fermata
— Noun
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～ (music) a prolongation of unspecified length on a note or chord or rest
ferment
— Verb
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～ be in an agitated or excited state; "The Middle East is fermenting"; "Her mind ferments"
ferment
— Verb
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～ work up into agitation or excitement; "This religion is fermenting Africa"
ferment
— Verb
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～ cause to undergo fermentation; "We ferment the grapes for a very long time to achieve high alcohol content"; "The vintner worked the wine in big oak vats"
ferment
— Verb
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～ go sour or spoil; "The milk has soured"; "The wine worked"; "The cream has turned--we have to throw it out"
ferment
— Noun
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～ a process in which an agent causes an organic substance to break down into simpler substances; especially, the anaerobic breakdown of sugar into alcohol
ferment
— Noun
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～ a state of agitation or turbulent change or development; "the political ferment produced new leadership"; "social unrest"
ferment
— Noun
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～ a substance capable of bringing about fermentation
fermentable
— Adjective
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～ capable of being fermented
fermentation
— Noun
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～ a process in which an agent causes an organic substance to break down into simpler substances; especially, the anaerobic breakdown of sugar into alcohol
fermentation
— Noun
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～ a state of agitation or turbulent change or development; "the political ferment produced new leadership"; "social unrest"
fermentation alcohol
— Noun
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～ the intoxicating agent in fermented and distilled liquors; used pure or denatured as a solvent or in medicines and colognes and cleaning solutions and rocket fuel; proposed as a renewable clean-burning additive to gasoline
fermenting
— Noun
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～ a process in which an agent causes an organic substance to break down into simpler substances; especially, the anaerobic breakdown of sugar into alcohol
fermentologist
— Noun
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～ a specialist in wine making
fermi
— Noun
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～ a metric unit of length equal to one quadrillionth of a meter
Fermi
— Noun
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～ Italian nuclear physicist (in the United States after 1939) who worked on artificial radioactivity caused by neutron bombardment and who headed the group that in 1942 produced the first controlled nuclear reaction (1901-1954)
fermion
— Noun
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～ any particle that obeys Fermi-Dirac statistics and is subject to the Pauli exclusion principle
fermium
— Noun
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～ a radioactive transuranic metallic element produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons
fan fern
— Noun
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～ large Australasian fern with fanlike repeatedly forked fronds; sometimes placed in genus Gleichenia
fern family
— Noun
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～ families of ferns and fern allies