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How to pronounce yeast in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms barm
Type of leavening, leaven
Has types yeast cake, brewer's yeast, mother
Derivation yeasty
Type Words
Type of fungus
Has types brewer's yeast, baker's yeast, saccharomyces cerevisiae, saccharomyces ellipsoides, wine-maker's yeast
Derivation yeasty

Examples of yeast

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Along the way, love blooms alongside the yeast cultures in Molly's petri dishes.
From the ocregister.com
Pour yeast mixture into center and stir until dough can be gathered into a ball.
From the theepochtimes.com
Does this sound right to anyone more experienced with fast-action yeast than me?
From the guardian.co.uk
Even those yummy Sister Shuberts yeast rolls, my personal favorite, are on sale.
From the tennessean.com
Stir in the yeast and allow to sit until the mixture is bubbly, 5 to 10 minutes.
From the latimes.com
This wine is disgorged to order and sits on its yeast in bottle for three years.
From the sltrib.com
Brewers then steam the rice and add yeast to it so it will ferment before aging.
From the dailynews.com
Recombivax HB is made by inserting a gene from the hepatitis B virus into yeast.
From the time.com
The finish has just the right amount of oakiness and yeast to make it a classic.
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  • A commercial leavening agent containing yeast cells; used to raise the dough in making bread and for fermenting beer or whiskey
  • Any of various single-celled fungi that reproduce asexually by budding or division
  • Yeasts are eukaryotic micro-organisms classified in the kingdom Fungi, with the 1,500 species currently described estimated to be only 1% of all yeast species. Most reproduce asexually by budding, although a few do so by binary fission. ...
  • Baker's yeast is the common name for the strains of yeast commonly used as a leavening agent in baking bread and bakery products, where it converts the fermentable sugars present in the dough into carbon dioxide and ethanol. ...
  • An often humid, yellowish froth produced by fermenting malt worts, and used to brew beer, leaven bread, and also used in certain medicines; A type of single-celled fungus; A compressed cake or dried granules of this substance used for mixing with flour to make bread dough rise; A frothy foam; ...
  • (Yeasts) One-cell microorganisms responsible for transforming grape juice into wine.
  • (Yeasts) Single-celled organisms that reproduce by budding. They are found in and on muscle foods but play only a small role in the ecology of these products.
  • (Yeasts) A group of microorganisms which reproduce by budding. They are used in fermenting some foods and in leavening breads.
  • (YEASTS) fungi which in many cases are unicellular, though some produce hyphae; most yeasts are anamorphs; their cells are conidia, and they multiply by various kinds of conidiogenesis. Some can produce asci, some can form basidia, and some appear to be anamorphic holomorphs -- entirely asexual.