favour

n 1: a feeling of favorable regard [syn: {favor}]

2: an inclination to approve; "that style is in favor this

season" [syn: {favor}]

3: an advantage to the benefit of someone or something; "the

outcome was in his favor" [syn: {favor}]

4: an act of gracious kindness [syn: {favor}]

v 1: bestow a privilege upon [syn: {privilege}, {favor}]

2: promote over another [syn: {prefer}, {favor}]

3: confer honor on [syn: {honor}, {honour}, {favor}, {grace}]

4: consider as the favorite; "The local team was favored" [syn:

{favor}]

flavour

(US: flavor) 1. Variety, type, kind. "DDT commands

come in two flavors." "These lights come in two flavors, big

red ones and small green ones." See {vanilla}.

2. The attribute that causes something to be {flavourful}.

Usually used in the phrase "yields additional flavour". "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 colours (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design has been superseded (notably by the {Common LISP}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.

(1994-11-01)