Leaven vs. Barm — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Leaven and Barm
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Leaven
An agent, such as yeast, that causes batter or dough to rise, especially by fermentation.
Barm
Barm is the foam or scum formed on the top of a fermenting liquid, such as beer, wine, or feedstock for spirits or industrial ethanol distillation. It is used to leaven bread, or set up fermentation in a new batch of liquor.
Leaven
An element, influence, or agent that works subtly to lighten, enliven, or modify a whole.
Barm
The yeasty foam that rises to the surface of fermenting malt liquors and can be used to leaven bread.
Leaven
To add a rising agent to.
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Barm
Bosom, lap.
Leaven
To cause to rise, especially by fermentation.
Barm
Foam rising upon beer, or other malt liquors, when fermenting, and used as leaven in making bread and in brewing; yeast.
Leaven
To pervade with a lightening, enlivening, or modifying influence.
Barm
A small, flat, round individual loaf or roll of bread.
Leaven
Any agent used to make dough rise or to have a similar effect on baked goods.
Barm
To spurge; foam
Leaven
(figurative) Anything that induces change, especially a corrupting or vitiating change.
Barm
Foam rising upon beer, or other malt liquors, when fermenting, and used as leaven in making bread and in brewing; yeast.
Leaven
(transitive) To add a leavening agent.
Barm
The lap or bosom.
Leaven
(transitive) To cause to rise by fermentation.
Barm
A commercial leavening agent containing yeast cells; used to raise the dough in making bread and for fermenting beer or whiskey
Leaven
To temper an action or decision.
Leaven
To imbue; to infect; to vitiate.
Leaven
To rise or become larger. en
Leaven
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.
Leaven
Anything which makes a general assimilating (especially a corrupting) change in the mass.
Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.
Leaven
To make light by the action of leaven; to cause to ferment.
A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump.
Leaven
To imbue; to infect; to vitiate.
With these and the like deceivable doctrines, he leavens also his prayer.
Leaven
A substance used to produce fermentation in dough or a liquid
Leaven
An influence that works subtly to lighten or modify something;
His sermons benefited from a leavening of humor
Leaven
Cause to puff up with a leaven;
Unleavened bread
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