yeast

IPA(Pronunciation)

/jiːst/

Noun

countable uncountable figuratively

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.

Japanese Meaning

発酵によって生成される、湿気を帯びた黄色みがかった泡状物質で、ビールの醸造、パンの発酵、医薬品への利用に用いられる。 / Saccharomycetales目に属する真性酵母、または出芽酵母を指す。

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The brewer skimmed the yeast from the top of the fermenting vat and saved it for the next batch.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

醸造者は発酵中の槽の表面から、麦芽汁が発酵してできる黄色がかった湿った泡をすくい取り、次の仕込みのために保存した。

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A true yeast or budding yeast in order Saccharomycetales.

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

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(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.

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