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Flavor and Scent Definitions

Flavor

Distinctive taste; savor
A flavor of smoke in bacon.

Scent

A distinctive, often agreeable odor.

Flavor

A distinctive yet intangible quality felt to be characteristic of a given thing
"What matters in literature ... is surely the idiosyncratic, the individual, the flavor or color of a particular human suffering" (Harold Bloom).

Scent

A perfume
An expensive French scent.

Flavor

A flavoring
Contains no artificial flavors.
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Scent

An odor left by the passing of an animal.

Flavor

Any of six types of quark (down, up, strange, charm, bottom, top), distinguished by generation, electric charge, and mass.

Scent

The trail of a hunted animal or fugitive
The hounds are on the scent.

Flavor

Any of six types of lepton (electron, electron neutrino, muon, muon neutrino, tauon, tau neutrino), distinguished by generation, electric charge, and mass.

Scent

The sense of smell
A bear's keen scent.
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Flavor

(Archaic) Aroma; fragrance.

Scent

A hint of something imminent; a suggestion
Caught the scent of a reconciliation.

Flavor

To give flavor to.

Scent

To perceive or identify by the sense of smell
Dogs scenting their prey.

Flavor

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.
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Scent

To suspect or detect
Scented danger.

Flavor

A substance used to produce a taste. Flavoring.
Flavor was added to the pudding.

Scent

To fill with a pleasant odor; perfume
When blossoms scent the air.

Flavor

A variety (of taste) attributed to an object.
What flavor of bubble gum do you enjoy?

Scent

To hunt prey by means of the sense of smell. Used of hounds.

Flavor

The characteristic quality of something.
The flavor of an experience

Scent

A distinctive smell.
The scent of flowers / of a skunk
To give off / release / exude a scent
To breathe in / inhale a scent

Flavor

(informal) A kind or type.
Debian is one flavor of the Linux operating system.

Scent

A smell left by an animal that may be used for tracing.
The dogs picked up / caught the scent but then quickly lost it.

Flavor

(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).

Scent

The sense of smell.
I believe the bloodhound has the best scent of all dogs.

Flavor

(archaic) The quality produced by the sensation of smell; odour; fragrance.
The flavor of a rose

Scent

A substance (usually liquid) created to provide a pleasant smell.
A scent shop
A scent bazaar

Flavor

To add flavoring to something.

Scent

(figuratively) Any trail or trace that can be followed to find something or someone, such as the paper left behind in a paperchase.
The minister's off-hand remark put journalists on the scent of a cover-up.
The tip put the detectives on a false / the wrong scent.

Flavor

That quality of anything which affects the smell; odor; fragrances; as, the flavor of a rose.

Scent

(obsolete) Sense, perception.

Flavor

That quality of anything which affects the taste; that quality which gratifies the palate; relish; zest; savor; as, the flavor of food or drink.

Scent

(transitive) To detect the scent of; to discern by the sense of smell.
The hounds scented the fox in the woods.

Flavor

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.

Scent

(ambitransitive) To inhale in order to detect the scent of (something).

Flavor

That quality which gives character to any of the productions of literature or the fine arts.

Scent

To have a suspicion of; to detect the possibility of (something).
I scented trouble when I saw them running down the hill towards me.

Flavor

To give flavor to; to add something (as salt or a spice) to, to give character or zest.

Scent

(transitive) To impart an odour to, to cause to have a particular smell.
Scent the air with burning sage before you begin your meditation.

Flavor

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

Scent

To have a smell; (figuratively) to give an impression (of something).

Flavor

The taste experience when a savoury condiment is taken into the mouth

Scent

To hunt animals by means of the sense of smell.

Flavor

(physics) the kinds of quarks and antiquarks

Scent

To perceive by the olfactory organs; to smell; as, to scent game, as a hound does.
Methinks I scent the morning air.

Flavor

Lend flavor to;
Season the chicken breast after roasting it

Scent

To imbue or fill with odor; to perfume.
Balm from a silver box distilled around,Shall all bedew the roots, and scent the sacred ground.

Scent

To have a smell.
Thunderbolts . . . do scent strongly of brimstone.

Scent

To hunt animals by means of the sense of smell.

Scent

That which, issuing from a body, affects the olfactory organs of animals; odor; smell; as, the scent of an orange, or of a rose; the scent of musk.
With lavish hand diffuses scents ambrosial.

Scent

Specifically, the odor left by an animal on the ground in passing over it; as, dogs find or lose the scent; hence, course of pursuit; track of discovery.
He gained the observations of innumerable ages, and traveled upon the same scent into Ethiopia.

Scent

The power of smelling; the sense of smell; as, a hound of nice scent; to divert the scent.

Scent

A distinctive odor that is pleasant

Scent

An odor left in passing by which a person or animal can be traced

Scent

Any property detected by the olfactory system

Scent

Cause to smell or be smelly

Scent

Catch the scent of; get wind of;
The dog nosed out the drugs

Scent

Apply perfume to;
She perfumes herself every day

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