brew

Signification (Anglais)

Verb

1. To make tea or coffee by mixing tea leaves or coffee beans with hot water.
2. To heat wine, infusing it with spices; to mull.
3. To make a hot soup by combining ingredients and boiling them in water.
4. To make beer by steeping a starch source in water and fermenting the resulting sweet liquid with yeast.
5. To foment or prepare, as by brewing
6. To attend to the business, or go through the processes, of brewing or making beer.
7. To be in a state of preparation; to be mixing, forming, or gathering.
8. (obsolete) To boil or seethe; to cook.

Noun

1. (slang) The mixture formed by brewing; that which is brewed; a brewage, such as tea or beer.
2. (slang) The mixture formed by brewing; that which is brewed; a brewage, such as tea or beer.
3. The mixture formed by brewing; that which is brewed; a brewage, such as tea or beer.

Noun

An overhanging hill or cliff.

Concepts

brasser

cuire

infuser

fermenter

faire infuser

faire mûrir

causer

faire naître

comploter

faire une infusion

se tramer

couver

gronder

créer

provoquer

fomenter

occasionner

brassin

faire

faire bière

breuvage

cuisiner

faire bouillir

préparer

devenir

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/bɹuː/

Étymologie (Anglais)

From Middle English brewen, from Old English brēowan, from Proto-West Germanic *breuwan, from Proto-Germanic *brewwaną, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrewh₁-. Doublet of burn.
Cognate with
Dutch brouwen, German brauen, Swedish brygga, Norwegian Bokmål brygge; also Ancient Greek φρέαρ (phréar, “well”), Latin fervēre (“to be hot; to burn; to boil”), Old Irish bruth (“violent, boiling heat”), Sanskrit भुर्वन् (bhurván, “motion of water”). It may be related to English barley

Phrases

You cannot brew tea in a cold pot .

Vous ne pouvez pas préparer du thé dans un pot froid.