different between brew vs infusion

English

Etymology 1

Middle English brewen, from Old English br?owan, from Proto-West Germanic *breuwan, from Proto-Germanic *brewwan?, from Proto-Indo-European *b?rewh?-.

Cognate withDutch brouwen, German brauen, Swedish brygga, Norwegian Bokmål brygge; also Ancient Greek ????? (phréar, “well”), Latin ferv?re (“to be hot; to burn; to boil”), Old Irish bruth (“violent, boiling heat”), Sanskrit ??????? (bhurván, “motion of water”). It may be related to English barley

Pronunciation

• enPR: bro?o, IPA^(key): /b?u?/
• • (Wales) IPA^(key): /b????/
• Rhymes: -u?

Verb

brew (third-person singular simple present brews, present participle brewing, simple past and past participle brewed)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To make tea or coffee by mixing tea leaves or coffee beans with hot water.
   • 1935, Christopher Isherwood, Mr Norris Changes Trains, Penguin, 1942, Chapter Eleven, p. 113,^[1]

     Elderly people sat indoors, in the damp. shabby houses, brewing malt coffee or weak tea and talking without animation […]

2. (transitive) To heat wine, infusing it with spices; to mull.
   • c. 1600, William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Act III, Scene 5,^[2]

     Go, brew me a pottle of sack finely.

3. (transitive, intransitive) To make a hot soup by combining ingredients and boiling them in water.
4. (transitive, intransitive) To make beer by steeping a starch source in water and fermenting the resulting sweet liquid with yeast.
5. (transitive) To foment or prepare, as by brewing

   Synonyms: contrive, plot, hatch

   • 1634, John Milton, Comus, in Poems of Mr. John Milton, London: Humphrey Mosely, 1645, p. 106,^[3]

     Hence with thy brew’d inchantments, foul deceiver […]

6. (intransitive) To attend to the business, or go through the processes, of brewing or making beer.
   • c. 1600, William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Act I, Scene 4,^[4]

     I wash, wring, brew, bake, scour, dress meat and drink […]

7. (intransitive, of an unwelcome event) To be in a state of preparation; to be mixing, forming, or gathering.
   • c. 1596, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act II, Scene 5,^[5]

     There is some ill a-brewing towards my rest,
8. (transitive, obsolete) To boil or seethe; to cook.

Translations

Derived terms

• brewage
• brewer
• brewery
• brewhouse

Noun

brew (plural brews)

2. The mixture formed by brewing; that which is brewed; a brewage, such as tea or beer.
   1. (slang) A single serving (can, bottle, etc.) of beer.
   2. (Britain, slang) A cup of tea.

Translations

Etymology 2

Middle English brewe (“eyebrow”), from Old English bru (“eyebrow”). Doublet of brow

Noun

brew (plural brews)

1. (Britain, dialect) An overhanging hill or cliff.

Translations

Anagrams

• BWER

Middle English

Verb

brew

1. Alternative form of brewen

Polish

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *bry, from Proto-Indo-European *h?b?rúHs

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /br?f/

Noun

brew f

1. eyebrow

Declension

Further reading

• brew in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• brew in Polish dictionaries at PWN

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French infusion, from Latin infusio, infusionem (“a pouring into, a wetting, a dyeing, a flow”), from infundo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?fju???n/
• Rhymes: -u???n

Noun

infusion (countable and uncountable, plural infusions)

1. A product consisting of a liquid which has had other ingredients steeped in it to extract useful qualities.

   An extract of rooibos and chamomile makes a refreshing infusion.

2. The act of steeping or soaking a substance in liquid so as to extract medicinal or herbal qualities.
3. The act of installing a quality into a person.
   • 1602 : William Shakespeare, Hamlet, act V scene 1

     [...] but in the verity of extolment / I take him to be a soul of great article and his infusion / of such dearth and rareness as, to make true diction of / him, his semblable in his mirror, and who else would / trace him, his umbrage, nothing more.

4. (obsolete) The act of dipping into a fluid.
5. (medicine) The administration of liquid substances directly into a vein for medical purposes; perfusion.

Related terms

• infuse

Translations

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin inf?si?, inf?si?nem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.fy.zj??/

Noun

infusion f (plural infusions)

1. infusion (liquid product which has had other ingredients steeped in it to extract useful qualities)

Synonyms

• (liquid product): décoction, tisane

Further reading

• “infusion” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).