leavens

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İngilizce - İngilizce
third-person singular of leaven
plural of , leaven
leaven
To add a leavening agent
leaven
To temper an action or decision

With fresh material, taxonomic conclusions are leavened by recognition that the material examined reflects the site it occupied; a herbarium packet gives one only a small fraction of the data desirable for sound conclusions. Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get.

leaven
Any agent used to make dough rise or to have a similar effect on baked goods
leaven
to make light by fermentation, as dough
leaven
{v} to ferment, raise, taint
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{n} dough fermented, a mixture
leaven
Adding a leaving agent such as yeast, baking powder or baking soda to ingredients in order to allow either dough or batter to rise Lukewarm: Temperatures of about 95 degrees F , that feel neither warm nor cold when dabbed on the inside of the wrist
leaven
To imbue; to infect; to vitiate
leaven
Any substance that produces, or is designed to produce, fermentation, as in dough or liquids; esp
leaven
a substance used to produce fermentation in dough or a liquid
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an influence that works subtly to lighten or modify something; "his sermons benefited from a leavening of humor"
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{i} substance (such as yeast) which causes a batter or dough to ferment and rise; something that causes gradual change, something which alters or transforms
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As a verb, to cause to rise As a noun, an ingredient incorporated into bread dough which causes the dough to rise through the release of CO2 through either a chemical process (as baking powder and/baking soda) or through a metabolic process of fermentation
leaven
To cause to rise by fermentation
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To make light by the action of leaven; to cause to ferment
leaven
{f} add a leavening agent to a dough or batter; influence, cause gradual change, alter or transform
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Anything which makes a general assimilating (especially a corrupting) change in the mass
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If a situation or activity is leavened by or with something, it is made more interesting or cheerful. His mood of deep pessimism cannot have been leavened by his mode of transport -- a black cab He found congenial officers who knew how to leaven war's rigours with riotous enjoyment. to make something less boring, serious, or sad
leaven
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
leaven
To cause dough or batter to rise by use of a leavening agent, such as baking powder, baking soda or yeast which releases gases during preparation and baking
leaven
an influence that works subtly to lighten or modify something; "his sermons benefited from a leavening of humor" a substance used to produce fermentation in dough or a liquid
leaven
cause to puff up with a leaven; "unleavened bread"
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