Definizione monolingua

yeast

yeast (third-person singular simple present yeasts, present participle yeasting, simple past and past participle yeasted)

1. (African American Vernacular, slang) To exaggerate^[1]

yeast (countable and uncountable; plural yeasts)

1. An often humid, yellowish froth produced by fermenting malt worts, and used to brew beer, leaven bread, and also used in certain medicines.
2. A type of single-celled fungus.
   • 1903, Alfred Peter Carlslund Jørgensen (R. Grey, translator), Practical Management of Pure Yeast: The Application and Examination of Brewery, Distillery, and Wine, Yeasts, The Brewing trade review, page 17:

     A microscopical examination of the yeast taken from these rapid vigorous fermentations will only be able to give useful conclusions in one respect.

3. A compressed cake or dried granules of this substance used for mixing with flour to make bread dough rise.
4. (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.

Definizione dizionario yeast

	lievito
	fungus
	froth used in medicine, baking and brewing
	cake or dried granules used to make bread dough rise
	Many species of unicellular fungi, most of which belong to the Ascomycetes and reproduce by budding. The genus Saccharomyces is used in brewing and winemaking because in low oxygen concentration it produces zymase, an enzyme system that breaks down sugars to alcohol and carbon dioxide. Saccharomyces is also used in bread-making. Some yeasts are used as a source of protein and of vitamins of the B group. (Source: ALL)

	onda
	frothy foam on sea waves

	schiuma
	frothy foam on sea waves

fermento

fondaccio

lievitare

lieviti

lievito madre

lièvito

schiuma di un’onda

Altri significati:

A compressed cake or dried granules of this substance used for mixing with flour to make bread dough rise.

A type of single-celled fungus.

An often humid, yellowish froth produced by fermenting malt worts, and used to brew beer, leaven bread, and also used in certain medicines.

(African American Vernacular, slang) To exaggerate

(figuratively) A frothy foam.

mold used to make sake