Draught vs. Yeast

in its various senses.

(British) A checker: a game piece used in the game of draughts.

(Australia) Ale: a type of beer brewed using top-fermenting yeast.

A mild vesicatory.

(obsolete) An outhouse: an outbuilding used as a lavatory.

Any picture or drawing.

A sudden attack upon an enemy.

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The act of drawing or pulling

Example: ‘A general custom of using oxen for all sort of draught would be, perhaps, the greatest improvement.’;

The drawing of a bowstring.

Example: ‘She sent an arrow forth with mighty draught.’;

That which is drawn

Example: ‘Launch out into the deep, and let down your nets for a draught.’; ‘He laid down his pipe, and cast his net, which brought him a very great draught.’;

Act of drawing a net; a sweeping the water for fish.

Example: ‘Upon the draught of a pond, not one fish was left.’;

The force drawn; a detachment; - in this sense usually written draft.

Example: ‘Disguise thyself as thou wilt, still, Slavery, . . . still thou art a bitter draught.’; ‘Low lies that house where nut-brown draughts inspired.’;

That which draws

The act of drawing liquor into the mouth and throat; the act of drinking.

Example: ‘In his hands he took the goblet, but a while the draught forbore.’;

A sketch, outline, or representation, whether written, designed, or drawn; a delineation.

Example: ‘A draught of a Toleration Act was offered to the Parliament by a private member.’; ‘No picture or draught of these things from the report of the eye.’;

Capacity of being drawn; force necessary to draw; traction.

Example: ‘The Hertfordshire wheel plow . . . is of the easiest draught.’;

A sudden attack or drawing upon an enemy.

Example: ‘By drawing sudden draughts upon the enemy when he looketh not for you.’;

An order for the payment of money; - in this sense almost always written draft.

Example: ‘He preferred to go and sit upon the stairs, in . . . a strong draught of air, until he was again sent for.’;

The depth of water necessary to float a ship, or the depth a ship sinks in water, especially when laden; as, a ship of twelve feet draught.

The act of selecting or detaching soldiers; a draft (see Draft, n., 2

An allowance on weighable goods. [Eng.] See Draft, 4.

A move, as at chess or checkers.

The bevel given to the pattern for a casting, in order that it may be drawn from the sand without injury to the mold.

See Draft, n., 7.

Used for drawing vehicles, loads, etc.; as, a draught beast; draught hooks.

Relating to, or characterized by, a draft, or current of air.

Used in making drawings; as, draught compasses.

Drawn directly from the barrel, or other receptacle, in distinction from bottled; on draught; - said of ale, cider, and the like.

To draw out; to call forth. See Draft.

To diminish or exhaust by drawing.

Example: ‘The Parliament so often draughted and drained.’;

To draw in outline; to make a draught, sketch, or plan of, as in architectural and mechanical drawing.

a serving of drink (usually alcoholic) drawn from a keg;

Example: ‘they served beer on draft’;

a large and hurried swallow;

Example: ‘he finished it at a single gulp’;

a current of air (usually coming into a room or vehicle)

the depth of a vessel's keel below the surface (especially when loaded)

a dose of liquid medicine;

Example: ‘he took a sleeping draft’;

the act of moving a load by drawing or pulling

make a blueprint of

a current of cool air in a room or other confined space

Example: ‘heavy curtains at the windows cut out draughts’;

a single act of drinking or inhaling

Example: ‘she downed the remaining beer in one draught’;

the amount swallowed or inhaled in a draught

Example: ‘he took deep draughts of oxygen into his lungs’;

a quantity of a liquid with medicinal properties

Example: ‘a sleeping draught’;

the depth of water needed to float a ship

Example: ‘the shallow draught enabled her to get close inshore’;

the drawing in of a fishing net.

the fish taken at one drawing; a catch.

denoting beer or cider served from a barrel or tank rather than from a bottle or can

Example: ‘draught ale’;

denoting an animal used for pulling heavy loads

Example: ‘a draught horse’;

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

A single-celled fungus of a wide variety of taxonomic families.

A true yeast or budding yeast in order Saccharomycetales.

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

(figuratively) A frothy foam.

To ferment.

(of something prepared with a yeasted dough) To rise.

To exaggerate

The foam, or troth (top yeast), or the sediment (bottom yeast), of beer or other in fermentation, which contains the yeast plant or its spores, and under certain conditions produces fermentation in saccharine or farinaceous substances; a preparation used for raising dough for bread or cakes, and making it light and puffy; barm; ferment.

Spume, or foam, of water.

Example: ‘They melt thy yeast of waves, which marAlike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar.’;

A form of fungus which grows as individual rounded cells, rather than in a mycelium, and reproduces by budding; esp. members of the orders Endomycetales and Moniliales. Some fungi may grow both as a yeast or as a mycelium, depending on the conditions of growth.

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

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

a microscopic fungus consisting of single oval cells that reproduce by budding, and capable of converting sugar into alcohol and carbon dioxide.

a greyish-yellow preparation of the yeast fungus obtained chiefly from fermented beer, used as a fermenting agent, to raise bread dough, and as a food supplement.

any unicellular fungus that reproduces vegetatively by budding or fission, including forms such as candida that can cause disease.

Yeasts are eukaryotic, single-celled microorganisms classified as members of the fungus kingdom. The first yeast originated hundreds of millions of years ago, and at least 1,500 species are currently recognized.