Marinate vs Ruminate - What's the difference?
marinate | ruminate |
To allow a sauce or flavoring mixture to absorb into something; to steep or soak something in a marinade to flavor or prepare it for cooking.
To chew cud. (Said of ruminants.) Involves regurgitating partially digested food from the rumen.
To meditate or reflect.
To meditate or ponder over; to muse on.
* Shakespeare
* Dryden
(botany) Having a hard albumen penetrated by irregular channels filled with softer matter, as the nutmeg and the seeds of the North American papaw.
As verbs the difference between marinate and ruminate
is that marinate is to allow a sauce or flavoring mixture to absorb into something; to steep or soak something in a marinade to flavor or prepare it for cooking while ruminate is to chew cud (said of ruminants) involves regurgitating partially digested food from the rumen.As an adjective ruminate is
(botany) having a hard albumen penetrated by irregular channels filled with softer matter, as the nutmeg and the seeds of the north american papaw.marinate
English
Verb
- You'll get a better flavour from the chicken if you marinate it first.
Anagrams
* ----ruminate
English
Verb
(ruminat)- A camel will ruminate just as a cow will.
- I didn't answer right away because I needed to ruminate first.
- What I know / Is ruminated , plotted, and set down.
- Mad with desire, she ruminates her sin.
Synonyms
* See also * OrDerived terms
* ruminatorSee also
* chew the cudAdjective
(-)- a ruminate endosperm