Synonyms for fermentation
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : fur-men-tey-shuh n |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˌfɜr mɛnˈteɪ ʃən |
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Définition of fermentation
Origin :- late 14c., in alchemy, with a broad sense; modern scientific sense is from c.1600; from Late Latin fermentationem (nominative fermentatio), noun of action from fermentare (see ferment (v.)). Figurative use attested from 1650s.
- noun effervescence
- During the fermentation, stir the matter from time to time, and press it down with the hand, that it may be perfectly soaked.
- Extract from : « The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, » by Mary Eaton
- These made unleavened bread, and were foes to the death to fermentation.
- Extract from : « Essays, Second Series » by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The second stage is the preparation of the grapes for fermentation.
- Extract from : « Manual of American Grape-Growing » by U. P. Hedrick
- Again, I spoke of the produce of fermentation as "spirit of wine."
- Extract from : « Yeast » by Thomas H. Huxley
- Love is perhaps a fermentation of the molecules of the imagination.
- Extract from : « The Paliser case » by Edgar Saltus
- A common example of fermentation is the change of cider into vinegar.
- Extract from : « Agriculture for Beginners » by Charles William Burkett
- Or, to fermentation yielded, producing the spirited metheglin.
- Extract from : « Man of Uz, and Other Poems » by Lydia Howard Sigourney
- I am provoked into a fermentation, as my Lady Froth says; was ever the like read of in story?
- Extract from : « The Comedies of William Congreve » by William Congreve
- That is gas,—gas manufactured by the process of fermentation.
- Extract from : « The Eugenic Marriage, Vol 2 (of 4) » by W. Grant Hague
- When, moreover, the cells were destroyed by bruising, no fermentation ensued.
- Extract from : « Fragments of science, V. 1-2 » by John Tyndall
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