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Definition: Barm |
BarmNoun1. A commercial leavening agent containing yeast cells; used to raise the dough in making bread and for fermenting beer or whiskey. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "barm" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references) |
Synonym: BarmSynonym: yeast (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Bubble | Noun: bubble, foam, froth, head, spume, lather, suds, spray, surf, yeast, barm, spindrift. |
Levity | Leaven, ferment, barm, yeast. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Barm |
| English words defined with "barm": Newing. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "barm": Beggars' Barm. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Barm" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Danish (bosom), Norwegian (bosom), Swedish (bosom, breast, bust, heart). |
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| "Barm Window" by Justin T. Martin Commentary: "Barn Window." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| "Barm" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 88.89% of the time. "Barm" is used about 9 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 88.89% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 11.11% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 9 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "barm": barm-stormer. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
barm pottery | 11 |
barm | 3 |
barm dress | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "barm"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | maja birre. (various references) | |
Arabic | خميرة (enzyme, ferment, leaven, leavening, sourness, yeast). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | бирена мая. (various references) | |
Danish | baermeoel (barm beer). (various references) | |
Dutch | gistbier (barm beer). (various references) | |
Finnish | hiivainen olut (barm beer). (various references) | |
French | levure de bière. (various references) | |
German | bärme. (various references) | |
Greek | προζύμι (yeast, zyme), αφρόσ ζύθου σε βρασμό. (various references) | |
Hungarian | sörélesztõ, élesztő (regenerating, regenerative, yeast, yeast cake). (various references) | |
Indonesian | ragi (baking-powder, leaven, yeast). (various references) | |
Italian | fermento (ferment, yeast). (various references) | |
Manx | jiastyn (leaven, yeast), jastee (leaven, yeast). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | armbay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | levedura (leaven, leavening, yeast), levedo de cerveja, fermento (baker's yeast, ferment, leaven, leavening, yeast). (various references) | |
Romanian | drojdie de bere (yeast), drojdie (draff, dregs, grounds, Lees, residue, scum, tailing, yeast), dosnicã. (various references) | |
Russian | пивные дрожжи, дрожжи (ferment, leaven, yeast, yeasts). (various references) | |
Scottish | beirm, bairm. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | maja (ferment, leavening, starter), kvasac (ferment, leaven, leavening, yeast). (various references) | |
Spanish | levadura de cerveza (yeast). (various references) | |
Swedish | jästskum. (various references) | |
Turkish | bira köpüğü, maya (ferment, leaven, maya, sourdough, yeast, yeast powder). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | закваска (ferment, leaven, sourdough, yeast), дріжджі (leaven, yeast). (various references) | |
Welsh | burum (yeast), berman, berem. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "barm": barmaid, barmaids, barman, barmen, barmie, barmier, barmiest, barms, barmy. (additional references) | |
Words containing "barm": debarment, debarments, disbarment, disbarments. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-m-r" | |
-1 letter: arb, arm, bam, bar, bra, mar, ram. | |
-2 letters: ab, am, ar, ba, ma. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-m-r" | |
+1 letter: amber, ambry, barms, barmy, bream, embar, mbira, rumba, umbra. | |
+2 letters: ambari, ambary, ambeer, ambers, ambery, ambler, barium, barman, barmen, barmie, blamer, brahma, breams, bregma, bromal, brumal, camber, crambe, crambo, embark, embars, ferbam, gambir, imbark, labrum, lamber, lumbar, marble, marbly, mbiras, mihrab, mimbar, ramble, rhumba, rumbas, sambar, sambur, tambur, umbrae, umbral, umbras. | |
+3 letters: ambaris, ambeers, amblers, ambries, ambroid, armband, bagworm, balmier, bariums, barmaid, barmier, barroom, beamier, becharm, besmear, beswarm, birdman, blamers, bombard, brahmas, bramble, brambly, breamed, brecham, bromals, bromate, buckram, cambers, cambric, caramba, chamber, clamber, crambes, crambos, embargo, embarks, embrace, ferbams, fibroma, fimbria, gambier, gambirs, gambler, gambrel, hamburg, imbarks, labarum, labrums, lambers, lambert, lambier, lumbars, macaber, macabre, marabou, marbled, marbler, marbles, marimba, megabar, mihrabs, mimbars, minibar, rambled, rambler, rambles, rhabdom, rhumbas, rumbaed, sambars, sambhar, sambhur, samburs, tambour, tambura, tamburs, timbral, umbrage. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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