yeast

Definitions

1. A surname.
2. recent
3. An often humid, yellowish froth produced by fermenting malt worts, and used to brew beer, leaven bread, and also used in certain medicines.
   countable, uncountable
4. A single-celled fungus of a wide variety of taxonomic families.
   countable, uncountable
5. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
6. A true yeast or budding yeast in order Saccharomycetales.
   countable, uncountable
7. baker's yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae
   countable, uncountable
8. third-person singular imperative
9. A compressed cake or dried granules of this substance used for mixing with flour to make bread dough rise.
   countable, uncountable
10. brewer's yeast, certain species of Saccharomyces, principally Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Saccharomyces carlsbergensis.
    countable, uncountable
11. Candida, a ubiquitous fungus that can cause various kinds of infections in humans.
    countable, uncountable
12. The resulting infection, candidiasis.
    countable, uncountable
13. A frothy foam.
    countable, figuratively, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“A microscopical examination of the yeast taken from these rapid vigorous fermentations will only be able to give⟳ useful conclusions in one respect⟳.”

“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.”

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