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Yeast vs Feast - What's the difference?

yeast | feast |

As nouns the difference between yeast and feast

is that 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 while feast is a very large meal, often of a ceremonial nature.

As verbs the difference between yeast and feast

is that yeast is to ferment while feast is to partake in a , or large meal.

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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    feast

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) feest, feste, fest, from (etyl) feste, from (etyl) festa, plural of .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A very large meal, often of a ceremonial nature.
    • We had a feast to celebrate the harvest.
  • Something delightful
    • It was a feast for the eyes.
  • A festival; a holiday; a solemn, or more commonly, a joyous, anniversary.
  • * Bible, Exodus xiii. 6
    • The seventh day shall be a feast to the Lord.
  • * Bible, Luke ii. 41
    • Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year at the feast of the passover.
    Synonyms
    * banquet
    Derived terms
    * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l)

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) feesten, festen, from (etyl) fester, from , from the noun. See above.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To partake in a , or large meal.
    • I feasted on turkey and dumplings.
  • To dwell upon (something) with delight.
  • * Shakespeare
    • With my love's picture then my eye doth feast .
  • To hold a in honor of (someone).
    • We feasted them after the victory.
  • To serve as a feast for; to feed sumptuously.
  • * Bishop Joseph Hall
    • Or once a week, perhaps, for novelty / Reez'd bacon-soords shall feast his family.
    Derived terms
    * feaster * feast one’s eyes

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