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Ferment vs Soak - What's the difference?

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Ferment is a related term of soak.


As verbs the difference between ferment and soak

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 soak is (label) to be saturated with liquid by being immersed in it.

As nouns the difference between ferment and soak

is that ferment is something, such as a yeast or barm, that causes fermentation while soak is an immersion in water etc.

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)

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    soak

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (label) To be saturated with liquid by being immersed in it.
  • * Bible, (w) xxiv. 7
    • Their land shall be soaked with blood.
  • (label) To immerse in liquid to the point of saturation or thorough permeation.
  • (label) To penetrate or permeate by saturation.
  • * Sir (Walter Scott) (1771-1832)
    • The rivulet beneath soaked its way obscurely through wreaths of snow.
  • (label) To allow (especially a liquid) to be absorbed; to take in, receive. (usually + up )
  • * {{quote-book, year=1927, author= F. E. Penny
    • , chapter=4, title= Pulling the Strings , passage=The case was that of a murder. It had an element of mystery about it, however, which was puzzling the authorities. A turban and loincloth soaked in blood had been found; also a staff.}}
  • To drink intemperately or gluttonously.
  • (label) To heat a metal before shaping it.
  • To hold a kiln at a particular temperature for a given period of time.
  • (label) To absorb; to drain.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • An immersion in water etc.
  • * "After the climb, I had a nice long soak in a bath."
  • (slang, British) A drunkard.
  • (Australia) A low-lying depression that fills with water after rain.
  • * 1985 , (Peter Carey), Illywhacker , Faber & Faber 2003, p. 38:
    • I set off early to walk along the Melbourne Road where, one of the punters had told me, there was a soak with plenty of frogs in it.

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