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Ferment vs Inflammation - What's the difference?

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Ferment is a synonym of inflammation.


As nouns the difference between ferment and inflammation

is that ferment is something, such as a yeast or barm, that causes fermentation while inflammation is the act of inflaming]], [[kindle|kindling, or setting on fire; also, the state of being inflamed.

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)
  • 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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    inflammation

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia inflammation)
  • The act of inflaming]], [[kindle, kindling, or setting on fire; also, the state of being inflamed.
  • (symptom) A condition of any part of the body, consisting of congestion of the blood vessels, with obstruction of the blood current, and growth of morbid tissue. It is manifested outwardly by redness and swelling, attended with heat and pain.
  • Violent excitement; heat; passion; animosity; turbulence; as an inflammation of the mind, of the body politic, or of parties.

    • Hyponyms

    * See also

    Related terms

    * infection