yeast
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
yeast
- An often humid, yellowish froth produced by fermenting malt worts, and used to brew beer, leaven bread, and also used in certain medicines.
- A single-celled fungus of a wide variety of taxonomic families.
- A true yeast or budding yeast in order Saccharomycetales.
- baker's yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae
- A compressed cake or dried granules of this substance used for mixing with flour to make bread dough rise.
- brewer's yeast, certain species of Saccharomyces, principally Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Saccharomyces carlsbergensis.
- baker's yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae
- Candida, a ubiquitous fungus that can cause various kinds of infections in humans.
- The resulting infection, candidiasis.
- A true yeast or budding yeast in order Saccharomycetales.
- (figuratively) A frothy foam.
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick:
- But what most puzzled and confounded you was a long, limber, portentous, black mass of something hovering in the centre of the picture over three blue, dim, perpendicular lines floating in a nameless yeast.
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick:
- French: levure
- German: Hefe, Hefepilz
- Italian: lievito
- Portuguese: fermento, levedura
- Russian: дро́жжи
- Spanish: levadura
- French: levure
- German: Hefe, (Northern Germany) Bärme, (southeastern Germany, Austria) Germ, (regional, especially in Northern Germany outdated, in South Africa (KwaZulu-Natal) rare) Gest, (South Africa (KwaZulu-Natal)) Yeast
- Italian: lievito, fermento
- Portuguese: fermento, levedura
- Russian: дро́жжи
- Spanish: levadura
- French: levure
- German: Hefe, (Northern Germany) Bärme, (southeastern Germany, Austria) Germ, (regional, especially in Northern Germany outdated, in South Africa (KwaZulu-Natal) rare) Gest, (South Africa (KwaZulu-Natal)) Yeast
- Italian: lievito
- Portuguese: levedura
- Russian: дро́жжи
- Spanish: levadura
yeast (yeasts, present participle yeasting; past and past participle yeasted)
- To ferment.
- (of something prepared with a yeasted dough) To rise.
- (African American Vernacular English, slang) To exaggerate
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