Starter vs Leaven - What's the difference?
starter | leaven |
Someone who starts something.
# The person who starts a race by firing a gun or waving a flag
# (baseball) A starting pitcher.
Something that starts something.
# An electric motor that starts an internal combustion engine
# A device that initiates the flow of high voltage electricity in a fluorescent lamp
# A yeast culture used to start a fermentation process
The first course of a meal, consisting of a small, usually savoury, dish.
(team sports) A player in the lineup of players that a team fields at the beginning of a game.
A dog that rouses game.
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
As nouns the difference between starter and leaven
is that starter is someone who starts something while leaven is any agent used to make dough rise or to have a similar effect on baked goods.As a verb leaven is
to add a leavening agent.starter
English
Noun
(en noun)- a starter on a journey
- It's small, but it's a good starter house.
Synonyms
* (first course of a meal) hors d’oeuvreAnagrams
* * ----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.