Yeast
11yeast — [ji:st] n [U] [: Old English; Origin: gist] a type of ↑fungus used for producing alcohol in beer and wine, and for making bread rise >yeasty adj ▪ a yeasty taste …
12yeast — *foam, froth, spume, scum, lather, suds …
13yeast — ► NOUN 1) a microscopic single celled fungus capable of converting sugar into alcohol and carbon dioxide. 2) a greyish yellow preparation of this obtained chiefly from fermented beer, used as a fermenting agent, to raise bread dough, and as a… …
14yeast — yeastless, adj. yeastlike, adj. /yeest/, n. 1. any of various small, single celled fungi of the phylum Ascomycota that reproduce by fission or budding, the daughter cells often remaining attached, and that are capable of fermenting carbohydrates… …
15Yeast — A group of single celled fungi that reproduce by budding. Most yeast are harmless (some are used in baking and brewing). Yeast is commonly present on normal human skin and in areas of moisture, such as the mouth and vagina, usually without… …
16yeast — /jist / (say yeest) noun 1. a yellowish, somewhat viscid, semifluid substance consisting of the aggregated cells of certain minute fungi, which appears in saccharine liquids (fruit juices, malt worts, etc.), rising to the top as a froth (top… …
17yeast — [OE] Yeast is etymologically a substance that causes ‘fermentation’. For its ultimate 553 Yule source is the Indo European base *jes ‘boil, foam, froth’, which also produced Greek zeín ‘boil’ (source of English eczema) and Welsh iās ‘seething’.… …
18yeast — [OE] Yeast is etymologically a substance that causes ‘fermentation’. For its ultimate source is the Indo European base *jes ‘boil, foam, froth’, which also produced Greek zeín ‘boil’ (source of English eczema) and Welsh iās ‘seething’. Its… …
19yeast — I. noun Etymology: Middle English yest, from Old English gist; akin to Old High German jesen, gesen to ferment, Greek zein to boil Date: before 12th century 1. a. a yellowish surface froth or sediment that occurs especially in saccharine liquids… …
20yeast — n. brewer s yeast * * * [jiːst] brewer s yeast …
