Definitions for yeast

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yeast yeast

Spelling: [yeest]

IPA: /yist/

Yeast is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 67 anagrams from letters in yeast (aesty).

Definitions for yeast

noun

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 into alcohol and carbon dioxide.
2. any of several yeasts of the genus Saccharomyces, used in brewing alcoholic beverages, as a leaven in baking breads, and in pharmacology as a source of vitamins and proteins. Compare bottom yeast, brewer's yeast, top yeast.
3. spume; foam.
4. ferment; agitation.
5. something that causes ferment or agitation.

verb (used without object)

1. to ferment.
2. to be covered with froth.

Origin of yeast

before 1000; Middle English ye(e)st (noun), Old English gist, gyst; cognate with Dutch gist, German Gischt yeast, foam, Old Norse jastr yeast, Greek zestós boiled, Sanskrit yásati (it) boils

Examples for yeast

If you use fruit, put in half a wine glass more of the yeast.

That mat is actually a culture: in technical terms, a symbiotic colony of bacteria and yeast.

During fermentation after about 15 percent alcohol, yeast starts producing histamines.

If the yeast is stirred in while the liquor is too warm, it will be likely to turn sour.

To make the dough, combine the flour, yeast, salt and sugar in a large bowl.

Let it stand till it becomes only milk-warm, and then stir in the yeast.

Mix the yeast smoothly with the milk, which should be made tepid.

Make the milk tepid, and mix smoothly with the German yeast.

The malted barley, yeast, and water are cooked, fermented, and distilled exactly the same.

Another cure is Kvass, a slightly alcoholic beverage made by soaking dried rye bread with sugar and yeast.