different between flavoring vs seasoning

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.

Translations

Verb

flavoring

1. present participle of flavor

English

Etymology 1

From season +? -ing.

Noun

seasoning (countable and uncountable, plural seasonings)

1. (cooking) Something used to add taste or flavour to food, such as salt and pepper or other condiment, herb or spice.
2. (figuratively, by extension) Anything added to increase enjoyment.
3. A coat of polymerized oil inside a cooking vessel which renders the surface non-stick.
4. (archaic) An alcoholic intoxication.

   Some of our gentlemen officers, happening to stop at a tavern, or rather a sort of grogshop, took such a seasoning that two or three of them became “quite frisky.”

5. In diamond-cutting, the charging of the laps or wheels with diamond dust and oil.

Synonyms

• (intoxication): drunkenness

Hyponyms

• See also Thesaurus:seasoning

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English seasonyng, present participle of Middle English sesounen (“to season”), equivalent to season +? -ing.

Verb

seasoning

1. present participle of season

Anagrams

• snogaines