Ferment vs Forment - What's the difference?
ferment | forment |
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.
As verbs the difference between ferment and forment
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 forment is misspelling of lang=en.As a noun ferment
is something, such as a yeast or barm, that causes fermentation.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.