| 单词 | froth |
| 释义 | froth (once / 1340 pages) nv Froth is the gathering of small bubbles at the top of a drink, like the fizzy froth on the top of your root beer float. There's usually froth on the surface of soda, beer, and even coffee drinks like cappuccinos and lattes, which are topped with milk froth. You can use the word froth as a verb as well, to mean "fizz or foam up." Liquid soap might froth in your hands as you wash them, for example, and making candy sometimes involves cooking sugar syrup until it starts to froth. The word most likely comes from an Old Norse root, froða, or "froth." WORD FAMILYfroth: frothed, frothing, froths, frothy+/frothing: frothingly/frothy: frothily, frothiness USAGE EXAMPLESThe camera zooms in, revealing a mound of soapy froth. New York Times(Jan 06, 2016) The source for this froth was the mineral-rich springs a mere mile north of Green Lake. Seattle Times(Dec 01, 2016) While fundamentals already were improving for some of them, spending pledges from both presidential candidates created froth. Wall Street Journal(Nov 30, 2016) 1n a mass of small bubbles formed in or on a liquid Syn|Hypo|Hyper foam 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) 2v become bubbly or frothy or foaming The boiling soup was frothing Syn|Hypo|Hyper effervesce, fizz, foam, form bubbles, sparkle lather form a lather seethefoam as if boiling bubble form, produce, or emit bubbles 3v exude or expel foam the angry man was frothing at the mouth Hypo|Hyper lather exude sweat or lather exudate, exude, ooze, ooze out, transude release (a liquid) in drops or small quantities 4v make froth or foam and become bubbly Syn|Hyper spume, suds create, make make or cause to be or to become |
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