Meaning of Foam | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A substance composed of a large collection of bubbles or their solidified remains, especially
   countable, uncountable
2. A substance composed of a large collection of bubbles or their solidified remains, especially:
   countable, uncountable
3. A collection of small bubbles created when the surface of a body of water is moved by tides, wind, etc.
   countable, uncountable
4. A collection of small bubbles formed from bodily fluids such as saliva or sweat.
   countable, uncountable
5. A collection of small bubbles on the surface of a liquid that is heated, fermented or carbonated.
   countable, uncountable
6. A collection of small bubbles created by mixing soap with water.
   countable, uncountable
7. A collection of small bubbles formed by mixing an extinguishing agent with water, used to cover and extinguish fires.
   countable, uncountable
8. A material formed by trapping pockets of gas in a liquid or solid.
   countable, uncountable
9. The sea.
   countable, figuratively, poetic, uncountable
10. Fury, rage, ire.
    countable, uncountable
11. Sneakers.
    countable, in-plural, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Similarly, the biotech giant Cargill has begun manufacturing a polymer from vegetable oils that is used in polyurethane foams, which is found in beddings, furniture and car-seat headrests.”

“Similar studies of rats have employed four different intracranial resorbable, slow sustained release systems—surgical foam, a thermal gel depot, a microcapsule or biodegradable polymer beads.”

“’Tis thou that rigg’st the bark and plough’st the foam,”

“1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner in Lyrical Ballads, London: J. & A. Arch, p. 12, The breezes blew, the white foam flew, / The furrow follow’d free: / We were the first that ever burst / Into that silent Sea.”

“And the heaven became livid with the violence of the tempest […] and the river was tormented into foam […]”

“Many [of the fish-traps] were full of fish that raised foam as they splashed about.”

““Again. Tell it again!” cried Fagin, tightening his grasp on Sikes, and brandishing his other hand aloft as the foam flew from his lips.”

“The horses were flecked with foam and their breathing was noisy.”

“a quart jug with a crown of foam upon it”

“The last of the milk vanished in a swirl of foam and gurgling.”

“It was a very good palm-wine and powerful, for in spite of the palm fruit hung across the mouth of the pot to restrain the lively liquor, white foam rose and spilled over.”

“A slender thread of soft-drink foam traced her upper lip;”

“[…] she concentrated on the foam in the sink, tempering the water.”

“Later we shared a bath with foam up to our ears, like they always discreetly have in films.”

“A foam mat can soften a hard seat.”

“He is in Europe, across the foam.”

“How slowly does sad Time his feathers moue? / Hast thee O fayrest Planet to thy home / Within the Westerne fome:”

“You must dwell beyond the foam, / But I am safe and live at home.”

“But as for me, I'd sooner be A-roaring here at home About the rolling, roaring life Of them that sails the foam.”

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