| 单词 | foam |
| 释义 | foam (once / 384 pages) nv Foam is a substance with so many tiny air bubbles that it becomes frothy or thick. Your liquid shampoo becomes a foam as you lather it into your wet hair. There's a layer of foam on top of your root beer float, and shaving cream usually comes out of its can in the form of foam. When something froths up this way, you can say that it foams, like turbulent ocean water or a bubble bath that grows as you add water to the tub. The Old English root word is fam, which means "foam," but also "saliva froth" and "sea." WORD FAMILYfoam: foamed, foaming, foams, foamy+/foaming: foamingly/foamy: foamier, foamiest, foamily, foaminess USAGE EXAMPLESOn the next play, Booker T.’s quarterback, who last year suffered a concussion that left him foaming at the mouth, tossed an interception. The New Yorker(Jan 01, 2017) The extra height of the lid accommodates whipped cream or cappuccino foam, and its inner ring reduces “dribble at the rim,” the company’s website says. New York Times(Dec 30, 2016) The foam looks the part, but tends to melt after 15 minutes in the heat. Wall Street Journal(Dec 27, 2016) 1n a mass of small bubbles formed in or on a liquid the beer had a thick head of foam Syn|Hypo|Hyper froth shaving foam toiletry consisting of a liquid preparation containing many small bubbles that soften the beard before shaving headthe foam or froth that accumulates at the top when you pour an effervescent liquid into a container latherthe foam resulting from excessive sweating (as on a horse) lather, soapsuds, sudsthe froth produced by soaps or detergents spumefoam or froth on the sea white water, whitewaterfrothy water as in rapids or waterfalls shaving cream, shaving soaptoiletry consisting of a preparation of soap and fatty acids that forms a rich lather for softening the beard before shaving bubble a hollow globule of gas (e.g., air or carbon dioxide) 2n a lightweight material in cellular form; made by introducing gas bubbles during manufacture Hypo|Hyper Styrofoam a light resilient foam of polystyrene foam rubberspongy rubber; made by introducing air bubbles before vulcanization and used for cushioning or upholstery material, stuff the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object 3v become bubbly or frothy or foaming The river was foaming Syn|Hypo|Hyper effervesce, fizz, form bubbles, froth, sparkle lather form a lather seethefoam as if boiling bubble form, produce, or emit bubbles |
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