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 type of single-celled fungus.
 * 3) A compressed cake or dried granules of this substance used for mixing with flour to make bread dough rise.
 * 4)  A frothy foam.
 * 5) * 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.
 * 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

 * active dry yeast
 * brewer's yeast
 * red yeast rice


 * yeast infection
 * yeasty

Verb

 * 1)  To exaggerate

Thesaurus
agent, alterant, alterative, alterer, catalyst, catalytic agent, ferment, foam, froth, innovationist, innovator, introducer, lather, leaven, modificator, modifier, precursor, spume, suds, transformer, transmogrifier

Etymology
From giest:, from.

Pronunciation

 * ,, (also , )



Noun

 * Afrikaans:
 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: خميرة
 * Armenian: խմորիչ
 * Bengali: খামির
 * Catalan: llevat
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Estonian: ,
 * Faroese: ger
 * Finnish:, hiivasieni
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek: ,
 * Gujarati: યીસ્ટના
 * Haitian Creole:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Indonesian: ragi


 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Kannada: ಹುದುಗು
 * Korean: 효모
 * Latvian: raugs
 * Lithuanian: mielės
 * Macedonian: квасец
 * Maltese: ħmira
 * Norwegian: gjær
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Serbian: kvas, kvasac
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: lebadura
 * Turkish:
 * Urdu:
 * Vietnamese:


 * Arabic: خميرة
 * Armenian: թթխմոր (t't'xmor)
 * Catalan: llevat
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: droždí, kvasnice
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: fermentilo
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:


 * Irish: gabháil giosta
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, イースト
 * Korean: 효모
 * Latvian:
 * Macedonian: квасец
 * Norwegian: gjær
 * Polish:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Taos: cą̀pienéna
 * Turkish:
 * Urdu:


 * Arabic: خميرة
 * Armenian: թթխմոր (t't'xmor)
 * Catalan: llevat
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: droždí, kvasnice
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Faroese: ger
 * Finnish: hiiva, kuivahiiva
 * French:
 * German:
 * Icelandic:


 * Irish: gabháil giosta
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: イースト菌 (īsuto-kin)
 * Macedonian: квасец
 * Norwegian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: квасац, герма
 * Roman: kvasac, germa
 * Slovak: kvasnice, droždie
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: jäst
 * Turkish:


 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Greek:


 * Irish: coipeadh cúr
 * Italian: schiuma di un'onda
 * Maltese: ragħwa
 * Swedish: skum


 * : ger
 * : levatura (1)
 * : fermento


 * : ferment, levură, țaică, drojdie
 * : kvas, droži
 * : maya

Anagrams

 * as yet
 * teasy
 * yeats