yeast

noun

1. 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. 2

   A single-celled fungus of any of a wide variety of taxonomic families.

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

3. 3

   A single-celled fungus of any of a wide variety of taxonomic families. A true yeast or budding yeast in order Saccharomycetales. Baker's yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae)

4. 4

   A single-celled fungus of any of a wide variety of taxonomic families. A true yeast or budding yeast in order Saccharomycetales. Baker's yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) A compressed cake or dried granules of this substance used for mixing with flour to make bread dough rise.

5. 5

   A single-celled fungus of any of a wide variety of taxonomic families. A true yeast or budding yeast in order Saccharomycetales. brewer's yeast, certain species of Saccharomyces, principally Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Saccharomyces carlsbergensis.

6. 6

   A single-celled fungus of any of a wide variety of taxonomic families. Candida, a ubiquitous fungus that can cause various kinds of infections in humans.

7. 7

   A single-celled fungus of any of a wide variety of taxonomic families. Candida, a ubiquitous fungus that can cause various kinds of infections in humans. The resulting infection, candidiasis.

8. 8

   figurativeA frothy foam.

   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.

verb

1. 1

   To ferment.

2. 2

   To rise.

3. 3

   slangTo exaggerate.

Forms

plural

yeasts

past tense

yeasted

past participle

yeasted

present participle

yeasting

third person singular

yeasts