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yeast

noun
/jiːst/UK/jist/US/iːst/

Etymology

From Middle English yest, yeest, gest, gist, from Old English ġist, ġyst, from Proto-West Germanic *jestu, from Proto-Germanic *jestuz. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Jääst (“yeast”), West Frisian gêst, gist (“yeast”), Dutch gist (“yeast”), German Low German Gest (“yeast”), German Gischt (“sea foam”), Swedish jäst (“yeast”), Norwegian jest (“yeast”), Icelandic jöstur (“yeast”).

  1. inherited from *jestuz✻
  2. inherited from *jestu✻
  3. inherited from ġist
  4. inherited from yest

Definitions

  1. An often humid, yellowish froth produced by fermenting malt worts, and used to brew beer,…

    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 single-celled fungus of a wide variety of taxonomic families.

    • 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 frothy foam.

    • 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.
  4. ›+ 4 more definitions

    1. To ferment.

    2. To rise.

    3. To exaggerate.

    4. A surname.

The neighborhood

Derived

active dry yeast, anti-yeast, baker's yeast, brewer's yeast, compressed yeast, fresh yeast, pseudoyeast, red yeast rice, selenium yeast, sphere-yeast, true yeast, turbo yeast, yeast-bitten, yeast bread, yeast cake, yeast dumpling, yeast extract, yeast infection, yeasty

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at yeast. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at yeast. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at yeast

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA