(n.) Anything which makes a general assimilating (especially a corrupting) change in the mass.
(n.) Any substance that produces, or is designed to produce, fermentation, as in dough or liquids; esp., a portion of fermenting dough, which, mixed with a larger quantity of dough, produces a general change in the mass, and renders it light; yeast; barm.
(v. t.) To make light by the action of leaven; to cause to ferment.
(v. t.) To imbue; to infect; to vitiate.
Example Sentences:
(1) Gellatly believes that anyone can make their own bread at home and, for a sourdough loaf, the process begins with a tangy starter (sometimes also known as a mother or leaven).
(2) One reader wondered whether good fantasy narrative needed perceptions of "reality" in order "to leaven it".
(3) Any such levity, however, is leavened by the tacit acknowledgment that existence is futile, and we are all just bags of flesh and bones whiling away the days before death and putrefaction sets in.
(4) The predominance of S. exiguus, its vigor in the particular acidic environment of the sour dough, and the correlation of its numbers with the leavening function constitute strong evidence on the role of this organism in the sour dough system.
(5) There was always a rueful melancholy, stiffened by irony and leavened by humour about him.
(6) After the death of Alexander the Great in 323BC the Greek garrisons of India and Afghanistan found themselves cut off from their Mediterranean homeland, and had no choice but to stay on, intermingling with the local peoples, and leavening Indian learning with classical philosophy.
(7) Twenty breads with leavening times varying from 0 to 120 h were prepared.
(8) The phytic acid content of bread containing bran was reduced to about 40% after 2 h of leavening and to 15% after 2 d. No further decrease was observed.
(9) This paper takes as index the content of free acids and total acids, the action of pepsin in the stomachs of hungry mice, impelling functions and intestines of hungry mice and makes a comparison of the raw products with the processed products of medicated leaven.
(10) The Telegraph, for whom he writes that weekly column, says he would be the business secretary , but that must be the paper’s attempt to leaven all the hard news with comedy.
(11) Extrinsic labeling of the calcium of whole-wheat flour results in a degree of labeling homogeneity equivalent to that of intrinsic labeling, at least for a leavened bread product.
(12) The feasibility of adding chick-pea flour substituting part of wheat flour in yeast-leavened bread-making in order to increase the protein value, was studied.
(13) In the majority opinion of Kimble v Marvel Enterprises, justice Elena Kagan sprinkled quotes and allusions to Spider-Man into the court’s decision, using unusually wry language to leaven the ruling about a patent for “web-slinging fun”.
(14) The relative biological value of thiamin in leavened bread (whole wheat and thiamin-restored white) and thiamin mononitrate was examined by using thiamin-deficient rats as the test model.
(15) And God and the church who live in our cities want to be leaven in the dough, and relate to everyone, to stand at everyone’s side.” It was a message crafted for a city not famous for compassion but recognised as open, tolerant and dynamic.
(16) To study the biological value of kumyss leaven, experiments were made with mono-cultures contained by kumyss leaven.
(17) The accounts, in my view at least, are not sufficiently sifted and leavened and tempered by time and distance.
(18) These are admittedly extravagant additions and the leavened dough crust requires a little effort, too, but if this pudding didn't merit the work I'd be the first to forsake it.
(19) Although fructooligosaccharide inhibited the dough leavening ability of YOY920, white bread containing fructooligosaccharide could be produced in the defined dough formula using the new strain.
(20) Pitch Strenuous workouts leavened by lots of cheeky-chappie banter.
Leaver
Definition:
(n.) One who leaves, or withdraws.
Example Sentences:
(1) I f you haven’t got a family, you need that replaced in some way, that’s the most important thing you can do for someone in care,” says 24-year-old Chloe Juliette, herself a care leaver.
(2) If the leavers are seeking a culprit, they need only look in the mirror.
(3) Oh, and that it's going to be really tough for school-leavers to find jobs over the next few years, which will just pile the pressure on degree-course places.
(4) And, for many of those in care, the local authority services that are meant to support them fall short, with those in charge failing to listen to what care leavers really need and want.
(5) Newham council said some of the women in the hostel might qualify for the 15 units it makes available each year for hostel leavers.
(6) If the Leavers are to prevail on 23 June, they have to be able to deliver straightforward, compelling answers to the obvious questions.
(7) Only by looking closely could you see that they had included both undergraduate and postgraduate course leavers.
(8) Every day looked after children and care leavers face unfair and unjust discrimination.
(9) These motives were satisfactorily realised, according to the 'stayers'; and 'leavers' scored less favourably, but still at a high level.
(10) Half the leavers were aged 20-40, and twice as many as a decade ago had degrees.
(11) Sounds as if it had better get a move on or there won't be any university language departments for linguistically able school leavers to take their degrees in and train to be the language teachers, translators and interpreters of the future.
(12) Duncalf believes the key to developing a better transition for those leaving care is to look at the whole life of a leaver, not just a snapshot and Duncalf's current project to capture this whole life cycle through the collection of oral histories aims to do this.
(13) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Cuts in local mental health services have also affected care leavers disproportionately.
(14) Facebook Twitter Pinterest ‘I’ve got a Theresa May outfit ready for leavers’ day at school’: first-time voter Isaac, 18, in Nottingham.
(15) One posting states that any sixth-form students who attended a leavers’ party and engaged in ‘free-mixing’ or ‘listening to music’ would face ‘severe consequences later’,” inspectors noted.
(16) The life story books giving adopted children memories of their past Read more Having a cut-off in England that deprives many care leavers of statutory support after the age of 18 means that many are left to fend for themselves in a way that sets them up to fail.
(17) The aim of the study was to see how effectively a group of Scottish school leavers coped with the change.
(18) But the forecasts raised concerns that young people are missing out in the recovery, prompting Longworth's warning that school leavers and graduates could be missing out.
(19) Be in no doubt: the leavers’ recruitment of Gove, a man of intellect and integrity, is a fillip to their cause.
(20) The results justify both the reservation of places offered to nonschool leavers and the system used for their selection.