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verb
noun
- Something, such as a yeast or barm, that causes fermentation.
- a substance capable of bringing about fermentation
- a process in which an agent causes an organic substance to break down into simpler substances; especially, the anaerobic breakdown of sugar into alcohol
- a state of agitation or turbulent change or development
- A catalyst.
- A state of agitation or of turbulent change.
- A gentle internal motion of the constituent parts of a fluid; fermentation.
verb
- cause to undergo fermentation
- (transitive) To cause to ferment.
- (intransitive) To ferment.
- provoke or excite
- have an effect or outcome; often the one desired or expected
- prepare for crops
- arrive at a certain condition through repeated motion
- operate in or through
- to mix into a homogeneous mass
- behave in a certain way when handled
- move in an agitated manner
- move into or onto
- proceed towards a goal or along a path or through an activity
- operate in a certain place, area, or specialty
- cause to work
- cause to happen or to occur as a consequence
- use or manipulate to one's advantage
- exert oneself by doing mental or physical work for a purpose or out of necessity; work
- find the solution to (a problem or question) or understand the meaning of
- proceed along a path
- shape, form, or improve a material
- make something, usually for a specific function
- give a workout to
- cause to operate or function
- go sour or spoil
- gratify and charm, usually in order to influence
- perform as expected when applied
- be employed
- have and exert influence or effect
- (intransitive) To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers.
- To force to work.
- (transitive) To move or progress slowly [with one's way].
- (intransitive, figuratively) To influence.
- Said of one's job title [with as].
- General use, said of either fellow employees or instruments or clients [with with].
- (transitive) To embroider with thread.
- (transitive) To work or operate in, through, or by means of.
- (transitive) To cause to move slowly or with difficulty.
- (ditransitive, poetic) To cause (someone) to feel (something); to do unto somebody (something, whether good or bad).
- (law) To cause to happen or to occur as a consequence.
- (intransitive) To function correctly; to act as intended; to achieve the goal designed for.
- (intransitive) To move in an agitated manner.
- (intransitive) To behave in a certain way when handled
- Said of a company or individual who employs [with for].
- To set into action.
- To exhaust, by working.
- To provoke or excite; to influence.
- To shape, form, or improve a material.
- Said of one's workplace (building), or one's department, or one's trade (sphere of business) [with in or at].
- (slang, transitive) To pull off; to wear, perform, etc. successfully or to advantage.
- (LGBTQ slang, intransitive) To perform with a confident attitude, particularly as a drag queen.
- (intransitive) To move or progress slowly or with difficulty; to proceed with effort.
- (transitive) To work or operate in a certain place, area, or speciality.
- To use or manipulate to one’s advantage.
noun
- the occupation for which you are paid
- a place where work is done
- applying the mind to learning and understanding a subject (especially by reading)
- activity directed toward making or doing something
- a product produced or accomplished through the effort or activity or agency of a person or thing
- (physics) a manifestation of energy; the transfer of energy from one physical system to another expressed as the product of a force and the distance through which it moves a body in the direction of that force
- the total output of a writer or artist (or a substantial part of it)
- (mining) Ore before it is dressed.
- Effort expended on a particular task.
- (physics, more generally) A measure of energy that is usefully extracted from a process: applied productively.
- (uncountable, often in combination) The result of a particular manner of production.
- The place where one is employed.
- (LGBTQ slang) The confident attitude of a drag queen.
- Labour, occupation, job.
- (countable) A fortification.
- (slang, plural only) The equipment needed to inject a drug (syringes, needles, swabs etc.)
- Something on which effort is expended.
- (prison slang) Prison gang violence.
- (uncountable, slang, professional wrestling) The staging of events to appear as real.
- Sustained effort to overcome obstacles and achieve a result.
- (uncountable, often in combination) Something produced using the specified material or tool.
- (physics) A measure of energy expended in moving an object; most commonly, force times distance. No work is done if the object does not move.
- (euphemistic) Cosmetic surgery.
- (countable) A literary, artistic, or intellectual production; a creative work.
- (by extension) One's employer.
verb
noun
verb
noun
- baker's yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae
- Candida, a ubiquitous fungus that can cause various kinds of infections in humans.
- brewer's yeast, certain species of Saccharomyces, principally Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Saccharomyces carlsbergensis.
- An often humid, yellowish froth produced by fermenting malt worts, and used to brew beer, leaven bread, and also used in certain medicines.
- (figuratively) A frothy foam.
- A compressed cake or dried granules of this substance used for mixing with flour to make bread dough rise.
- A single-celled fungus of a wide variety of taxonomic families.
- The resulting infection, candidiasis.
- a commercial leavening agent containing yeast cells; used to raise the dough in making bread and for fermenting beer or whiskey
- any of various single-celled fungi that reproduce asexually by budding or division
noun
adj
- Made rancid by fermentation, etc.
- Tasting or smelling rancid.
- Tasting of acidity.
- (of a person's character) Hostile or unfriendly.
- Containing excess sulfur. (of petroleum)
- Excessively acidic and thus infertile. (of soil)
- (music) Off-pitch, out of tune.
- Unfortunate or unfavorable.
- showing a brooding ill humor
- smelling of fermentation or staleness
- having a sharp biting taste
- inaccurate in pitch
- one of the four basic taste sensations; like the taste of vinegar or lemons
- in an unpalatable state
noun
- (by extension) Any cocktail containing lemon or lime juice.
- A sour or acid substance; whatever produces a painful effect.
- The sensation of a sour taste.
- A drink made with whiskey, lemon or lime juice and sugar.
- The acidic solution used in souring fabric.
- A sweet/candy having a sharply sour taste.
- a cocktail made of a liquor (especially whiskey or gin) mixed with lemon or lime juice and sugar
- the taste experience when vinegar or lemon juice is taken into the mouth
- the property of being acidic
verb
- (intransitive) To become disenchanted.
- (intransitive) To become sour.
- (transitive) To make (soil) cold and unproductive.
- (transitive) To make sour.
- (transitive) To process (fabric) after bleaching, using hydrochloric acid or sulphuric acid to wash out the lime.
- (transitive) To spoil or mar; to make disenchanted.
- To macerate (lime) and render it fit for plaster or mortar.
- go sour or spoil
- make sour or more sour
noun
- Fermentation.
- Method of operation.
- (usually in the plural) Operation; action.
- (countable) A train movement.
- (arithmetic) The incidental or subsidiary calculations performed in solving an overall problem.
- A place where work is carried on.
- (of bodies of water) Becoming full of a vegetable substance.
- a mine or quarry that is being or has been worked
adj
- Enough to allow one to use something.
- That suffices but requires additional work; provisional.
- In paid employment.
- Used in real life; practical.
- That is or are functioning.
- Of or relating to employment.
- serving to permit or facilitate further work or activity
- (of e.g. a machine) performing or capable of performing
- adequate for practical use; especially sufficient in strength or numbers to accomplish something
- actively engaged in paid work
- adopted as a temporary basis for further work
verb
verb
- To stimulate or assist the fermentation of (an alcoholic beverage, dough, etc.).
- Of an alcoholic beverage, dough, etc.: to ferment.
- To take on a state of activity or vigour comparable to life; to be excited or roused.
- (rare) To inspire or stimulate.
- To put (someone or something) in a state of activity or vigour comparable to life; to excite, to rouse.
- (transitive, rare) To apply quicksilver (mercury) to (something); to combine (something) with quicksilver; to quicksilver.
- To grow bright; to brighten.
- (also figuratively) Of a pregnant woman: to first feel the movements of the foetus, or reach the stage of pregnancy at which this takes place; of a foetus: to begin to move.
- To give life; to make alive.
- To inspire or stimulate (an action, a feeling, etc.).
- To make (something) quicker or faster; to hasten, speed up.
- (literary, also figuratively) To give life to (someone or something never alive or once dead); to animate, to resurrect, to revive.
- To come back to life, to receive life.
- (intransitive) To become quicker or faster.
- show signs of life
- give new life or energy to
- make keen or more acute
- move faster
- give life or energy to
noun
- (chiefly Midlands (northern), Northern England, Northern Ireland, Scotland) Synonym of couch grass (“a species of grass, Elymus repens”); also (chiefly in the plural), the underground rhizomes of this, and sometimes other grasses.
- (chiefly Ireland, Northern England) In full quicken tree: the European rowan, rowan, or mountain ash (Sorbus aucuparia).
verb
- (transitive) To make sour, as beer, by causing it to ferment.
- (intransitive) To turn sour; said of beer, etc., when it sours in fermenting.
- (transitive) To confuse or baffle (someone).
- (intransitive) To act slyly or craftily.
- (transitive) To trick, fool or outwit (someone) by cunning or ingenuity.
- (transitive) To repair (boots) with new front upper leather, or to piece the upper fronts of.
- (intransitive) To discolour paper. Fox marks are spots on paper caused by humidity. (See foxing.)
- (transitive) To intoxicate; to stupefy with drink.
- become discolored with, or as if with, mildew spots
- deceive somebody
- be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly
noun
- A hidden radio transmitter, finding which is the goal of radiosport.
- (cartomancy) The fourteenth Lenormand card.
- The gemmeous dragonet, a fish, Callionymus lyra, so called from its yellow color.
- (mechanics) A wedge driven into the split end of a bolt to tighten it.
- Any member of the genus Vulpes; a true fox.
- (uncountable) The fur of a fox.
- (in particular) The red fox, a small carnivore (Vulpes vulpes) with red or silver fur.
- (nautical) A small strand of rope made by twisting several rope-yarns together. Used for seizings, mats, sennits, and gaskets.
- (figurative) A cunning person.
- A fox terrier.
- (Australia) A flying fox.
- (slang, figurative) A person with reddish brown hair, typically a woman.
- (chiefly philosophy) Someone who fuses many different influences and concepts in their philosophy or worldview.
- (slang, figurative) A physically attractive person, typically a woman.
- Other canines that resemble true foxes, of the genera Cerdocyon, Lycalopex, Otocyon, and Urocyon.
- (military, aviation) Air-to-air weapon launched.
- alert carnivorous mammal with pointed muzzle and ears and a bushy tail; most are predators that do not hunt in packs
- a shifty deceptive person
- the grey or reddish-brown fur of a fox
noun
- The production of alcoholic beverages, such as beer, by fermentation; the process of being brewed.
- The quantity of a brew made in a single batch.
- The business or occupation of a brewer.
- The forming of a storm or the gathering of clouds.
- the production of malt beverages (as beer or ale) from malt and hops by grinding and boiling them and fermenting the result with yeast
verb
noun
- A yeast culture, or a medium containing one, used to start a fermentation process.
- a culture containing yeast or bacteria that is used to start the process of fermentation or souring in making butter or cheese or dough
- (golf) A person employed to take new players to the first tee at suitable intervals, and to provide them with caddies and equipment.
- Someone who starts, or who starts something.
- (rail transport) Ellipsis of starter signal.
- An electric motor that starts an internal combustion engine.
- A dog that rouses game.
- (historical, British) A short length of rope formerly used for casual chastisement in the Navy.
- (team sports) A player in the lineup of players that a team fields at the beginning of a game.
- (baseball) A starting pitcher.
- Something with which to begin; a first property, etc.
- A device that initiates the flow of high voltage electricity in a fluorescent lamp.
- The first course of a meal, consisting of a small, usually savoury, dish.
- The person who starts a race by firing a gun or waving a flag.
- any new participant in some activity
- a hand tool consisting of a rotating shaft with parallel handle
- a contestant in a team sport who is in the game at the beginning
- the official who signals the beginning of a race or competition
- an electric motor for starting an engine
- food or drink to stimulate the appetite (usually served before a meal or as the first course)
noun
- A fermentation; hence, an analogous process by which an infectious disease is believed to be developed.
- A zymotic disease.
- a process in which an agent causes an organic substance to break down into simpler substances; especially, the anaerobic breakdown of sugar into alcohol
- (medicine) the development and spread of an infectious disease (especially one caused by a fungus)
adj
noun
- (brewing) A fermenting vat.
- The cryptobiotic state of a tardigrade, when its metabolism is temporarily suspended.
- (Malaysia) A respectful term of address to royalties and certain award recipients
- Synonym of long ton: a unit of mass equal to 2240 pounds, 20 hundredweights of 112 pounds avoirdupois each.
- A part of the ancient Maya Long Count Calendar system which corresponds to 18 winal cycles or 360 days.
- Any shell belonging to Tonna and allied genera.
- (dialectal, UK) a chimney.
- (figurative) Synonym of ton: any extremely or excessively large amount.
- A large cask; an oblong vessel bulging in the middle, like a pipe or puncheon, and girt with hoops; a wine cask. (See a diagram comparing cask sizes.)
- (historical) A traditional unit of liquid measure (from the volume of such a cask) equal to 252 wine gallons or 2 pipes.
- a large cask especially one holding a volume equivalent to 2 butts or 252 gals
verb
noun
- (brewing) The removal of excess foam and carbon dioxide from the fermentation vessel during the active fermentation stage.
- Something that is blown off.
- The exit of a crowd from a circus or carnival act.
- (finance) A period of rapid and usually unsustainable increase (or, sometimes, decrease) in market prices.
- A finale.
- A curt or uninterested dismissal; a failure to respond adequately.
- (crime) The stage in a con game in which one gets rid of the mark after taking his or her money.
- The act of blowing off (steam, water, atmosphere, etc.)
- (UK, slang) A fart.
- The explosive separation of part of a rocket etc in order to prevent its destruction and allow for retrieval
- (colloquial) An outburst of temper or excitement.
- An act of oral sex.
- A class that does not require much effort to pass; a course where one does not have to work.
- A line or pipe for draining a siphon (for cleaning, inspection, etc.)
- A fight that marks the culmination of a long period of antagonism.
- An extra attraction offered to the audience of a sideshow or carnival act, usually hidden behind a curtain and requiring an additional payment; aftershow.
verb
noun
- Something, such as a yeast or barm, that causes fermentation.
- a substance capable of bringing about fermentation
- a process in which an agent causes an organic substance to break down into simpler substances; especially, the anaerobic breakdown of sugar into alcohol
- a state of agitation or turbulent change or development
- A catalyst.
- A state of agitation or of turbulent change.
- A gentle internal motion of the constituent parts of a fluid; fermentation.
noun
noun
- Fermentation.
- Method of operation.
- (usually in the plural) Operation; action.
- (countable) A train movement.
- (arithmetic) The incidental or subsidiary calculations performed in solving an overall problem.
- A place where work is carried on.
- (of bodies of water) Becoming full of a vegetable substance.
- a mine or quarry that is being or has been worked
adj
- Enough to allow one to use something.
- That suffices but requires additional work; provisional.
- In paid employment.
- Used in real life; practical.
- That is or are functioning.
- Of or relating to employment.
- serving to permit or facilitate further work or activity
- (of e.g. a machine) performing or capable of performing
- adequate for practical use; especially sufficient in strength or numbers to accomplish something
- actively engaged in paid work
- adopted as a temporary basis for further work
verb
noun
- The production of alcoholic beverages, such as beer, by fermentation; the process of being brewed.
- The quantity of a brew made in a single batch.
- The business or occupation of a brewer.
- The forming of a storm or the gathering of clouds.
- the production of malt beverages (as beer or ale) from malt and hops by grinding and boiling them and fermenting the result with yeast
verb
noun
- A yeast culture, or a medium containing one, used to start a fermentation process.
- a culture containing yeast or bacteria that is used to start the process of fermentation or souring in making butter or cheese or dough
- (golf) A person employed to take new players to the first tee at suitable intervals, and to provide them with caddies and equipment.
- Someone who starts, or who starts something.
- (rail transport) Ellipsis of starter signal.
- An electric motor that starts an internal combustion engine.
- A dog that rouses game.
- (historical, British) A short length of rope formerly used for casual chastisement in the Navy.
- (team sports) A player in the lineup of players that a team fields at the beginning of a game.
- (baseball) A starting pitcher.
- Something with which to begin; a first property, etc.
- A device that initiates the flow of high voltage electricity in a fluorescent lamp.
- The first course of a meal, consisting of a small, usually savoury, dish.
- The person who starts a race by firing a gun or waving a flag.
- any new participant in some activity
- a hand tool consisting of a rotating shaft with parallel handle
- a contestant in a team sport who is in the game at the beginning
- the official who signals the beginning of a race or competition
- an electric motor for starting an engine
- food or drink to stimulate the appetite (usually served before a meal or as the first course)
noun
- A fermentation; hence, an analogous process by which an infectious disease is believed to be developed.
- A zymotic disease.
- a process in which an agent causes an organic substance to break down into simpler substances; especially, the anaerobic breakdown of sugar into alcohol
- (medicine) the development and spread of an infectious disease (especially one caused by a fungus)
noun
- (brewing) A fermenting vat.
- The cryptobiotic state of a tardigrade, when its metabolism is temporarily suspended.
- (Malaysia) A respectful term of address to royalties and certain award recipients
- Synonym of long ton: a unit of mass equal to 2240 pounds, 20 hundredweights of 112 pounds avoirdupois each.
- A part of the ancient Maya Long Count Calendar system which corresponds to 18 winal cycles or 360 days.
- Any shell belonging to Tonna and allied genera.
- (dialectal, UK) a chimney.
- (figurative) Synonym of ton: any extremely or excessively large amount.
- A large cask; an oblong vessel bulging in the middle, like a pipe or puncheon, and girt with hoops; a wine cask. (See a diagram comparing cask sizes.)
- (historical) A traditional unit of liquid measure (from the volume of such a cask) equal to 252 wine gallons or 2 pipes.
- a large cask especially one holding a volume equivalent to 2 butts or 252 gals
verb
noun
- (brewing) The removal of excess foam and carbon dioxide from the fermentation vessel during the active fermentation stage.
- Something that is blown off.
- The exit of a crowd from a circus or carnival act.
- (finance) A period of rapid and usually unsustainable increase (or, sometimes, decrease) in market prices.
- A finale.
- A curt or uninterested dismissal; a failure to respond adequately.
- (crime) The stage in a con game in which one gets rid of the mark after taking his or her money.
- The act of blowing off (steam, water, atmosphere, etc.)
- (UK, slang) A fart.
- The explosive separation of part of a rocket etc in order to prevent its destruction and allow for retrieval
- (colloquial) An outburst of temper or excitement.
- An act of oral sex.
- A class that does not require much effort to pass; a course where one does not have to work.
- A line or pipe for draining a siphon (for cleaning, inspection, etc.)
- A fight that marks the culmination of a long period of antagonism.
- An extra attraction offered to the audience of a sideshow or carnival act, usually hidden behind a curtain and requiring an additional payment; aftershow.
verb
noun
- Something, such as a yeast or barm, that causes fermentation.
- a substance capable of bringing about fermentation
- a process in which an agent causes an organic substance to break down into simpler substances; especially, the anaerobic breakdown of sugar into alcohol
- a state of agitation or turbulent change or development
- A catalyst.
- A state of agitation or of turbulent change.
- A gentle internal motion of the constituent parts of a fluid; fermentation.
verb
- cause to undergo fermentation
- (transitive) To cause to ferment.
- (intransitive) To ferment.
- provoke or excite
- have an effect or outcome; often the one desired or expected
- prepare for crops
- arrive at a certain condition through repeated motion
- operate in or through
- to mix into a homogeneous mass
- behave in a certain way when handled
- move in an agitated manner
- move into or onto
- proceed towards a goal or along a path or through an activity
- operate in a certain place, area, or specialty
- cause to work
- cause to happen or to occur as a consequence
- use or manipulate to one's advantage
- exert oneself by doing mental or physical work for a purpose or out of necessity; work
- find the solution to (a problem or question) or understand the meaning of
- proceed along a path
- shape, form, or improve a material
- make something, usually for a specific function
- give a workout to
- cause to operate or function
- go sour or spoil
- gratify and charm, usually in order to influence
- perform as expected when applied
- be employed
- have and exert influence or effect
- (intransitive) To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers.
- To force to work.
- (transitive) To move or progress slowly [with one's way].
- (intransitive, figuratively) To influence.
- Said of one's job title [with as].
- General use, said of either fellow employees or instruments or clients [with with].
- (transitive) To embroider with thread.
- (transitive) To work or operate in, through, or by means of.
- (transitive) To cause to move slowly or with difficulty.
- (ditransitive, poetic) To cause (someone) to feel (something); to do unto somebody (something, whether good or bad).
- (law) To cause to happen or to occur as a consequence.
- (intransitive) To function correctly; to act as intended; to achieve the goal designed for.
- (intransitive) To move in an agitated manner.
- (intransitive) To behave in a certain way when handled
- Said of a company or individual who employs [with for].
- To set into action.
- To exhaust, by working.
- To provoke or excite; to influence.
- To shape, form, or improve a material.
- Said of one's workplace (building), or one's department, or one's trade (sphere of business) [with in or at].
- (slang, transitive) To pull off; to wear, perform, etc. successfully or to advantage.
- (LGBTQ slang, intransitive) To perform with a confident attitude, particularly as a drag queen.
- (intransitive) To move or progress slowly or with difficulty; to proceed with effort.
- (transitive) To work or operate in a certain place, area, or speciality.
- To use or manipulate to one’s advantage.
noun
- the occupation for which you are paid
- a place where work is done
- applying the mind to learning and understanding a subject (especially by reading)
- activity directed toward making or doing something
- a product produced or accomplished through the effort or activity or agency of a person or thing
- (physics) a manifestation of energy; the transfer of energy from one physical system to another expressed as the product of a force and the distance through which it moves a body in the direction of that force
- the total output of a writer or artist (or a substantial part of it)
- (mining) Ore before it is dressed.
- Effort expended on a particular task.
- (physics, more generally) A measure of energy that is usefully extracted from a process: applied productively.
- (uncountable, often in combination) The result of a particular manner of production.
- The place where one is employed.
- (LGBTQ slang) The confident attitude of a drag queen.
- Labour, occupation, job.
- (countable) A fortification.
- (slang, plural only) The equipment needed to inject a drug (syringes, needles, swabs etc.)
- Something on which effort is expended.
- (prison slang) Prison gang violence.
- (uncountable, slang, professional wrestling) The staging of events to appear as real.
- Sustained effort to overcome obstacles and achieve a result.
- (uncountable, often in combination) Something produced using the specified material or tool.
- (physics) A measure of energy expended in moving an object; most commonly, force times distance. No work is done if the object does not move.
- (euphemistic) Cosmetic surgery.
- (countable) A literary, artistic, or intellectual production; a creative work.
- (by extension) One's employer.
verb
noun
verb
noun
- baker's yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae
- Candida, a ubiquitous fungus that can cause various kinds of infections in humans.
- brewer's yeast, certain species of Saccharomyces, principally Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Saccharomyces carlsbergensis.
- An often humid, yellowish froth produced by fermenting malt worts, and used to brew beer, leaven bread, and also used in certain medicines.
- (figuratively) A frothy foam.
- A compressed cake or dried granules of this substance used for mixing with flour to make bread dough rise.
- A single-celled fungus of a wide variety of taxonomic families.
- The resulting infection, candidiasis.
- a commercial leavening agent containing yeast cells; used to raise the dough in making bread and for fermenting beer or whiskey
- any of various single-celled fungi that reproduce asexually by budding or division
verb
- To stimulate or assist the fermentation of (an alcoholic beverage, dough, etc.).
- Of an alcoholic beverage, dough, etc.: to ferment.
- To take on a state of activity or vigour comparable to life; to be excited or roused.
- (rare) To inspire or stimulate.
- To put (someone or something) in a state of activity or vigour comparable to life; to excite, to rouse.
- (transitive, rare) To apply quicksilver (mercury) to (something); to combine (something) with quicksilver; to quicksilver.
- To grow bright; to brighten.
- (also figuratively) Of a pregnant woman: to first feel the movements of the foetus, or reach the stage of pregnancy at which this takes place; of a foetus: to begin to move.
- To give life; to make alive.
- To inspire or stimulate (an action, a feeling, etc.).
- To make (something) quicker or faster; to hasten, speed up.
- (literary, also figuratively) To give life to (someone or something never alive or once dead); to animate, to resurrect, to revive.
- To come back to life, to receive life.
- (intransitive) To become quicker or faster.
- show signs of life
- give new life or energy to
- make keen or more acute
- move faster
- give life or energy to
noun
- (chiefly Midlands (northern), Northern England, Northern Ireland, Scotland) Synonym of couch grass (“a species of grass, Elymus repens”); also (chiefly in the plural), the underground rhizomes of this, and sometimes other grasses.
- (chiefly Ireland, Northern England) In full quicken tree: the European rowan, rowan, or mountain ash (Sorbus aucuparia).
verb
- (transitive) To make sour, as beer, by causing it to ferment.
- (intransitive) To turn sour; said of beer, etc., when it sours in fermenting.
- (transitive) To confuse or baffle (someone).
- (intransitive) To act slyly or craftily.
- (transitive) To trick, fool or outwit (someone) by cunning or ingenuity.
- (transitive) To repair (boots) with new front upper leather, or to piece the upper fronts of.
- (intransitive) To discolour paper. Fox marks are spots on paper caused by humidity. (See foxing.)
- (transitive) To intoxicate; to stupefy with drink.
- become discolored with, or as if with, mildew spots
- deceive somebody
- be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly
noun
- A hidden radio transmitter, finding which is the goal of radiosport.
- (cartomancy) The fourteenth Lenormand card.
- The gemmeous dragonet, a fish, Callionymus lyra, so called from its yellow color.
- (mechanics) A wedge driven into the split end of a bolt to tighten it.
- Any member of the genus Vulpes; a true fox.
- (uncountable) The fur of a fox.
- (in particular) The red fox, a small carnivore (Vulpes vulpes) with red or silver fur.
- (nautical) A small strand of rope made by twisting several rope-yarns together. Used for seizings, mats, sennits, and gaskets.
- (figurative) A cunning person.
- A fox terrier.
- (Australia) A flying fox.
- (slang, figurative) A person with reddish brown hair, typically a woman.
- (chiefly philosophy) Someone who fuses many different influences and concepts in their philosophy or worldview.
- (slang, figurative) A physically attractive person, typically a woman.
- Other canines that resemble true foxes, of the genera Cerdocyon, Lycalopex, Otocyon, and Urocyon.
- (military, aviation) Air-to-air weapon launched.
- alert carnivorous mammal with pointed muzzle and ears and a bushy tail; most are predators that do not hunt in packs
- a shifty deceptive person
- the grey or reddish-brown fur of a fox
adj
- Made rancid by fermentation, etc.
- Tasting or smelling rancid.
- Tasting of acidity.
- (of a person's character) Hostile or unfriendly.
- Containing excess sulfur. (of petroleum)
- Excessively acidic and thus infertile. (of soil)
- (music) Off-pitch, out of tune.
- Unfortunate or unfavorable.
- showing a brooding ill humor
- smelling of fermentation or staleness
- having a sharp biting taste
- inaccurate in pitch
- one of the four basic taste sensations; like the taste of vinegar or lemons
- in an unpalatable state
noun
- (by extension) Any cocktail containing lemon or lime juice.
- A sour or acid substance; whatever produces a painful effect.
- The sensation of a sour taste.
- A drink made with whiskey, lemon or lime juice and sugar.
- The acidic solution used in souring fabric.
- A sweet/candy having a sharply sour taste.
- a cocktail made of a liquor (especially whiskey or gin) mixed with lemon or lime juice and sugar
- the taste experience when vinegar or lemon juice is taken into the mouth
- the property of being acidic
verb
- (intransitive) To become disenchanted.
- (intransitive) To become sour.
- (transitive) To make (soil) cold and unproductive.
- (transitive) To make sour.
- (transitive) To process (fabric) after bleaching, using hydrochloric acid or sulphuric acid to wash out the lime.
- (transitive) To spoil or mar; to make disenchanted.
- To macerate (lime) and render it fit for plaster or mortar.
- go sour or spoil
- make sour or more sour