Wort vs Yeast - What's the difference?
wort | yeast |
A plant; herb; vegetable.
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* 1845 , Rev. Jeremy Taylor, Works :
Any of various plants or herbs.
Liquid extract from the ground malt and grain soaked in hot water, the mash, as one of the steps in making beer
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 nouns the difference between wort and yeast
is that wort is word as an isolated unit 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 a verb yeast is
to ferment.wort
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), (m), (m), from (etyl) . More at (l).Noun
(en noun)- he drinks water, and lives on wort leaves, pulse, like a hogg, or scraps like a dog […].
- It is an excellent pleasure to be able to take pleasure in worts and water, in bread and onions, for then a man can never want pleasure when it is so ready for him, that nature hath spread it over all its provisions.
Derived terms
* (vern, adder's wort) * adderwort * (American lungwort) * (asterwort) * awlwort * banewort * barrenwort * (bearwort) * bellwort * birthwort * bishop's wort * bitterwort * bladderwort * blawort * bloodwort * blue navelwort * blue throatwort * blushwort * bogwort * boragewort * bridewort * brimstonewort * brotherwort * brownwort * bruisewort * bugwort * bullock's lungwort * bullwort * burstwort * butterwort * cancerwort * catwort * clown's ringwort * colewort * common ragwort * coralwort * cow's lungwort * crosswort * damewort * danewort * dragonwort * dropwort * (dungwort) * ebony spleenwort * elderwort * (European pillwort) * (fanwort) * felonwort * (feltwort) * felwort * feverwort * figwort * fleawort * (flukewort) * (French lungwort) * frostwort * fumewort * (galewort) * (garlicwort) * (gentianwort) * (German madwort) * (gipsywort) * glasswort * (golden lungwort) * (golden ragwort) * goutwort * (greater spearwort) * gutwort * gypsywort * hammerwort * hartwort * heathwort * hemlock dropwort * hillwort * hogwort * holewort * honewort * honeywort * hoodwort * hornwort * ironwort * kelpwort * kidneywort * knotwort * laserwort * lazarwort * leadwort * lesser spearwort * lichwort * lilywort * liverwort * lousewort * lungwort * lustwort * madderwort * madwort * maidenhair spleenwort * mallowwort * marsh pennywort * marshwort * masterwort * maudlinwort * maywort * meadowwort * milkwort * miterwort * mitrewort * modiwort * moneywort * moonwort * moorwort * motherwort * moudiewort * moudiwort * mountain spiderwort * (mowdiewort) * mudwort * mugwort * (mulewort) * (nailwort) * navelwort * (nettlewort) * nipplewort * (peachwort) * pearlwort * pennywort * pepperwort * (peterwort) * pilewort * pillwort * pipewort * quillwort * quinsywort * rattlewort * ribwort * rosewort * rupturewort * saltwort * sandwort * sawwort * scorpionwort * scurvywort * sea lungwort * sea milkwort * sea ragwort * sea sandwort * sea starwort * setterwort * sicklewort * sleepwort * slipperwort * sneezewort * soapwort * sparrowwort * spearwort * spiderwort * spleenwort * spoonwort * springwort * spurwort * * * * * stabwort * staggerwort * staithwort * standerwort * starwort * staverwort * stinkwort * stitchwort * stonewort * strapwort * sulphurwort * swallowwort * sweetwort * talewort * tetterwort * thoroughwort * throatwort * thrumwort * toothwort * (towerwort) * (tree lungwort) * (trophywort) * (wall pennywort) * wallwort * wartwort * water dropwort * water figwort * water pennywort * (water starwort) * waterwort * (white navelwort) * (white swallowwort) * (willowwort) * woundwort * (yellow starwort) * yellowwortSee also
* (projectlink)Etymology 2
From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) (m), .Noun
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* (wikipedia)Anagrams
* ----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 .