Flour vs. Farina — What's the Difference?

Flour is a powder made by grinding raw grains, roots, beans, nuts, or seeds. Flours are used to make many different foods.

Fine meal prepared from cereal grain and various other plant products, often used as a cooked cereal or in pudding.

A powder obtained by grinding grain, typically wheat, and used to make bread, cakes, and pastry.

A fine flour or meal made from cereal grains or from the starch or fecula of vegetables, extracted by various processes, and used in cookery.

Sprinkle (something, especially a work surface or cooking utensil) with a thin layer of flour.

A particular grade of wheat meal, commonly used as hot breakfast cereal in North America.

Grind (grain) into flour.

Hot breakfast cereal made from prepared farina in milk, more commonly known by the trademark name Cream of Wheat.

A fine, powdery foodstuff obtained by grinding and sifting the meal of a grain, especially wheat, used chiefly in baking.

A fine flour or meal made from cereal grains or from the starch or fecula of vegetables, extracted by various processes, and used in cookery.

Any of various similar finely ground or powdered foodstuffs, as of cassava, chickpeas, or bananas.

Pollen.

A soft, fine powder.

Fine meal made from cereal grain especially wheat; often used as a cooked cereal or in puddings

To cover or coat with flour.

To make into flour.

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.

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.

Powder of other material.

Obsolete form of flower

(transitive) To apply flour to something; to cover with flour.

(transitive) To reduce to flour.

(intransitive) To break up into fine globules of mercury in the amalgamation process.

The finely ground meal of wheat, or of any other grain; especially, the finer part of meal separated by bolting; hence, the fine and soft powder of any substance; as, flour of emery; flour of mustard.

To grind and bolt; to convert into flour; as, to flour wheat.

To sprinkle with flour.

Fine powdery foodstuff obtained by grinding and sifting the meal of a cereal grain

Cover with flour;

Convert grain into flour