| 单词 | leaven |
| 释义 | leaven (once / 1841 pages) nv Leaven, as a noun, is that which causes transformation. It’s the source of yeast that makes your bread rise, it’s the risen bread, and it’s anything that changes the nature of something else. Coming from the French verb levare, which means “to raise,” leaven changes everything. It makes dough go from flat to loaf, and it’s also the term to describe the risen dough before it’s baked. And leaven can be anything that causes transformation — "Winning the lottery will be the leaven that allows you to travel the world." Additionally it’s a verb: "When you bake bread, you leaven the dough to make it rise." WORD FAMILYleaven: leavened, leavening, leavens+/leavened: unleavened/leavening: leavenings USAGE EXAMPLESAnd while both are leavened with wit, they are fundamentally serious plays. New York Times(Dec 28, 2016) Yet the sorrow is leavened by plenty of righteous fury and biting humour. Economist(Nov 29, 2016) It was Obama at his finest: full of emotional power, oratorical grace and leavening wit. The Guardian(Nov 26, 2016) 1n a substance used to produce fermentation in dough or a liquid Syn|Hypo|Hyper leavening baking powder any of various powdered mixtures used in baking as a substitute for yeast sourdougha leaven of dough in which fermentation is active; used by pioneers for making bread barm, yeasta commercial leavening agent containing yeast cells; used to raise the dough in making bread and for fermenting beer or whiskey yeast cakesmall cake of compressed moist yeast brewer's yeastyeast used in fermenting beer mothera stringy slimy substance consisting of yeast cells and bacteria; forms during fermentation and is added to cider or wine to produce vinegar substance a particular kind or species of matter with uniform properties 2n an influence that works subtly to lighten or modify something Syn|Hyper leavening imponderable a factor whose effects cannot be accurately assessed 3v cause to puff up with a leaven Syn|Hyper prove, raise bring up, elevate, get up, lift, raise raise from a lower to a higher position |
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