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Cotton vs Yeast - What's the difference?

cotton | yeast |

As a proper noun cotton

is the name of several settlements around the world or cotton can be .

As a noun yeast is

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

As a verb yeast is

to ferment.

cotton

English

(cotton)

Etymology 1

(etyl) cotoun, from (etyl) cotun, (etyl) coton, from (Genoese) (etyl) cotone, from (Egyptian) (etyl) , possibly originally from (etyl). Cognate to Dutch katoen, German Kattun, Italian cotone, Spanish

Noun

(en-noun)
  • A plant that encases its seed in a thin fiber that is harvested and used as a fabric or cloth.
  • Gossypium , a genus of plant used as a source of cotton fiber.
  • (textiles) The textile made from the fiber harvested from the cotton plant.
  • (countable) An item of clothing made from cotton.
  • Derived terms
    * cotton candy * cottongrass * cotton pad * cotton picker * cottonseed * cotton stripper * cotton wool * cotton gin * cotton card * cotton blend

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Made of cotton.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
  • , title=(The China Governess) , chapter=2 citation , passage=Now that she had rested and had fed from the luncheon tray Mrs. Broome had just removed, she had reverted to her normal gaiety.  She looked cool in a grey tailored cotton dress with a terracotta scarf and shoes and her hair a black silk helmet.}}

    Etymology 2

    1560s, either from (etyl) cydun, , literally “to be at one with”, or by metaphor with the textile, as cotton blended well with other textiles, notably wool in hat-making. Take Our Word For It: Issue 178, page 2]Folk-etymology: a dictionary of verbal corruptions or words perverted in form or meaning, by false derivation or mistaken analogy, Abram Smythe Palmer, G. Bell and Sons, 1882, [http://books.google.com/books?id=YX5BAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA76&dq=cotton p. 76

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To get on with someone or something; to have a good relationship with someone.
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  • Usage notes
    Generally used with prepositions on, to; see cotton on, cotton to.
    Derived terms
    * cotton on * cotton to

    yeast

    English

    (wikipedia yeast)

    Noun

  • An often humid, yellowish froth produced by fermenting malt worts, and used to brew beer, leaven bread, and also used in certain medicines.
  • A single-celled fungus of a wide variety of taxonomic families.
  • *
  • # A true yeast or budding yeast in order Saccharomycetales.
  • ## , Saccharomyces cerevisiae
  • ### A compressed cake or dried granules of this substance used for mixing with flour to make bread dough rise.
  • ## brewer's yeast, certain species of Saccharomyces'', principally ''Saccharomyces cerevisiae and .
  • # Candida , a ubiquitous fungus that can cause various kinds of infections in humans.
  • ## The resulting infection, candidiasis.
  • (figuratively) A frothy foam.
  • * 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 .

    Derived terms

    * active dry yeast * * brewer's yeast * red yeast rice * true yeast * yeast extract * yeast infection * yeasty

    See also

    * leaven * nutritional yeast

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To ferment.
  • (of something prepared with a yeasted dough) To rise.
  • (African American Vernacular English, slang) To exaggeratehttp://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/cgi-bin/res.pl?keyword=Yeasting&offset=0
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