YEAST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does yeast mean? 

• YEAST (noun)
  The noun YEAST has 2 senses:

1. a commercial leavening agent containing yeast cells; used to raise the dough in making bread and for fermenting beer or whiskey

2. any of various single-celled fungi that reproduce asexually by budding or division

  Familiarity information: YEAST used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• YEAST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A commercial leavening agent containing yeast cells; used to raise the dough in making bread and for fermenting beer or whiskey

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

barm; yeast

Hypernyms ("yeast" is a kind of...):

leaven; leavening (a substance used to produce fermentation in dough or a liquid)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "yeast"):

yeast cake (small cake of compressed moist yeast)

brewer's yeast (yeast used in fermenting beer)

mother (a stringy slimy substance consisting of yeast cells and bacteria; forms during fermentation and is added to cider or wine to produce vinegar)

Derivation:

yeasty (of or resembling or containing yeast)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Any of various single-celled fungi that reproduce asexually by budding or division

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("yeast" is a kind of...):

fungus (an organism of the kingdom Fungi lacking chlorophyll and feeding on organic matter; ranging from unicellular or multicellular organisms to spore-bearing syncytia)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "yeast"):

baker's yeast; brewer's yeast; Saccharomyces cerevisiae (used as a leaven in baking and brewing)

Saccharomyces ellipsoides; wine-maker's yeast (used in making wine)

Holonyms ("yeast" is a member of...):

Endomycetales; order Endomycetales (fungi having a zygote or a single cell developing directly into an ascus)

Derivation:

yeasty (of or resembling or containing yeast)

 Context examples 

Using yeast as a model organism, the research team examined the connection between Ras activity and the highly active sugar metabolism in yeast.

(Scientists Reveal The Relationship Between Sugar, Cancer, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Butaconazole nitrate is active against many dermatophytes and yeasts.

(Butoconazole, NCI Thesaurus)

The working hypothesis of the researchers was based on recent studies in yeasts and cell cultures generated by some international groups.

(A new pharmacological therapy against a severe kind of deficiency in Coenzyme Q10, University of Granada)

Vitamin D synthesized from ergosterol in yeast and plants.

(Cholecalciferol, NCI Thesaurus/CRCH)

Upon subcutaneous administration, the brachyury-expressing yeast vaccine GI-6301 is recognized by dendritic cells, processed, and presented by Class I and II MHC molecules on the dendritic cell surface.

(Brachyury-expressing Yeast Vaccine GI-6301, NCI Thesaurus)

A mixture of highly sulfated, monophosphorylated mannose oligosaccharides, derived from the extracellular phosphomannan of the yeast Pichia (Hansenula) holstii, with potential antiangiogenic activity.

(Phosphomannopentaose Sulfate, NCI Thesaurus)

It is used in the treatment of yeast infections and cold sores.

(Boric Acid, NCI Thesaurus)

It is like yeast, a ferment, a thing that moves and may move for a minute, an hour, a year, or a hundred years, but that in the end will cease to move.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

It occurs mainly bound to proteins or polypeptides and is abundant in liver, kidney, pancreas, yeast, and milk.

(Biotin, NCI Thesaurus)

A second group of BIR-domain-containing proteins (BIRPs) include mammalian Bruce and Survivin proteins, as well as BIR-containing proteins in yeasts and C. elegans.

(BIR Domain, NCI Thesaurus)