Flavor vs. Savor — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Flavor and Savor
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Flavor
Flavor, or flavour, is the perceptual impression of food or other substances, and is determined primarily by the chemical senses of the gustatory and olfactory system. The "trigeminal senses", which detect chemical irritants in the mouth and throat, as well as temperature and texture, are also important to the overall gestalt of taste perception.
Savor
A specific taste or smell
The savor of fresh mint.
Flavor
Distinctive taste; savor
A flavor of smoke in bacon.
Savor
The quality of something that is perceived as taste or smell
"There is little savor in dead men's meat" (Stephen Vincent Benét).
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).
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Savor
A distinctive quality or characteristic
Enjoyed the savors of local life on their trip.
Flavor
A flavoring
Contains no artificial flavors.
Savor
To have a particular taste or smell
A dish that savors of curry.
Flavor
Any of six types of quark (down, up, strange, charm, bottom, top), distinguished by generation, electric charge, and mass.
Savor
To exhibit a specified quality or characteristic; smack
Postures that savored of vanity.
Flavor
Any of six types of lepton (electron, electron neutrino, muon, muon neutrino, tauon, tau neutrino), distinguished by generation, electric charge, and mass.
Savor
To taste or smell, especially with pleasure
Savored each morsel of the feast.
Flavor
(Archaic) Aroma; fragrance.
Savor
To appreciate fully; enjoy or relish
I want to savor this moment of accomplishment.
Flavor
To give flavor to.
Savor
That property of a thing which affects the organs of taste or smell; taste and odor; flavor; relish; scent; as, the savor of an orange or a rose; an ill savor.
I smell sweet savors and I feel soft things.
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.
Savor
Hence, specific flavor or quality; characteristic property; distinctive temper, tinge, taint, and the like.
Why is not my life a continual joy, and the savor of heaven perpetually upon my spirit?
Flavor
A substance used to produce a taste. Flavoring.
Flavor was added to the pudding.
Savor
Sense of smell; power to scent, or trace by scent.
Flavor
A variety (of taste) attributed to an object.
What flavor of bubble gum do you enjoy?
Savor
Pleasure; delight; attractiveness.
She shall no savor have therein but lite.
Flavor
The characteristic quality of something.
The flavor of an experience
Savor
To have a particular smell or taste; - with of.
Flavor
(informal) A kind or type.
Debian is one flavor of the Linux operating system.
Savor
To partake of the quality or nature; to indicate the presence or influence; to smack; - with of.
This savors not much of distraction.
I have rejected everything that savors of party.
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).
Savor
To use the sense of taste.
By sight, hearing, smelling, tasting or savoring, and feeling.
Flavor
(archaic) The quality produced by the sensation of smell; odour; fragrance.
The flavor of a rose
Savor
To perceive by the smell or the taste; hence, to perceive; to note.
Flavor
To add flavoring to something.
Savor
To have the flavor or quality of; to indicate the presence of.
That cuts us off from hope, and savors onlyRancor and pride, impatience and despite.
Flavor
That quality of anything which affects the smell; odor; fragrances; as, the flavor of a rose.
Savor
To taste or smell with pleasure; to delight in; to relish; to like; to favor.
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.
Savor
The taste experience when a savoury condiment is taken into the mouth
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.
Savor
Derive or receive pleasure from; get enjoyment from; take pleasure in;
She relished her fame and basked in her glory
Flavor
That quality which gives character to any of the productions of literature or the fine arts.
Savor
Have flavor; taste of something
Flavor
To give flavor to; to add something (as salt or a spice) to, to give character or zest.
Savor
Taste appreciatively;
Savor the soup
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
Savor
Give taste to
Flavor
The taste experience when a savoury condiment is taken into the mouth
Flavor
(physics) the kinds of quarks and antiquarks
Flavor
Lend flavor to;
Season the chicken breast after roasting it
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