Flour vs. Bran
Difference Between Flour and Bran
Flournoun
Powder obtained by grinding or milling cereal grains, especially wheat, or other foodstuffs such as soybeans and potatoes, and used to bake bread, cakes, and pastry.
Brannoun
The broken coat of the seed of wheat, rye, or other cereal grain, separated from the flour or meal by sifting or bolting; the coarse, chaffy part of ground grain.
Flournoun
The food made by grinding and bolting cleaned wheat (not durum or red durum) until it meets specified levels of fineness, dryness, and freedom from bran and germ, also containing any of certain enzymes, ascorbic acid, and certain bleaching agents.
Brannoun
(ornithology) The European carrion crow.
Flournoun
Powder of other material.
wood flour, produced by sanding woodmustard flourBrannoun
broken husks of the seeds of cereal grains that are separated from the flour by sifting
Flournoun
obsolete form of flower
that nobody is wished to see my dead body. & that no murnurs walk behind me at my funeral. & that no flours be planted on my grave. — Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge.Brannoun
food prepared from the husks of cereal grains
Flourverb
(transitive) To apply flour to something; to cover with flour.
Flourverb
(transitive) To reduce to flour.
Flourverb
(intransitive) To break up into fine globules of mercury in the amalgamation process.
Flournoun
fine powdery foodstuff obtained by grinding and sifting the meal of a cereal grain
Flourverb
cover with flour;
flour fish or meat before frying itFlourverb
convert grain into flour
