yeast
pronunciation
How to pronounce yeast in British English:
UK [ji:st]
How to pronounce yeast in American English:
US [jist]
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- Noun:
- a commercial leavening agent containing yeast cells; used to raise the dough in making bread and for fermenting beer or whiskey
- any of various single-celled fungi that reproduce asexually by budding or division
Word Origin
- yeast
- yeast: [OE] Yeast is etymologically a substance that causes ‘fermentation’. For its ultimate source is the Indo-European base *jes- ‘boil, foam, froth’, which also produced Greek zeín ‘boil’ (source of English eczema) and Welsh iās ‘seething’. Its Germanic descendant produced German gischt ‘yeast, froth’, Dutch gist, gest ‘yeast’, and English yeast.=> eczema
- yeast (n.)
- Old English gist "yeast, froth," from Proto-Germanic *jest- (cognates: Old Norse jastr, Swedish jäst, Middle High German gest, German Gischt "foam, froth," Old High German jesan, German gären "to ferment"), from PIE root *yes- "to boil, foam, froth" (cognates: Sanskrit yasyati "boils, seethes," Greek zein "to boil," Welsh ias "seething, foaming").
Example
- 1. Then cano brought the yeast back to life .
- 2. Genetically engineered yeast help turn the dissolved co2 into solid carbonates .
- 3. True bread is flour and water with a pinch of salt and yeast .
- 4. Combine flour , yeast and salt in a food processor .
- 5. From blueberries instead of yeast .