What's the difference between ferment and foment?

Ferment


Definition:

  • (n.) That which causes fermentation, as yeast, barm, or fermenting beer.
  • (n.) Intestine motion; heat; tumult; agitation.
  • (n.) A gentle internal motion of the constituent parts of a fluid; fermentation.
  • (n.) To cause ferment of fermentation in; to set in motion; to excite internal emotion in; to heat.
  • (v. i.) 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.
  • (v. i.) To be agitated or excited by violent emotions.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Thirty-two strains of pectin-fermenting rumen bacteria were isolated from bovine rumen contents in a rumen fluid medium which contained pectin as the only added energy source.
  • (2) We investigated the possible contribution made by oropharyngeal microfloral fermentation of ingested carbohydrate to the generation of the early, transient exhaled breath hydrogen rise seen after carbohydrate ingestion.
  • (3) The cell fermentation culture with a stabilized pH value was better than the culture with the pH value changing spontaneously on saponin content, growth rate and biomass.
  • (4) Forty-five enteropathogenic (enteropathogenic Escherichia coli-like) strains isolated in commercial rabbit farms were subdivided into four biotypes with the help of six carbohydrate fermentation tests, ornithine decarboxylase tests, and motility tests.
  • (5) The different hydrolytic, fermentative and methanogenic activities of these populations ensure the efficient degradation of cell wall constituent in forages (cellulose, hemicellulose, pectin) ingested by ruminants.
  • (6) The addition of sodium bicarbonate to gum containing sorbitol markedly enhanced its capacity to cause and maintain an elevation of interproximal plaque pH previously lowered by exposure to fermentable carbohydrate.
  • (7) The test organisms included 218 gram-negative fermentative clinical isolates.
  • (8) An investigation was done on the action in vitro of two pharmaceutical preparations containing Bi, De Nol and Pepto Bismol, on the fermentative capacity of intestinal bacteria.
  • (9) Acid production by carbohydrate fermentation increases urease production by Klebsiella: pH 4 is the most convenient pH for urease synthesis by these bacteria.
  • (10) These percentages suggest that a better fermentation took place in those silages containing forages.
  • (11) These swine were compared to four groups fed the medicated diet to determine the effect of duration of treatment and degree of animal isolation on the persistence of resistance in lactose-fermenting enteric organisms.
  • (12) These cocultures can be considered as metabolic associations, where the Bacillus produces degradation and fermentation products of pectin, which can be used by Azospirillum species.
  • (13) To show the decisive role of the inoculum parameters in regulation of the specificity of the secondary synthesis, the dynamics of accumulation of certain metabolites forming from glucose along with the main antibiotic and the activity of the key enzymes of the carbohydrate metabolism during the culture growth in the fermentation media were studied.
  • (14) When fermented in preferential media it produces geldanamycin, nigericin, nocardamine, and a libanamycin-like activity.
  • (15) Aerobic growth of even the latter strain was largely fermentative (ca.
  • (16) In trial with adult wethers and weaned lambs the effect of enzymatic preparation Pektofoetidin G3x (mostly pectinase and cellulase) on rumen fermentation was studied.
  • (17) Microbial fermentation and nutrient degradation in the rumen were reduced by saponins.
  • (18) The increase in membrane resistance at low pH allowed S. bovis to maintain its membrane potential and expend less energy when its ability to ferment glucose was impaired.
  • (19) Changes in the fermentative activity of C. albicans as dependent on the incubation time with the antibiotic were studied.
  • (20) The level of lactate dehydrogenase, which is dependent upon ketohexose diphosphate for activity, decreased as fermentation became heterolactic with Streptococcus lactis ML(3).

Foment


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To apply a warm lotion to; to bathe with a cloth or sponge wet with warm water or medicated liquid.
  • (v. t.) To cherish with heat; to foster.
  • (v. t.) To nurse to life or activity; to cherish and promote by excitements; to encourage; to abet; to instigate; -- used often in a bad sense; as, to foment ill humors.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Mr Osborne will nevertheless be happy to foment such feelings in order to encourage Labour divisions.
  • (2) Undoubtedly some of them see the Corbyn surge as a fantastic recruitment opportunity, or the next stage in fomenting the kind of revolution that has never taken place in a single western country.
  • (3) Hillary Clinton has a message for Republicans bemoaning the rise of Donald Trump: “You reap what you sow.” In a speech on Monday, the former secretary of state blamed Republicans’ obstructionism, which she said fomented Trump’s incendiary campaign.
  • (4) Starting in Latin America, Asia and Africa, working with developers whose customers live in the favelas and shanty towns and townships, Mozilla aims to foment revolution which, if it succeeds, will filter back to the west.
  • (5) Manama regularly accuses Tehran of fomenting trouble, but no evidence has come to light of direct Iranian involvement.
  • (6) Authorities have repeatedly accused the exiled Uighur activist Rebiya Kadeer of fomenting the violence.
  • (7) Bahrain accuses Shia Iran of fomenting violence in the kingdom – a charge Tehran denies.
  • (8) Official editorials repeatedly claim that the movement is backed by “hostile foreign forces” intent on fomenting a “colour revolution” to undermine Beijing.
  • (9) The transcripts, obtained by New Matilda and provided to Guardian Australia, show: disenchantment among workers with the viability of settling refugees on Nauru fear among staff of an uncontrollable riot, like the one on Manus – where locals “absolutely beat the shit out of large numbers of people and killed a man” the immigration department asked security staff for “anything you’ve got on Save the Children” the information used to sack 10 Save the Children workers was “probability”, not evidence, and “not something you’d rely on in court” the protests Save the Children Staff were accused of fomenting, “would have happened anyway”, and the department does not know if the staff sacked “were the right 10 people”.
  • (10) 5 Petro Poroshenko The pro-western president of Ukraine is in effect at war with Putin, who last year seized a large chunk of Ukraine – Crimea – and fomented a separatist rebellion in eastern Ukraine.
  • (11) Others facets include power struggles between military and business elites, long-standing tribal rivalries, armed separatism in the south, Iranian-fomented Shia Muslim rebellion in the north , and most significant of all (for the Saudis and Americans), the tightening grip on Yemen of al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula – viewed by Washington as a bigger threat than al-Qaida in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
  • (12) So anybody who now tries to foment trouble is doing it on their own.” John Oloyede, a legal expert and pundit on Nigeria’s Channels television, said: “He is the first Nigerian ruler, head of state, to congratulate somebody who is going to take over from him.
  • (13) Tehran has repeatedly attacked PTV as an arm of the British government, which it accuses of seeking to foment a "velvet revolution".
  • (14) With echoes of the Catholic priest scandal, for decades rabbis have hushed up child sex crimes and fomented a culture in which victims are further victimised and abusers protected.
  • (15) Now Najib is taking no chances as his lieutenants warn that Anwar is fomenting an Arab spring-style uprising – a so-called "hibiscus revolution".
  • (16) The Russian president, who has denied allegations by Kiev and the west that Russia has fomented the rebellion in the east, said he welcomed Poroshenko's call for an end to the bloodshed and liked his approach to settling the crisis but wanted to wait until the Ukrainian leader could deliver it in detail to the nation.
  • (17) Hot fomentation and unsterile materials applied to the cord were the apparent causative factors.
  • (18) But he was surely being modest about his own role in fomenting the chaos and the killing.
  • (19) Other examples could be cited, but the important point is that people everywhere have good reasons to be suspicious when the US government issues warnings that have the effect of fomenting fear and quelling criticism.
  • (20) It’s been part of a noxious brew, with a dangerous anti-politics and anti-MP stereotypes fomented by leave and their media backers mixed in.