Noun: yeast
| Singular | yeast |
| Plural | yeasts |
Sample Sentences
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A microscopical examination of the yeast taken from these rapid vigorous fermentations will only be able to give useful conclusions in one respect. [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:]
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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. [1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:]
Nouns inflected like yeast
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
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”). See: Middle English Nouns '
yest', Dutch Nouns '
gist', German Nouns '
Gischt', Swedish Nouns '
jäst', Icelandic Nouns '
jöstur'.
Verbs referencing "yeast"
Norwegian Bokmål Nouns
jest, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns
jest, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns
jester, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns
jester, Irish Nouns
giosta, German Nouns
Gischt, German Nouns
Gest.