different between spume vs yeast

English

Etymology

From Middle English spume, from Old French espume, from Latin sp?ma.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /spju?m/
• Rhymes: -u?m

Noun

spume (countable and uncountable, plural spumes)

1. Foam or froth of liquid, particularly that of seawater.
   • 1855, Robert Browning, “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came”, XIX:

     No sluggish tide congenial to the glooms; / This, as it frothed by, might have been a bath / For the fiend's glowing hoof - to see the wrath / Of its black eddy bespate with flakes and spumes.

   • 1906, Jack London, White Fang, part I, ch I,

     Their breath froze in the air as it left their mouths, spouting forth in spumes of vapour that settled upon the hair of their bodies and formed into crystals of frost.

Derived terms

• spumous
• spumy

Translations

Verb

spume (third-person singular simple present spumes, present participle spuming, simple past and past participle spumed)

1. To froth.

Anagrams

• pumse

Italian

Noun

spume f

1. plural of spuma

Middle English

Alternative forms

• spome (Northern)

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French espume, from Latin sp?ma.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?spiu?m(?)/

Noun

spume (uncountable)

1. spume, foam

Related terms

• spumen
• spumous

Descendants

• English: spume

References

• “sp?me, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

English

Etymology

From Middle English yest, yeest, gest, gist, from Old English ?ist, ?yst, 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”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: y?st, IPA^(key): /ji?st/
• (rare) IPA^(key): /i?st/
• Rhymes: -i?st

Noun

yeast (countable and uncountable, plural yeasts)

1. An often humid, yellowish froth produced by fermenting malt worts, and used to brew beer, leaven bread, and also used in certain medicines.
2. A single-celled fungus of a wide variety of taxonomic families.
   1. A true yeast or budding yeast in order Saccharomycetales.
      1. baker's yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae
         1. A compressed cake or dried granules of this substance used for mixing with flour to make bread dough rise.
      2. brewer's yeast, certain species of Saccharomyces, principally Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Saccharomyces carlsbergensis.
   2. Candida, a ubiquitous fungus that can cause various kinds of infections in humans.
      1. The resulting infection, candidiasis.
3. (figuratively) A frothy foam.
   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick:

     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.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• leaven
• nutritional yeast

Verb

yeast (third-person singular simple present yeasts, present participle yeasting, simple past and past participle yeasted)

1. To ferment.
2. (of something prepared with a yeasted dough) To rise.
3. (African-American Vernacular, slang) To exaggerate

References

Anagrams

• Yates, Yeats, as yet, teasy, yates, yeats