Ferment vs Commotion - What's the difference?
ferment | commotion | Synonyms |
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.
* Alexander Pope
Something, such as a yeast or barm, that causes fermentation.
A state of agitation or of turbulent change.
* Rogers
* Walpole
A gentle internal motion of the constituent parts of a fluid; fermentation.
* Thomson
A catalyst.
A state of turbulent motion.
An agitated disturbance or a hubbub.
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As nouns the difference between ferment and commotion
is that ferment is something, such as a yeast or barm, that causes fermentation while commotion is a state of turbulent motion.As a verb ferment
is to react, using fermentation; especially to produce alcohol by aging or by allowing yeast to act on sugars; to brew.ferment
English
Verb
(en verb)- Ye vigorous swains! while youth ferments your blood.
Noun
(en noun)- Subdue and cool the ferment of desire.
- The nation is in a ferment .
- Down to the lowest lees the ferment ran.
Quotations
; state of agitation * 1919, , 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.See also
* fomentReferences
* * * (Fermentation)Anagrams
* ----commotion
English
Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=When Timothy and Julia hurried up the staircase to the bedroom floor, where a considerable commotion was taking place, Tim took Barry Leach with him. He had him gripped firmly by the arm, since he felt it was not safe to let him loose, and he had no immediate idea what to do with him.}}