yeast

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Royaume-Uni//jiːst//
États-Unis//jist//
//iːst//

An often humid, yellowish froth produced by fermenting malt worts, and used to brew beer, leaven bread, and also used in certain medicines.

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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 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
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)
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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figuréA 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.

Étymologie

From Middle English yest, yeest, gest, gist, from Old English ġist, ġyst, from Proto-West Germanic *jestu, from Proto-Germanic *jestuz. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Jääst (“yeast”), West Frisian gêst, gist (“yeast”), Dutch gist (“yeast”), German Low German Gest (“yeast”), German Gischt (“sea foam”), Swedish jäst (“yeast”), Norwegian jest (“yeast”), Icelandic jöstur (“yeast”).

verbe

1
To ferment.
2
To rise.
3
argotTo exaggerate.

Formes

pluriel: yeasts
passé: yeasted
participe passé: yeasted
participe présent: yeasting
3ᵉ personne du singulier: yeasts

yearn · To have a strong desire for something or to do something; to…yearning · A wistful or melancholy longing.years · A very long time.

yeast · An often humid, yellowish froth produced by fermenting malt worts, and used to brew beer, leaven bread, and also used in certain medicines.

Yeast · A surname.yee · You (the people being addressed); alternative spelling of ye.Yee · A surname from Chinese.

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