Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Something, such as a yeast, bacterium, mold, or enzyme, that causes fermentation.
- noun Fermentation.
- noun A state of agitation or of turbulent change or development.
- noun An agent that precipitates or is capable of precipitating such a state; a catalyst.
- intransitive verb To produce by or as if by fermentation.
- intransitive verb To cause to undergo fermentation.
- intransitive verb To make turbulent; excite or agitate.
- intransitive verb To undergo fermentation.
- intransitive verb To be in an excited or agitated state; seethe.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A gentle boiling, or the internal motion of the constituent parts of a fluid.
- noun That which is capable of causing fermentation.
- noun Figuratively, commotion; heat; tumult; agitation: as, to put the passions in a ferment.
- To cause to boil gently; cause ebullition in.
- To cause fermentation in.
- Figuratively, to set in agitation; excite; arouse.
- To undergo fermentation.
- Figuratively, to be in agitation; be excited, as by violent emotions or passions, or great problems.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To undergo fermentation; to be in motion, or to be excited into sensible internal motion, as the constituent particles of an animal or vegetable fluid; to work; to effervesce.
- intransitive verb To be agitated or excited by violent emotions.
- transitive verb To cause ferment or fermentation in; to set in motion; to excite internal emotion in; to heat.
- noun That which causes fermentation, as yeast, barm, or fermenting beer.
- noun Intestine motion; heat; tumult; agitation.
- noun rare A gentle internal motion of the constituent parts of a fluid; fermentation.
- noun volatile oils produced by the fermentation of plants, and not originally contained in them. These were the
quintessences of the alchemists.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To react, using
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stir up,agitate , causeunrest . - noun Something, such as a
yeast that causesfermentation . - noun A state of
agitation or ofturbulent change . - noun A
catalyst .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a substance capable of bringing about fermentation
- noun a state of agitation or turbulent change or development
- verb be in an agitated or excited state
- verb cause to undergo fermentation
- verb work up into agitation or excitement
- noun a process in which an agent causes an organic substance to break down into simpler substances; especially, the anaerobic breakdown of sugar into alcohol
- verb go sour or spoil
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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It has been known for a long time that the pancreatic juice contains all the three ferments which act on the major food substances - a protein ferment, which is different from the gastric ferment, a starch ferment and a fat ferment.
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Or did you notice? — and I wonder what all the ferment is about.
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I grew up and started hooping when the ferment from the high Sixties had not yet retreated so much.
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That may be true, but these are delicate skills to master and practice, and who in the social media ferment is evangelising them?
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That may be true, but these are delicate skills to master and practice, and who in the social media ferment is evangelising them?
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Copyright and patent are in ferment because of the digital revolution.
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Date-wine (ferment from the fruit, not the Tádi, or juice of the stem, our “toddy”) is called Fazikh.
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Simultaneously we established that the walls of the upper section of the intestine secrete a special fermentative substance the action of which is to transform the inactive pancreatic protein ferment into an active one.
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I refer to his extremely interesting observation that a certain ferment or more correctly
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In a few minutes the gastric reagent, an acid solution of the gastric protein ferment, begins to exude from the walls of the stomach.
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