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Fume vs Yeast - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between fume and yeast

is that fume is a gas or vapour/vapor that smells strongly or is dangerous to inhale. Fumes are solid particles formed by condensation from the gaseous state, e.g. metal oxides from volatilized metals. They can flocculate and coalesce. Their particle size is between 0.1 and 1 micron. (A micron is one millionth of a metre while 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 verbs the difference between fume and yeast

is that fume is to emit fumes while yeast is to ferment.

fume

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A gas or vapour/vapor that smells strongly or is dangerous to inhale. Fumes are solid particles formed by condensation from the gaseous state, e.g. metal oxides from volatilized metals. They can flocculate and coalesce. Their particle size is between 0.1 and 1 micron. (A micron is one millionth of a metre)
  • Don't stand around in there breathing the fumes while the adhesive cures.
  • * T. Warton
  • the fumes of new shorn hay
  • A material that has been vaporized from the solid state to the gas state and re-coalesced to the solid state.
  • Rage or excitement which deprives the mind of self-control.
  • the fumes of passion
    (South)
  • Anything unsubstantial or airy; idle conceit; vain imagination.
  • * Francis Bacon
  • a show of fumes and fancies
  • The incense of praise; inordinate flattery.
  • * Burton
  • to smother him with fumes and eulogies

    Verb

    (fum)
  • To emit fumes.
  • * Milton
  • where the golden altar fumed
  • * Roscommon
  • Silenus lay, / Whose constant cups lay fuming to his brain.
  • To expose something (especially wood) to ammonia fumes in order to produce dark tints.
  • To feel or express great anger.
  • He's still fuming about the argument they had yesterday.
  • * Dryden
  • He frets, he fumes , he stares, he stamps the ground.
  • * Sir Walter Scott
  • Her mother did fret, and her father did fume .
  • To be as in a mist; to be dulled and stupefied.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Keep his brain fuming .
  • To pass off in fumes or vapours.
  • * Cheyne
  • Their parts are kept from fuming away by their fixity.

    Usage notes

    * In the sense of strong-smelling or dangerous vapor, the noun is typically plural, as in the example. ----

    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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