Yeast

Pronunciation

• enPR: yÄ“st, IPA: /jiːst/ (also IPA: /iːst/)
• Rhymes: -iːst

Origin

From Middle English yeest, yest, gest, gist, from Old English ġist, ġyst, from Proto-Germanic *jestuz. Compare Dutch gist, German Gischt, Swedish jäst.

Full definition of yeast

Noun

1. An often humid, yellowish froth produced by fermenting malt worts, and used to brew beer, leaven bread, and also used in certain medicines.
2. A single-celled fungus of a wide variety of taxonomic families.
1. A true yeast or budding yeast in order Saccharomycetales.
1. baker's yeast,
1. A compressed cake or dried granules of this substance used for mixing with flour to make bread dough rise.
2. brewer's yeast, certain species of Saccharomyces, principally and .
3. Candida, a ubiquitous fungus that can cause various kinds of infections in humans.
1. The resulting infection, candidiasis.
2. (figuratively) A frothy foam.
• 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick: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.

Derived terms

Verb

1. To ferment.
2. (of something prepared with a yeasted dough) To rise.
3. (African American Vernacular English, slang) To exaggeratehttp://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/cgi-bin/res.pl?keyword=Yeasting&offset=0

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