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Ferment vs Bustle - What's the difference?

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Ferment is a related term of bustle.


As verbs the difference between ferment and bustle

is that ferment is to react, using fermentation; especially to produce alcohol by aging or by allowing yeast to act on sugars; to brew while bustle is to move busily and energetically with fussiness (often followed by about ).

As nouns the difference between ferment and bustle

is that ferment is something, such as a yeast or barm, that causes fermentation while bustle is an excited activity; a stir.

ferment

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • 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
    • Ye vigorous swains! while youth ferments your blood.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Something, such as a yeast or barm, that causes fermentation.
  • A state of agitation or of turbulent change.
  • * Rogers
    • Subdue and cool the ferment of desire.
  • * Walpole
    • The nation is in a ferment .
  • A gentle internal motion of the constituent parts of a fluid; fermentation.
  • * Thomson
    • Down to the lowest lees the ferment ran.
  • A catalyst.

    • 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

    * foment

    References

    * * * (Fermentation)

    Anagrams

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    bustle

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An excited activity; a stir.
  • * 1748 . David Hume. Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. § 34.
    • we are, perhaps, all the while flattering our natural indolence, which, hating the bustle of the world, and drudgery of business seeks a pretence of reason to give itself a full and uncontrolled indulgence
  • (computing) A cover to protect and hide the back panel of a computer or other office machine.
  • (historical) A frame worn underneath a woman's skirt, typically only protruding from the rear as opposed to the earlier more circular hoops.

    • Derived terms

    * hustle and bustle

    Verb

  • To move busily and energetically with fussiness (often followed by about ).
    • The commuters bustled about inside the train station.
  • *, II.3.6:
    • I was once so mad to bussell abroad, and seek about for preferment […].
  • To teem or abound (usually followed by with''); to exhibit an energetic and active abundance (of a thing). ''See also bustle with .
    • The train station was bustling with commuters.

    Synonyms

    * (to move busily) flit, hustle, scamper, scurry * (to exhibit an energetic abundance) abound, brim, bristle, burst, crawl, swell, teem

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