different between ferment vs soak

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)

1. To react, using fermentation; especially to produce alcohol by aging or by allowing yeast to act on sugars; to brew.
2. To stir up, agitate, cause unrest or excitement in.

Translations

Noun

ferment (plural ferments)

1. Something, such as a yeast or barm, that causes fermentation.
2. 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.

3. A gentle internal motion of the constituent parts of a fluid; fermentation.
4. 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

1. third-person plural present indicative of fermer
2. third-person plural present subjunctive of fermer

Romanian

Etymology

From French ferment, from Latin fermentum.

Noun

ferment m (plural fermen?i)

1. ferment

Declension

English

Etymology

From Middle English soken, from Old English socian (“to soak, steep”, literally “to cause to suck (up)”), from Proto-Germanic *suk?n? (“to soak”), causative of Proto-Germanic *s?kan? (“to suck”). Cognate with Middle Dutch soken (“to cause to suck”). More at suck.

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: s?k, IPA^(key): /s??k/
• Rhymes: -??k
• (US) enPR: s?k, IPA^(key): /so?k/
• Rhymes: -o?k
• Homophone: soke

Verb

soak (third-person singular simple present soaks, present participle soaking, simple past and past participle soaked)

1. (intransitive) To be saturated with liquid by being immersed in it.
2. (transitive) To immerse in liquid to the point of saturation or thorough permeation.

3. (intransitive) To penetrate or permeate by saturation.
4. (transitive) To allow (especially a liquid) to be absorbed; to take in, receive. (usually + up)
5. (figuratively, transitive) To take money from.
   • 1928, Upton Sinclair, Boston

     It's a blackmail ring, and the district attorneys get a share of the loot. […] Well, they got him in the same kind of jam, and soaked him to the tune of three hundred and eighty-six thousand.

6. (slang, dated) To drink intemperately or gluttonously.
7. (metallurgy, transitive) To heat (a metal) before shaping it.
8. (ceramics, transitive) To hold a kiln at a particular temperature for a given period of time.

9. (figuratively, transitive) To absorb; to drain.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Sir H. Wotton to this entry?)

Translations

Verb

soak (third-person singular simple present soaks, present participle soaking, simple past and past participle soaked)

1. (transitive) (slang, boxing) To hit or strike.

Noun

soak (plural soaks)

1. An immersion in water etc.

   After the strenuous climb, I had a nice long soak in a bath.

2. (slang, Britain) A drunkard.
3. (slang) A carouse; a drinking session.
4. (Australia) A low-lying depression that fills with water after rain.
   • 1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber & Faber 2003, p. 38:

     I set off early to walk along the Melbourne Road where, one of the punters had told me, there was a soak with plenty of frogs in it.

   • 1996, Doris Pinkington, Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence, in Heiss & Minter, Macquarie PEN Anthology of Aboriginal Literature, Allen & Unwin 2008, p. 170:

     Molly and Daisy finished their breakfast and decided to take all their dirty clothes and wash them in the soak further down the river.

Synonyms

• (drunkard): alcoholic, souse, suck-pint; See also Thesaurus:drunkard

Translations

Anagrams

• Kosa, koas, oaks, okas

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch zwak (“weak”), from Middle Dutch swac, from Old Dutch *swak, from Proto-West Germanic *swak.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?soa?]
• Hyphenation: so?ak

Adjective

soak

1. (colloquial) weak.

   Synonym: lemah

Further reading

• “soak” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.