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Marinate vs Ruminate - What's the difference?

marinate | ruminate |

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

  • 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.
  • You'll get a better flavour from the chicken if you marinate it first.

    Anagrams

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    ruminate

    English

    Verb

    (ruminat)
  • To chew cud. (Said of ruminants.) Involves regurgitating partially digested food from the rumen.
  • A camel will ruminate just as a cow will.
  • To meditate or reflect.
  • I didn't answer right away because I needed to ruminate first.
  • To meditate or ponder over; to muse on.
  • * Shakespeare
  • What I know / Is ruminated , plotted, and set down.
  • * Dryden
  • Mad with desire, she ruminates her sin.

    Synonyms

    * See also * Or

    Derived terms

    * ruminator

    See also

    * chew the cud

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (botany) Having a hard albumen penetrated by irregular channels filled with softer matter, as the nutmeg and the seeds of the North American papaw.
  • a ruminate endosperm