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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
pepper
English
Alternative forms
- piper (archaic)
Etymology
From Middle English peper, piper, from Old English piper, from Proto-West Germanic *piper, from Latin piper, from an Indo-Aryan source; compare Sanskrit ??????? (pippali, “long pepper”). The name was given to the capsicum fruit because of its unusual spicy taste, not unlike the European spice.
Cognate with Scots pepar, Saterland Frisian Pieper, West Frisian piper, Dutch peper, German Low German Peper, German Pfeffer, Danish peber, Swedish peppar, Icelandic pipar. Doublet of peepul.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?p?p?/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?p?p?/
- Rhymes: -?p?(?)
Noun
pepper (countable and uncountable, plural peppers)
- A plant of the family Piperaceae.
- (uncountable) A spice prepared from the fermented, dried, unripe berries of this plant.
- (Britain, US, Ireland and Canada) A bell pepper, a fruit of the capsicum plant: red, green, yellow or white, hollow and containing seeds, and in very spicy and mild varieties.
- (baseball) A game used by baseball players to warm up where fielders standing close to a batter rapidly return the batted ball to be hit again
- Some ballparks have signs saying "No pepper games".
- (cryptography) A randomly-generated value that is added to another value (such as a password) prior to hashing. Unlike a salt, a new one is generated for each value and it is held separately from the value.
Synonyms
- (fruit of the capsicum):
- (spicy): chili, chili pepper, chilli, hot pepper
- (mild) bell pepper, paprika, sweet pepper, capsicum
Derived terms
Descendants
- Tok Pisin: pepa
- ? Hawaiian: pepa
- ? Marshallese: pepa
Translations
Verb
pepper (third-person singular simple present peppers, present participle peppering, simple past and past participle peppered)
- (transitive) To add pepper to.
- (transitive) To strike with something made up of small particles.
- (transitive) To cover with lots of (something made up of small things).
- (transitive) To add (something) at frequent intervals.
- (transitive, slang) To beat or thrash.
Derived terms
- bepepper
- peppering
Related terms
Translations
See also
- salt
- Wikipedia article on pepper
- Wikipedia article on peppers (fruits of the capsicum plant)
Middle English
Noun
pepper
- Alternative form of peper
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Old Norse piparr
Pronunciation
Noun
pepper m (definite singular pepperen)
- pepper (spice)
Derived terms
- pepperkake
- peppermynte
See also
- pepar (Nynorsk)
References
- “pepper” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
pepper From the web:
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- what peppers are sweet
- what pepper is the hottest
- what peppers are in pepper jack cheese
- what peppermint oil good for
- what peppers are in sriracha
- what pepper is in diablo sauce
- what pepper can kill you
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