Flour vs. Dough — 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.

Dough is a thick, malleable, sometimes elastic paste made out of any grains, leguminous or chestnut crops. Dough is typically made by mixing flour with a small amount of water and/or other liquid, and sometimes includes yeast or other leavening agents as well as other ingredients such as various fats or flavorings.

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

A thick, malleable mixture of flour and liquid, used for baking into bread or pastry

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

Money

Grind (grain) into flour.

A soft, thick mixture of dry ingredients, such as flour or meal, and liquid, such as water, that is kneaded, shaped, and baked, especially as bread or pastry.

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

A pasty mass similar to this mixture.

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

(Slang) Money.

A soft, fine powder.

A thick, malleable substance made by mixing flour with other ingredients such as water, eggs, and/or butter, that is made into a particular form and then baked.

To cover or coat with flour.

Money.

To make into flour.

(transitive) To make into dough.

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.

Paste of bread; a soft mass of moistened flour or meal, kneaded or unkneaded, but not yet baked; as, to knead dough.

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.

Anything of the consistency of such paste.

Powder of other material.

A flour mixture stiff enough to knead or roll

Obsolete form of flower

Informal terms for money

(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