Ferment
That which causes fermentation, as yeast, barm, or fermenting beer.
Intestine motion; heat; tumult; agitation.
A gentle internal motion of the constituent parts of a fluid; fermentation.
To cause ferment of fermentation in; to set in motion; to excite internal emotion in; to heat.
To undergo fermentation; to be in motion, or to be excited into sensible internal motion, as the constituent oarticles of an animal or vegetable fluid; to work; to effervesce.
To be agitated or excited by violent emotions.
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Ferment Quotations
It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.
Josh Billings
The gastric laboratory uses its protein ferment under an acid reaction.
Ivan Pavlov
If there is dissatisfaction with the status quo, good. If there is ferment, so much the better. If there is restlessness, I am pleased. Then let there be ideas, and hard thought, and hard work. If man feels small, let man make himself bigger.
Hubert H. Humphrey
I haven't given up on working... across the aisle on issues and maybe it'll take an election or two for that to fully ferment, maybe it you know sometimes it takes awhile for people to realize what the best path is.
David Axelrod
I put everything I can into the mulberry of my mind and hope that it is going to ferment and make a decent wine. How that process happens, I'm sorry to tell you I can't describe.
John Hurt
The Chicago Economics Department was in intellectual ferment, although the central issues of the 1930's were very different from those in later times. I had never before encountered minds of that quality at close quarters and they influenced me strongly.
George Stigler
The crisis triggered a fertile period of scientific ferment and revolution in economic theory.
James Tobin
The country is in an extraordinary ferment.
William Hamilton Maxwell
Ferment Translations
ferment in Dutch is fermenteren, werken, gisten
ferment in French is fermentent, effervescence, fermentez, ferment
ferment in Italian is fermento, fermentare
ferment in Spanish is fermentar, fermento
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