Ferment vs Maelstrom - What's the difference?
ferment | maelstrom |
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 large and violent whirlpool.
* 2001 — , Artemis Fowl , p 212
Any violent or turbulent situation.
As nouns the difference between ferment and maelstrom
is that ferment is something, such as a yeast or barm, that causes fermentation while maelstrom is maelstrom.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
* ----maelstrom
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Alternative forms
*Noun
(en noun)- A hulking shape burst through the doorway and hurtled down the corridor, leaving a maelstrom of air currents in his wake.