gluten

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim Fibrin (formerly considered as one of the "animal humours").

   “The Radicall or innate, is dayly ſupplied by nouriſhment, which ſome call Cambium, and make thoſe ſecundary Humors of Ros and Gluten to maintaine it: […]”

2. isim Any gluey, sticky substance.

   “[T]he Fly suspends it self very firmly and easily, without the access or need of any such Sponges fill'd with an imaginary gluten, as many have, for want of good Glasses, perhaps, or a troublesome and diligent examination, suppos'd.”

3. isim The major protein in cereal grains, especially wheat; responsible for the elasticity in dough and the structure in baked bread.

   “Unfortunately, wholemeal bread is, according to many experts, a tricky thing to get right, as the lower gluten content of the flour makes for dense results […]”

4. isim A gluey, sticky mass of clay, bitumen etc.

   “Despite constant rain that turned roads to gluten, the Yankees kept moving.”