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Definition of Ferment |
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Ferment
That which causes fermentation, as yeast, barm, or fermenting beer. Intestine motion; heat; tumult; agitation. A gentle internal motion of the constituent parts of a fluid; fermentation. To cause ferment of fermentation in; to set in motion; to excite internal emotion in; to heat. To undergo fermentation; to be in motion, or to be excited into sensible internal motion, as the constituent oarticles of an animal or vegetable fluid; to work; to effervesce. To be agitated or excited by violent emotions. Related Definitions: Agitated, Agitation, An, Animal, As, Barm, Be, Beer, By, Cause, Constituent, Effervesce, Emotion, Excite, Excited, Ferment, Fermentation, Fermenting, Fluid, Gentle, Heat, In, Internal, Intestine, Into, Motion, Of, Or, Sensible, Set, That, The, To, Tumult, Undergo, Vegetable, Violent, Which, Work, Yeast |
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Ferment Quotations
It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash. Josh Billings If there is dissatisfaction with the status quo, good. If there is ferment, so much the better. If there is restlessness, I am pleased. Then let there be ideas, and hard thought, and hard work. If man feels small, let man make himself bigger. Hubert H. Humphrey The Chicago Economics Department was in intellectual ferment, although the central issues of the 1930's were very different from those in later times. I had never before encountered minds of that quality at close quarters and they influenced me strongly. George Stigler I put everything I can into the mulberry of my mind and hope that it is going to ferment and make a decent wine. How that process happens, I'm sorry to tell you I can't describe. John Hurt The gastric laboratory uses its protein ferment under an acid reaction. Ivan Pavlov |
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Ferment Translations
ferment in Dutch is fermenteren, werken, gisten ferment in French is fermentent, effervescence, fermentez, ferment ferment in Italian is fermento, fermentare ferment in Spanish is fermentar, fermento |
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