Leaven vs Mixture - What's the difference?
leaven | mixture |
Any agent used to make dough rise or to have a similar effect on baked goods.
(figurative) Anything that makes a general assimilating (especially a corrupting) change in the mass.
* Bible, Luke xii. 1
To add a leavening agent.
To cause to rise by fermentation.
(figuratively) To temper an action or decision.
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To imbue; to infect; to vitiate.
* Milton
The act of mixing.
Something produced by mixing.
Something that consists of diverse elements
A medicinal compound
As nouns the difference between leaven and mixture
is that leaven is any agent used to make dough rise or to have a similar effect on baked goods while mixture is the act of mixing.As a verb leaven
is to add a leavening agent.leaven
English
Noun
(en noun)- Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.
Derived terms
* leavenless * natural leavenVerb
(en verb)- With fresh material, taxonomic conclusions are leavened by recognition that the material examined reflects the site it occupied; a herbarium packet gives one only a small fraction of the data desirable for sound conclusions. Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get
- With these and the like deceivable doctrines, he leavens also his prayer.
Derived terms
* leavened * leavening * unleavenedSee also
* yeastmixture
English
(wikipedia mixture)Noun
(en noun)- The mixture of sulphuric acid and water produces heat.
- An alloy is a mixture of two metals.
- The day was a mixture of sunshine and showers.
- A teaspoonful of the mixture to be taken three times daily after meals