Cotton vs Yeast - What's the difference?
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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.
Made of cotton.
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English terms with multiple etymologies
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.
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# 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 :
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
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, SpanishNoun
(en-noun)Derived terms
* cotton candy * cottongrass * cotton pad * cotton picker * cottonseed * cotton stripper * cotton wool * cotton gin * cotton card * cotton blendAdjective
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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)Usage notes
Generally used with prepositions on, to; see cotton on, cotton to.Derived terms
* cotton on * cotton toReferences
yeast
English
(wikipedia yeast)Noun
- 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 .