leavening

«leavening» in Mova's school dictionary: something added to dough or batter, like yeast, baking… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

noun (leavening, uncountable); verb form (-ing form of leaven)

meaning for a pupil

1) Leavening is something added to dough or batter, like yeast, baking powder or baking soda, to make it rise and become light. tree →

2) (literary) A leavening is a small amount of something, like humour, that makes something heavier or more serious better and lighter. tree →

sense in the lessons

Science and cooking: yeast makes gas bubbles that raise bread. Bible and church: unleavened bread (without yeast) at Passover; Jesus spoke of yeast (leaven) in parables. Stories: «a leavening of humour».

examples

• Yeast is the leavening in bread. tree →
• Baking powder is a leavening for cakes. tree →
• Matzah is bread made without leavening. tree →
• Without leavening, the cake came out flat. tree →
• His jokes gave a leavening of fun to the long meeting. tree →
• The class tested which leavening made the dough rise most. tree →

note

Say «LEV-en-ing». Base word: leaven. «Unleavened bread» = flat bread with no yeast.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «leavening» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.