yeast

«yeast» in Mova's school dictionary: a tiny living thing, a kind of fungus, used to make bread… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (yeast, yeasts)

meaning for a pupil

1) Yeast is a tiny living thing, a kind of fungus, used to make bread rise and to make beer. tree →

2) Yeast is the powder or block of these organisms that people buy for baking. tree →

sense in the lessons

In science lessons pupils feed yeast with sugar and warm water and watch it make bubbles of gas (carbon dioxide). In cooking, yeast makes bread dough rise. Phrases: dried yeast, fresh yeast, yeast extract (spreads like Marmite and Vegemite).

examples

• Add yeast to the dough to make it rise. tree →
• Yeast is a living thing. tree →
• Yeast feeds on sugar and makes gas bubbles. tree →
• Warm water helps the yeast work. tree →
• Vegemite is made from yeast extract. tree →
• The balloon on the bottle filled with gas from the yeast. tree →
• A packet of yeast makes two loaves. tree →
• Too hot water can kill yeast. tree →

note

Mostly uncountable. Pronounced YEEST. Yeast is a fungus, not a plant or an animal. Trap: baking powder makes cakes rise without being alive; yeast is alive.

In the corpora

• The dough is full of yeast, a tiny living fungus, which eats sugar and breathes out carbon dioxide gas.
• Not all bread needs yeast: pitta and tortillas are flat, and pitta puffs up only because water inside turns to steam.
• And yeast has a cousin nobody invited: the fluffy mould on old bread.
• Yeast is a tiny living fungus; in dough it eats sugar and gives off carbon dioxide gas that puffs the dough up.
• Flatbreads like pitta and tortilla are made without yeast; pitta gets its pocket because water inside turns to steam in a hot oven.

Trees and pragmatics

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