(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.
Suffuse
Definition:
(v. t.) To overspread, as with a fluid or tincture; to fill or cover, as with something fluid; as, eyes suffused with tears; cheeks suffused with blushes.
Example Sentences:
(1) Alkalosis of the Hepes suffusate shortened the AP; but equivalent alkalosis of the K-R suffusate prolonged the AP as did a reduction of [CaCl2] in Hepes suffusate from 3.0 to 1.5 mM at pH 7.43.
(2) A similar strain difference was not observed with topical suffusion.
(3) Fetal cardiovascular (CVS) changes, forelimb movements (FM) and rates of habituation to repeated stimulation, with suffusions of cold saline over the skin, were measured in 12 chronically catheterized fetal sheep aged 130-145 days.
(4) All good things must come to an end and, sure enough, Chelsea’s 23-game unbeaten run was brought to a shuddering halt by Alan Pardew’s pace-suffused counterattacking specialists.
(5) Tc-99m albumin isotopic cisternography at the L5-S1 level was performed and clearly depicted a functional CSF leak through the dura at the L2-L3 level and CSF suffusion along several rachidian roots.
(6) Myocytes were suffused with increasing concentrations of halocarbon added as a 0.2% solution of dimethyl sulfoxide to M199 containing 1.8 mM Ca and 5% serum.
(7) Clinical disturbances bound to ischemic phenomenons by cerebral vasospasm were observed in only 3 patients--all of them older than 17--in who a CT scan had showed a conspicuous cisternal blood suffusion.
(8) In tubules perfused with 2 mM ethylene glycol-bis(beta-aminoethyl ether)-N,N,N',N'-tetraacetic acid to eliminate luminal Ca, but suffused with 1.8 or 2.0 mM Ca, 8-BrcAMP increased [Ca2+]i (though less so than with Ca in the lumen), implying Ca entry across basolateral cell membranes.
(9) While his vision of a future Russia has often been vaguely shaped – as a nebulous "vast metaphysical Canada" – it has been suffused with a strong strand of sometimes xenophobic nationalism.
(10) Glutamine suffusion attenuated the flow impairment by dilation of previllus arterioles but to a lesser degree than that observed in glucose-treated animals.
(11) We must have a debate which will be suffused with a deep pride at our achievements in office.
(12) In contrast to La La Land’s romantic score, which suffused the ceremony, speaker after speaker took swipes at Trump’s crackdown on refugees and immigrants, making it one of the most politically tinged Oscars in memory.
(13) Other features include upper body edema and ruddiness or cyanosis, distended neck veins, proptosis, and conjunctival suffusion.
(14) He sat suffused with grey pallor, lips pursed, staring straight ahead as he listened to his defence counsel, William Coker QC, describe his genuine remorse.
(15) Autopsy visualized plurifocal haematic suffusions, typical for an asphyxial status.
(16) In normal vessels, reduced D and Vc, relative to peak values, were noted after 40 min suffusion with BK.
(17) Furthermore, the reactive hyperemia was not altered by suffusion of 50 microM hydroquinone or 0.2 mM NG-monomethyl-L-arginine, inhibitors of the dilation to acetylcholine mediated by the endothelium-derived relaxing factor.
(18) To quantify the integrated effects of local and central control mechanisms through tissue metabolites and the autonomic nervous system on the peripheral vascular beds, microcirculatory responses to the carotid sinus nerve stimulation at various levels of ambient oxygen tension (PO2) were measured in the rabbit tenuissimus muscle suffused with oxygenated Tyrode solution, using a microscope-TV system.
(19) During suffusion in situ with control PSS, VSM of both small veins and arteries in older (but not younger)SHR were less polarized than in WKY.
(20) Experimental materials are presented to the microvessels via intraarterial injection or suffusion through the chamber.