English Dictionary

yeast

/jiːst/

noun

An often humid, yellowish froth produced by fermenting malt worts, and used to brew beer, leaven bread, and also used in certain medicines. / A true yeast or budding yeast in order Saccharomycetales.

Yeast is used in baking to help dough rise.

意味（1）

An often humid, yellowish froth produced by fermenting malt worts, and used to brew beer, leaven bread, and also used in certain medicines.

意味（2）

A true yeast or budding yeast in order Saccharomycetales.

意味（3）

Candida, a ubiquitous fungus that can cause various kinds of infections in humans.

意味（4）

(figuratively) A frothy foam.

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.