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English

Etymology

{{term|fermentare||to leaven, ferment|lang=la}} < {{term|fermentum||substance causing fermentation|lang=la}} < {{term|fervere||to boil, seethe|lang=la}}. Confer French , see also .

Pronunciation


Verb

  1. To produce alcohol by allowing yeast to act on sugars in a mixture, to brew.
  2. To stir up, agitate, cause unrest.


Translations

Noun

  1. Something, such as a yeast that causes fermentation.
  2. A state of agitation or of turbulent change.
  3. A catalyst.


Quotations

;state of agitation

  • 1919, w:Ronald Firbank|Ronald Firbank, w:Valmouth|Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 104
  • : Clad in a Persian-Renaissance gown and a widow's tiara of white batiste, Mrs Thoroughfare, in all the ferment of a Marriage-Christening, left her chamber on vapoury autumn day and descending a few stairs, and climbing a few others, knocked a trifle brusquely at her son's wife's door.


Translations

See also


References


Category:Biochemistry Category:Chemistry

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French

Verb

  1. {{form of|third-person|Third-person plural present indicative|fermer#French|fermer|lang=French}}
  2. {{form of|Third-person plural present subjunctive|fermer#French|fermer|lang=French}}


fr:ferment io:ferment it:ferment pl:ferment ru:ferment ta:ferment te:ferment vi:ferment zh:ferment

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Ferment \Fer"ment\, n. [L. fermentum ferment (in senses 1 & 2),
perh. for fervimentum, fr. fervere to be boiling hot, boil,
ferment: cf. F. ferment. Cf. 1st Barm, Fervent.]
1. That which causes fermentation, as yeast, barm, or
fermenting beer.
[1913 Webster]

Note: Ferments are of two kinds: (a) Formed or organized
ferments. (b) Unorganized or structureless ferments.
The latter are now called enzymes and were formerly
called soluble ferments or chemical ferments.
Ferments of the first class are as a rule simple
microscopic vegetable organisms, and the fermentations
which they engender are due to their growth and
development; as, the acetic ferment, the {butyric
ferment}, etc. See Fermentation. Ferments of the
second class, on the other hand, are chemical
substances; as a rule they are proteins soluble in
glycerin and precipitated by alcohol. In action they
are catalytic and, mainly, hydrolytic. Good examples
are pepsin of the dastric juice, ptyalin of the salvia,
and disease of malt. Before 1960 the term "ferment" to
mean "enzyme" fell out of use. Enzymes are now known to
be globular proteins, capable of catalyzing a wide
variety of chemical reactions, not merely hydrolytic.
The full set of enzymes causing production of ethyl
alcohol from sugar has been identified and individually
purified and studied. See enzyme.
[1913 Webster +PJC]

2. Intestine motion; heat; tumult; agitation.
[1913 Webster]

Subdue and cool the ferment of desire. --Rogers.
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the nation is in a ferment. --Walpole.
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3. A gentle internal motion of the constituent parts of a
fluid; fermentation. [R.]
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Down to the lowest lees the ferment ran. --Thomson.
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ferment oils, volatile oils produced by the fermentation of
plants, and not originally contained in them. These were
the quintessences of the alchemists. --Ure.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Ferment \Fer*ment"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fermented; p. pr. &
vb. n. Fermenting.] [L. fermentare, fermentatum: cf. F.
fermenter. See Ferment, n.]
To cause ferment or fermentation in; to set in motion; to
excite internal emotion in; to heat.
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Ye vigorous swains! while youth ferments your blood.
--Pope.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Ferment \Fer*ment"\, v. i.
1. 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.
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2. To be agitated or excited by violent emotions.
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But finding no redress, ferment and rage. --Milton.
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The intellect of the age was a fermenting intellect.
--De Quincey.
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WordNet ferment
n 1: a state of agitation or turbulent change or development;
"the political ferment produced a new leadership";
"social unrest" [syn: agitation, fermentation, unrest]
2: a substance capable of bringing about fermentation
3: a process in which an agent causes an organic substance to
break down into simpler substances; especially, the
anaerobic breakdown of sugar into alcohol [syn: zymosis,
zymolysis, fermentation, fermenting]
4: a chemical phenomenon in which an organic molecule splits
into simpler substances [syn: fermentation]
v 1: be in an agitated or excited state; "The Middle East is
fermenting"; "Her mind ferments"
2: work up into agitation or excitement; "Islam is fermenting
Africa"
3: cause to undergo fermentation; "We ferment the grapes for a
very long time to achieve high alcohol content"; "The
vintner worked the wine in big oak vats" [syn: work]
4: go sour or spoil; "The milk has soured"; "The wine worked";
"The cream has turned--we have to throw it out" [syn: sour,
turn, work]
Moby Dictionary
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leaven , leavening , maelstrom , malaise , metamerism , metamerization ,
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scramble , seethe , seething , set on , shake , shake up , sic on ,
simmer , smolder , soda , sour , sparkle , spasm , spumescence , spurt ,
stew , stir , stir the embers , stir up , storminess , sulfate ,
sulfatize , sulfonate , sweat , swirl , swirling , tempestuousness ,
tickle , tiff , to-do , transformer , transmogrifier , trepidation ,
trepidity , trouble , tumult , tumultuation , tumultuousness ,
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unquiet , unrest , upheaval , uproar , upset , upturn , vinegar , vortex ,
whet , whip , whip up , whirl , whisk , wildness , work , work up ,
working , yeast , yeastiness , zeal , zealousness


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