yeast
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- Rhymes: -iːst
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yeast (countable and uncountable; plural yeasts)
- A type of single-celled fungus.
- 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:
- A microscopical examination of the yeast taken from these rapid vigorous fermentations will only be able to give useful conclusions in one respect.
- 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:
- An often humid, yellowish froth, made of these fungi, used in medicine, in baking and in brewing beer.
- A compressed cake or dried granules of this substance used for mixing with flour to make bread dough rise.
- (figuratively) A frothy foam on sea waves.
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fungus
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froth used in medicine, baking and brewing
cake or dried granules used to make bread dough rise
frothy foam on sea waves
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to yeast (third-person singular simple present yeasts, present participle -, simple past and past participle yeasted)
- (African American Vernacular, slang) To exaggerate[1]
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