Ferment vs Simmer - What's the difference?
ferment | simmer |
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.
The state or process of simmering.
To cook or undergo heating slowly at or below the boiling point.
To cause to cook or to cause to undergo heating slowly at or below the boiling point.
As verbs the difference between ferment and simmer
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 simmer is to cook or undergo heating slowly at or below the boiling point.As nouns the difference between ferment and simmer
is that ferment is something, such as a yeast or barm, that causes fermentation while simmer is the state or process of simmering.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
* ----simmer
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Alternative forms
* simber (obsolete)Noun
(-)- The kettle was kept on the simmer .
Verb
- The soup simmered on the stove.
- Simmer the soup for five minutes, then serve.
