different between ferment vs disturbance
ferment
English
Etymology
From Middle French ferment, from Latin fermentare (“to leaven, ferment”), from fermentum (“substance causing fermentation”), from fervere (“to boil, seethe”). See also fervent.
Pronunciation
- (verb):
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /f??m?nt/
- (General American) IPA(key): /f??m?nt/
- (noun):
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?f??m?nt/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?f?m?nt/
Verb
ferment (third-person singular simple present ferments, present participle fermenting, simple past and past participle fermented)
- To react, using fermentation; especially to produce alcohol by aging or by allowing yeast to act on sugars; to brew.
- To stir up, agitate, cause unrest or excitement in.
Translations
Noun
ferment (plural ferments)
- Something, such as a yeast or barm, that causes fermentation.
- A state of agitation or of turbulent change.
- a. 1729, John Rogers, The Difficulties of Obtaining Salvation
- Subdue and cool the ferment of desire.
- 14 November, 1770, Junius, letter to the Right Honourable Lord Mansfield
- The nation is in a ferment.
- 1919, Ronald Firbank, 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.
- a. 1729, John Rogers, The Difficulties of Obtaining Salvation
- A gentle internal motion of the constituent parts of a fluid; fermentation.
- A catalyst.
Translations
See also
- foment
References
- Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “ferment”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
- ferment in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- Fermentation on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- fretmen
French
Verb
ferment
- third-person plural present indicative of fermer
- third-person plural present subjunctive of fermer
Romanian
Etymology
From French ferment, from Latin fermentum.
Noun
ferment m (plural fermen?i)
- ferment
Declension
ferment From the web:
- what fermentation
- what fermentation does yeast use
- what fermentation makes bread
- what fermentation occurs in animals
- what ferments wine
- what fermentation occurs in yeast
- what fermented foods are good for you
- what ferments kimchi
disturbance
English
Alternative forms
- disturbaunce (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English disturbaunce, from Old French destorbance, destourbance, from destourber (“disturb”), from Latin disturb?. Surface analysis disturb +? -ance.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /d??st??bn?s/
- (General American) IPA(key): /d??st?bn?s/
- Hyphenation: dis?tur?bance
Noun
disturbance (countable and uncountable, plural disturbances)
- The act of disturbing, being disturbed.
- Something that disturbs.
- That guy causes a lot of trouble, you know, he's such a disturbance.
- A noisy commotion that causes a hubbub or interruption.
- An interruption of that which is normal or regular.
- (psychology) A serious mental imbalance or illness.
Antonyms
- calmness
Translations
Anagrams
- bedcurtains
disturbance From the web:
- what disturbances cause earthquakes
- what disturbances cause primary succession
- what disturbances cause secondary succession
- what disturbance led to feudalism establishment
- what disturbances lead to primary succession
- which cause earthquakes
- what can trigger earthquakes
- what is the most common cause of earthquakes
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