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Flavour vs. Favor

Flavour and Favor Definitions

Flavour

Variant of flavor.

Favor

A gracious, friendly, or obliging act that is freely granted
Do someone a favor.

Flavour

Standard spelling of flavor#Noun
The flavour of this apple pie is delicious.
Flavour was added to the pudding.
What flavour of bubble gum do you enjoy?
The flavour of an experience.
Debian is one flavour of the Linux operating system.

Favor

Friendly or favorable regard; approval or support
Won the favor of the monarch.
Looked with favor on the plan.

Flavour

Standard spelling of flavor#Verb

Favor

A state of being held in such regard
A style currently in favor.
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Flavour

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

Favor

Unfair partiality; favoritism
The referees were warned not to show favor to either team.

Flavour

(physics) the kinds of quarks and antiquarks

Favor

A privilege or concession
Had the favor of talking with her for an hour.

Flavour

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

Favor

Favors Permission to engage in sexual activity, especially when granted by a woman to a male partner.
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Flavour

Lend flavor to;
Season the chicken breast after roasting it

Favor

Something given as a token of love, affection, or remembrance.

Favor

A small decorative gift given to each guest at a party.

Favor

Advantage; benefit
Sailed under favor of cloudless skies.

Favor

Behalf; interest
An error in our favor.

Favor

(Obsolete) A communication, especially a letter.
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Favor

Aspect or appearance.

Favor

Countenance; face.

Favor

(Obsolete) A facial feature.

Favor

To perform a kindness or service for; oblige.

Favor

To have a liking for; be partial to; prefer
Favored coffee over tea at breakfast.
Favored the suitor with the quick wit.

Favor

To approve, advocate, or support
Economists who favor free trade.

Favor

To show partiality or unfair preference to
Thought the law favored men over women.

Favor

To believe to be most likely to succeed
The Tigers are favored to win the championship.

Favor

To be advantageous to; make more likely to be successful
Darkness favored their escape. The climate favors conifers.

Favor

To speed up or otherwise increase the success of (a chemical process or pathway)
Increasing the pressure favors the reaction.

Favor

To treat with care; be gentle with
Favored my wounded leg.

Favor

Chiefly Southern US To resemble in appearance
She favors her father.

Favor

To resemble another in appearance
She and her father favor.

Favor

A kind or helpful deed; an instance of voluntarily assisting (someone).
He did me a favor when he took the time to drive me home.

Favor

Goodwill; benevolent regard.
She enjoyed the queen's favor.
To fall out of favor

Favor

A small gift; a party favor.
At the holiday dinner, the hosts had set a favor by each place setting.
A marriage favour is a bunch or knot of white ribbons or white flowers worn at a wedding.

Favor

Mildness or mitigation of punishment; lenity.

Favor

The object of regard; person or thing favoured.

Favor

(obsolete) Appearance; look; countenance; face.

Favor

(legal) Partiality; bias

Favor

(archaic) A letter, a written communication.

Favor

(obsolete) Anything worn publicly as a pledge of a woman's favor.

Favor

(obsolete) A ribbon or similar small item that is worn as an adornment, especially in celebration of an event.

Favor

To look upon fondly; to prefer.

Favor

To use more often.

Favor

To encourage, conduce to

Favor

To do a favor [noun sense 1] for; to show beneficence toward.
Would you favor us with a poetry reading?

Favor

To treat with care.
Favoring your sore leg will only injure the other one.

Favor

To resemble; especially, to look like (another person).

Favor

Kind regard; propitious aspect; countenance; friendly disposition; kindness; good will.
Hath crawled into the favor of the king.

Favor

The act of countenancing, or the condition of being countenanced, or regarded propitiously; support; promotion; befriending.
But found no favor in his lady's eyes.
And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and man.

Favor

A kind act or office; kindness done or granted; benevolence shown by word or deed; an act of grace or good will, as distinct from justice or remuneration.
Beg one favor at thy gracious hand.

Favor

Mildness or mitigation of punishment; lenity.
I could not discover the lenity and favor of this sentence.

Favor

The object of regard; person or thing favored.
All these his wondrous works, but chiefly man,His chief delight and favor.

Favor

A gift or present; something bestowed as an evidence of good will; a token of love; a knot of ribbons; something worn as a token of affection; as, a marriage favor is a bunch or knot of white ribbons or white flowers worn at a wedding.
Wear thou this favor for me, and stick it in thy cap.

Favor

Appearance; look; countenance; face.
This boy is fair, of female favor.

Favor

Partiality; bias.

Favor

A letter or epistle; - so called in civility or compliment; as, your favor of yesterday is received.

Favor

Love locks.
But, with your favor, I will treat it here.

Favor

To regard with kindness; to support; to aid, or to have the disposition to aid, or to wish success to; to be propitious to; to treat with consideration or tenderness; to show partiality or unfair bias towards.
O happy youth! and favored of the skies.
He that favoreth Joab, . . . let him go after Joab.
[The painter] has favored her squint admirably.

Favor

To afford advantages for success to; to facilitate; as, a weak place favored the entrance of the enemy.

Favor

To resemble in features; to have the aspect or looks of; as, the child favors his father.
The porter owned that the gentleman favored his master.

Favor

An act of gracious kindness

Favor

An advantage to the benefit of someone or something;
The outcome was in his favor

Favor

An inclination to approve;
That style is in favor this season

Favor

A feeling of favorable regard

Favor

Souvenir consisting of a small gift given to a guest at a party

Favor

Promote over another;
He favors his second daughter

Favor

Consider as the favorite;
The local team was favored

Favor

Treat gently or carefully

Favor

Bestow a privilege upon

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