fermentとは意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (verb):
  • (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /fəˈmɛnt/
    • (General American) IPA^(key): /fɚˈmɛnt/
    • 韻: -ɛnt
  • (noun):
    • (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈfəː.mɛnt/
    • (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈfɚ.mɛnt/

動詞

ferment (三人称単数 現在形 ferments, 現在分詞 fermenting, 過去形および過去分詞形 fermented)

1. To react, using fermentation; especially to produce alcohol by aging or by allowing yeast to act on sugars; to brew.
   • 2020 November 18, Drachinifel, The Salvage of Pearl Harbor Pt 2 - Up She Rises!‎^[1], archived from the original on 22 October 2022, retrieved 30 October 2022, 6:21 from the start:

     The cleanup job would turn out to be possibly second only to body-recovery duty in terms of being a job that nobody wanted to get assigned to. Imagine, for a moment, a thick soup of oil, paper, ink, clothing, raw meat and other fresh provisions, and worse, that had all been left to collect together in semi-warm water, all enclosed in a large metal container that had then been subjected to heating by first fire and then repeated warm Hawaiian days, and then left to ferment for over a month, and then with most of the water drained away and all the remaining solid and semi-liquid mass collecting together in pools and heaps across multiple decks, still in a relatively-enclosed environment.

2. To stir up, agitate, cause unrest or excitement in.
   • 1713, Alexander Pope, “Windsor-Forest. […]”, in The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope, volume I, London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintot, […], published 1717, OCLC 43265629:

     Ye vigorous swains! while youth ferments your blood.

   • 1726, James Thomson, “Winter”, in The Seasons, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, and sold by Thomas Cadell, […], published 1768, OCLC 642619686, lines 10–14, page 165:

     Pleas'd have I wander'd thro' your rough domain; / Trod the pure virgin-ſnows, myſelf as pure; / Heard the winds roar, and the big torrent burſt; / Or ſeen the deep fermenting tempeſt brew'd, / In the grim evening ſky.

派生語

• referment, re-ferment

名詞

ferment (複数形 ferments)

1. Something, such as a yeast or barm, that causes fermentation.
2. A state of agitation or of turbulent change.
   • a. 1729, John Rogers, The Difficulties of Obtaining Salvation

     Subdue and cool the ferment of desire.

   • 14 November, 1770, Junius, letter to the Right Honourable Lord Mansfield

     The nation is in a ferment.

   • 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, 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.

3. A gentle internal motion of the constituent parts of a fluid; fermentation.
   • 1748, James Thomson, “Canto II”, in The Castle of Indolence: […], London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, […], OCLC 54163524, stanza XXX, page 56:

     A Rage of Pleaſure madden'd every Breaſt, / Down to the loweſt Lees the Ferment ran: [...]

4. A catalyst.

参考

• foment

参照

• Douglas Harper (2001–2023), “ferment”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
• ferment in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• Fermentation on Wikipedia.

アナグラム

• fretmen