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Ferment vs Fermentable - What's the difference?

ferment | fermentable |

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.

As a noun ferment

is something, such as a yeast or barm, that causes fermentation.

As an adjective fermentable is

able to ferment or be fermented.

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

    * ----

    fermentable

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Able to ferment or be fermented
  • * {{quote-news, year=2009, date=September 9, author=Joyce Wadler, title=Chew It Up, Spit It Out, Then Brew. Cheers!, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=“You need to convert the starches in the corn into fermentable sugars,” the always entertaining Mr. Calagione said by phone from his headquarters in Rehoboth Beach. }}