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Fermenting   /fərmˈɛntɪŋ/   Listen
Fermenting

noun
1.
A process in which an agent causes an organic substance to break down into simpler substances; especially, the anaerobic breakdown of sugar into alcohol.  Synonyms: ferment, fermentation, zymolysis, zymosis.


Ferment

verb
(past & past part. fermented; pres. part. fermenting)
1.
Be in an agitated or excited state.  "Her mind ferments"
2.
Work up into agitation or excitement.
3.
Cause to undergo fermentation.  Synonym: work.  "The vintner worked the wine in big oak vats"
4.
Go sour or spoil.  Synonyms: sour, turn, work.  "The wine worked" , "The cream has turned--we have to throw it out"



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"Fermenting" Quotes from Famous Books



... be seen from the above that brewing consists of seven distinct main processes, which may be classed as follows: (1) Grinding; (2) Mashing; (3) Boiling; (4) Cooling; (5) Fermenting; (6) Cleansing; (7) ...
— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 - "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" • Various
... their various natures, of which they themselves were ignorant, nor their rivalries, which would some day bring them into collision. Was not the success of one the success of all the others? Their youth was fermenting, they were brimming over with mutual devotion; they indulged anew in their everlasting dream of gathering into a phalanx to conquer the world, each contributing his individual effort; this one helping that one forward, ...
— His Masterpiece • Emile Zola
... belonged to one Tobasco, a Russian detective, stationed in New York, and he knew his business thoroughly, having been intrusted with the duty of watching the Nihilists who were fermenting plans against the empire on this side ...
— The Boy Nihilist - or, Young America in Russia • Allan Arnold
... a coldframe in being provided with bottom heat. This heat is ordinarily supplied by means of fermenting manure, but it may be obtained from other fermenting material, as tanbark or leaves, or from artificial heat, as flues, steam pipes, or ...
— Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) • L. H. Bailey
... little at this great proposal; did not quite reject it; came across, with it and other fine projects and impatiences fermenting in his head, to London, there to see and consider. It was in the months when the Torrijos enterprise was in the birth-throes; crying wildly for capital, of all things. Boyd naturally spoke of his projects to Sterling,—of ...
— The Life of John Sterling • Thomas Carlyle


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