From WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003) [wn]:
flavor
n 1: 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" [syn: spirit,
tone, feel, feeling, flavour, look, smell]
2: the taste experience when a savoury condiment is taken into
the mouth [syn: relish, flavour, sapidity, savor,
savour, smack, tang]
3: (physics) the kinds of quarks and antiquarks [syn:
flavour]
v : lend flavor to; "Season the chicken breast after roasting
it" [syn: season, flavour]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Flavor \Fla"vor\, n. [OF. fleur, flaur (two syllables), odor,
cf. F. fleurer to emit an odor, It. flatore a bad odor, prob.
fr. L. flare to bow, whence the sense of exhalation. Cf.
Blow.] [Written also flavour.]
1. That quality of anything which affects the smell; odor;
fragrances; as, the flavor of a rose.
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2. That quality of anything which affects the taste; that
quality which gratifies the palate; relish; zest; savor;
as, the flavor of food or drink.
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3. 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.
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4. That quality which gives character to any of the
productions of literature or the fine arts.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Flavor \Fla"vor\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Flavored; p. pr. & vb.
n. Flavoring.]
To give flavor to; to add something (as salt or a spice) to,
to give character or zest.
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From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (19 Sep 2003) [foldoc]:
flavor
<spelling> US spelling of "flavour".
[Jargon File]
(1997-03-18)
From Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003) [jargon]:
flavor
n.
1. [common] Variety, type, kind. "DDT commands come in two flavors."
"These lights come in two flavors, big red ones and small green
ones." "Linux is a flavor of Unix" See vanilla.
2. The attribute that causes something to be flavorful. Usually
used in the phrase "yields additional flavor". "This convention
yields additional flavor by allowing one to print text either
right-side-up or upside-down." See vanilla. This usage was
certainly reinforced by the terminology of quantum chromodynamics, in
which quarks (the constituents of, e.g., protons) come in six flavors
(up, down, strange, charm, top, bottom) and three colors (red, blue,
green) -- however, hackish use of flavor at MIT predated QCD.
3. The term for class (in the object-oriented sense) in the LISP
Machine Flavors system. Though the Flavors design has been superseded
(notably by the Common LISP CLOS facility), the term flavor is still
used as a general synonym for class by some LISP hackers.