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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
flutter
English
Etymology
From Middle English floteren, from Old English floterian, flotorian (“to float about, flutter”), from Proto-Germanic *flutr?n?, frequentative of Proto-Germanic *flut?n? (“to float”), equivalent to float +? -er (frequentative suffix). Cognate with Low German fluttern, fluddern (“to flutter”), German flittern, Dutch fladderen; also Albanian flutur (“butterfly”). More at float.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?fl?t?/, [?fl???]
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?fl?t?/
- Rhymes: -?t?(?)
Verb
flutter (third-person singular simple present flutters, present participle fluttering, simple past and past participle fluttered)
- (intransitive) To flap or wave quickly but irregularly.
- (intransitive) Of a winged animal: to flap the wings without flying; to fly with a light flapping of the wings.
- (intransitive, aerodynamics) To undergo divergent oscillations (potentially to the point of causing structural failure) due to a positive feedback loop between elastic deformation and aerodynamic forces.
- (transitive) To cause something to flap.
- (transitive) To drive into disorder; to throw into confusion.
- (intransitive) To be in a state of agitation or uncertainty.
- (intransitive, obsolete) To be frivolous.
Translations
Noun
flutter (countable and uncountable, plural flutters)
- The act of fluttering; quick and irregular motion.
- c. 1838, Richard Monckton Milnes, The Forest
- the chirp and flutter of some single bird
- c. 1838, Richard Monckton Milnes, The Forest
- A state of agitation.
- flutter of spirits
- 1900, Henry James, The Soft Side The Third Person Chapter 3
- Their visitor was an issue - at least to the imagination, and they arrived finally, under provocation, at intensities of flutter in which they felt themselves so compromised by his hoverings that they could only consider with relief the fact of nobody's knowing.
- An abnormal rapid pulsation of the heart.
- (uncountable, aerodynamics) An extremely dangerous divergent oscillation caused by a positive feedback loop between the elastic deformation of an object and the aerodynamic forces acting on it, potentially resulting in structural failure.
- (Britain) A small bet or risky investment.
- 30 July, 2009, Eurosport, Gray Matter: How will Schu do?
- So with his victory odds currently at 14/1 or 3/1 for the podium, he's still most certainly well worth a flutter […]
- 30 July, 2009, Eurosport, Gray Matter: How will Schu do?
- A hasty game of cards or similar.
- (audio, electronics) The rapid variation of signal parameters, such as amplitude, phase, and frequency.
Derived terms
- aflutter
- flutter in the dovecote
- flutterby
- fluttersome
- fluttery
Translations
flutter From the web:
- what flutters
- what flutter means
- what fluttering in the chest
- what flutters feel like
- what flutter can't do
- what flutter can do
- what flutter clean does
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