yeast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: yēst
ipa: /jiːst/
enpr: yēst
ipa: /jist/
ipa: /iːst/
rhymes: -iːst
Forms: form: yeasts
Etymology: From Middle English yest, yeest, gest, gist, from Old English ġist, ġyst, from Proto-West Germanic *jestu, from Proto-Germanic *jestuz. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Jääst (“yeast”), West Frisian gêst, gist (“yeast”), Dutch gist (“yeast”), German Low German Gest (“yeast”), German Gischt (“sea foam”), Swedish jäst (“yeast”), Norwegian jest (“yeast”), Icelandic jöstur (“yeast”).
Senses: glosses: An often humid, yellowish froth produced by fermenting malt worts, and used to brew beer, leaven bread, and also used in certain medicines.
examples: text: A microscopical examination of the yeast taken from these rapid vigorous fermentations will only be able to give useful conclusions in one respect.
ref: 1903, Alfred Peter Carlslund Jørgensen (R. Grey, translator), Practical Management of Pure Yeast: The Application and Examination of Brewery, Distillery, and Wine, Yeasts, The Brewing trade review, page 17:
glosses: A single-celled fungus of a wide variety of taxonomic families.
glosses: 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
glosses: 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.
glosses: A single-celled fungus of a wide variety of taxonomic families.
A true yeast or budding yeast in order Saccharomycetales.
brewer's yeast, certain species of Saccharomyces, principally Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Saccharomyces carlsbergensis.
glosses: A single-celled fungus of a wide variety of taxonomic families.
Candida, a ubiquitous fungus that can cause various kinds of infections in humans.
glosses: A single-celled fungus of a wide variety of taxonomic families.
Candida, a ubiquitous fungus that can cause various kinds of infections in humans.
The resulting infection, candidiasis.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
glosses: A frothy foam.
Derived terms: sense: terms derived from yeast (noun)
word: active dry yeast
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word: anti-yeast
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word: baker's yeast
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word: brewer's yeast
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word: compressed yeast
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word: fresh yeast
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word: pseudoyeast
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word: red yeast rice
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word: selenium yeast
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word: sphere-yeast
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word: true yeast
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word: turbo yeast
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word: yeast-bitten
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word: yeast bread
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word: yeast cake
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word: yeast extract
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word: yeast infection
sense: terms derived from yeast (noun)
word: yeasty
Related terms: leaven
nutritional yeast