Yeast vs Yeastlike - What's the difference?
yeast | yeastlike |
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
Resembling or having characteristics of yeast
*{{quote-news, 1988, January 22, Robert McClory, The Yeast of Our Problems, Chicago Reader
, passage=Under certain conditions, it seems, candida can change from its yeastlike , noninvasive state into a parasitic fungus that spreads like wildfire through the gut. }}
As a noun 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.As an adjective yeastlike is
resembling or having characteristics of yeast.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 .
Derived terms
* active dry yeast * * brewer's yeast * red yeast rice * true yeast * yeast extract * yeast infection * yeastySee also
* leaven * nutritional yeastVerb
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Anagrams
* * *yeastlike
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Adjective
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