attributed to an object.

   What flavor of bubble gum do you enjoy?

4. The characteristic quality of something.

   the flavor of an experience

5. (informal) A kind or type.

   Debian is one flavor of the Linux operating system.

6. (particle physics) One of the six types of quarks (top, bottom, strange, charmed, up, and down) or three types of leptons (electron, muon, and tauon).
7. (archaic) The quality produced by the sensation of smell; odour; fragrance.

   the flavor of a rose

   • (Can we clean up⁽⁺⁾ this sense?)

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Verb

flavor (third-person singular simple present flavors, present participle flavoring, simple past and past participle flavored)

1. (American spelling, transitive) To add flavoring to something.

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Derived terms

See also

• gustatory
• gustation

English

Alternative forms

• flavouring (British spelling)

Noun

flavoring (countable and uncountable, plural flavorings)

1. (American spelling) Something that gives flavor, usually a food ingredient.

   This soda has an artificial flavoring, I can taste the after taste.

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Verb

flavoring

1. present participle of flavor