FERMENT
\fɜːmˈɛnt], \fɜːmˈɛnt], \f_ɜː_m_ˈɛ_n_t]\
Definitions of FERMENT
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
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- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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be in an agitated or excited state; "The Middle East is fermenting"; "Her mind ferments"
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a process in which an agent causes an organic substance to break down into simpler substances; especially, the anaerobic breakdown of sugar into alcohol
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a substance capable of bringing about fermentation
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go sour or spoil; "The milk has soured"; "The wine worked"; "The cream has turned--we have to throw it out"
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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"
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work up into agitation or excitement; "Islam is fermenting Africa"
By Princeton University
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be in an agitated or excited state; "The Middle East is fermenting"; "Her mind ferments"
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a process in which an agent causes an organic substance to break down into simpler substances; especially, the anaerobic breakdown of sugar into alcohol
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a substance capable of bringing about fermentation
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go sour or spoil; "The milk has soured"; "The wine worked"; "The cream has turned--we have to throw it out"
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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"
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work up into agitation or excitement; "Islam is fermenting Africa"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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That which causes fermentation, as yeast, barm, or fermenting beer.
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Intestine motion; heat; tumult; agitation.
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A gentle internal motion of the constituent parts of a fluid; fermentation.
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To cause ferment of fermentation in; to set in motion; to excite internal emotion in; to heat.
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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.
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To be agitated or excited by violent emotions.
By Oddity Software
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That which causes fermentation, as yeast, barm, or fermenting beer.
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Intestine motion; heat; tumult; agitation.
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A gentle internal motion of the constituent parts of a fluid; fermentation.
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To cause ferment of fermentation in; to set in motion; to excite internal emotion in; to heat.
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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.
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To be agitated or excited by violent emotions.
By Noah Webster.
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That which causes chemical change or fermentation; a gentle boiling or swelling in a liquid; internal commotion; tumult.
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To produce chemical change or fermentation in; excite.
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To be in a state of fermentation; effervesce or bubble; be excited.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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To cause or to undergo fermentation.
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A substance which, in small amount, is capable of causing the decomposition of large quantities of an organic compound, itself often undergoing no apparent change.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
By William R. Warner
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What excites fermentation, as yeast, leaven; internal motion amongst the parts of a fluid; agitation; tumult.
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To excite fermentation; to inflame.
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To rise and swell by the action of fermentation; to work, used of wine, etc.; to be in excited action; to be stirred with anger.
By Daniel Lyons
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Agitation; yeast or leaven.
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To agitate; excite fermentation.
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To become agitated; to undergo change, with evolution of gas, as dough, wort, &c.
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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To produce fermentation in; agitate.
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To undergo fermentation; be in agitation.
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Fermentabillty.
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Fermentable.
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Excitement or agitation.
By James Champlin Fernald
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A substance in a state of decay or putrefaction which excites fermentation; internal motion of the constituent parts of a fluid; commotiou; heat; tumult; agitation.
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To excite fermentation in; to stir up; to inflame.
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To work; to be in a state of fermentation internally; to be excited or agitated.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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To cause to rise or swell by yeast, as dough; to cause to froth up by the addition of yeast; to effervesce; to produce a boiling or frothy motion in any substance, as in a liquid.
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That which possesses the power of inducing fermentation; agitation; tumult; intestine motion.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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A substance, organized or unorganized, capable of producing fermentation.
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
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The Iatrochymists applied this name to imaginary substances, Fermenta morbi, to which they attributed the power of producing disease, by exciting a fermentation in the humours.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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Syn. : enzyme. The active principle obtained from animal and plant life which has the property of causing chemical changes in compounds when allowed to act at or near the body temperature.
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
