Assertion: yeast | /r/CapableOf | diffuse lightness
Facets:
value: thus,
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: Yeast, or leaven — is a small piece of fermented dough, which, placed in a larger mass of meal or paste, produces fermentation, and thus, by the escape of the generated gas, diffuses a lightness, or, in technical phrase, raises the dough with which it was intermixed.