Foam

Definition: Foam

Foam

Noun

1. A mass of small bubbles formed in or on a liquid.

2. A lightweight material in cellular form; made by introducing gas bubbles during manufacture.

Verb

1. Of liquids; "The boiling soup was frothing".

2. Foam as if boiling; "a seething liquid".

3. Make froth, become bubbly; "The river foamed".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "foam" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Bible

Chemistry

Energy

Food & Agriculture

Physics

Public Administration

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Foam

Agitation

Ferment, effervesce, foam; boil, boil over; bubble up; simmer.

Bubble

Verb: bubble, boil, foam, froth, mantle, sparkle, guggle, gurgle; effervesce, ferment, fizzle.

Noun: bubble, foam, froth, head, spume, lather, suds, spray, surf, yeast, barm, spindrift.

Excitability

Lose one's temper; break out, burst out, fly out; go off, fly off, fly off at a tangent, fly off the handle, lose one's cool; explode, flare up, flame up, fire up, burst into a flame, take fire, fire, burn; boil, boil over; foam, fume, rage, rave, rant, tear; go wild, run wild, run mad, go into hysterics; run riot, run amuck; battre la campagne, faire le diable a quatre, play the deuce.

Excitation

Be excited; Adjective: flush up, flare up; catch the infection; thrill; (feel); mantle; work oneself up; seethe, boil, simmer, foam, fume, flame, rage, rave; run mad; (passion).

Insulation, Fire extinction

Wet blanket; fire extinguisher, soda and acid extinguisher, dry chemical extinguisher, CO-two extinguisher, carbon tetrachloride, foam; sprinklers, automatic sprinkler system; fire bucket, sand bucket.

Resentment

Chafe, mantle, fume, kindle, fly out, take fire; boil, boil over; boil with indignation, boil with rage; rage, storm, foam, vent one's rage, vent one's spleen; lose one's temper, stand on one's hind legs, stamp the foot, stamp with rage, quiver with rage, swell with rage, foam with rage; burst with anger; raise Cain.

Violence

Explode, make a row, kick up a row; boil, boil over; fume, foam, come on like a lion, bluster, rage, roar, fly off the handle, go bananas, go ape, blow one's top, blow one's cool, flip one's lid, hit the ceiling, hit the roof; fly into a rage (anger).

Crosswords: Foam

Now where's my foam cowboy hat and airhorn (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

One false move and you'll have wall to wall foam rubber (All in the Family; writing credit: Johnny Speight; Norman Lear)

Foam Sweet Foam (1925)

Red Foam (1920)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• The 2003-2008 World Outlook for Men’s Foam Shaving Preparations (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• 50 More Ways To Use Your Noodle: Loads of land and water games with foam noodle toys (reference)

• Pokemon Standees 2: 20 3-D Foam Pokemon Figures (reference)

• The Fantastic Foam Book (reference)

• The Foam Book : An Easy Guide to Building Polyfoam Puppets (reference)

• Therapeutic Exercises Using Foam Rollers (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• 3D Wizardry, Design in Papier Mache, Plaster and Foam (reference)

• Foam Roll Exercises (reference)

• Tying Foam Flies with Skip Morris (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Adventures in Foam (reference)

• Foam & The Mesh (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Mac5 Headphones for Computerslight Weight Foam Cushions (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• Dirt Devil Foam Replacement Filter for Wet/Dry Vac (reference)

• Igia AT956 Epil Stop & Spray Foam for Men with Bonus Shaver (reference)

• Macklanburg-Duncan 02113 Low Density Foam Tape Open Cell (reference)

• Shopvac 905-85-1 Foam Filter Sleeves (reference)

• Superior 19-300 Super Light Rubber Foam Knee Pads (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Seaweed, foam, and a rocky beach. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Foam from breaking surf washes gently against the shore. Credit: Fisheries.

Products of twin-screw processing include fluid glycosides (1) for making rigid polyurethane foam blocks (2), starchencapsulated herbicide strands (3) that can be made into granules (4), semiflexible polyurethane foam with starch filler (5), cationic starch (6), and the famous superabsorbent starch, Super Slurper (7). P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Keith Weller..

Limnanthes gracilis var. gracilis, also commonly known as Slender Meadow Foam. Credit: John Seevers.

Medium shot of slender meadow foam (Limnanthes gracilis var. gracilis). Credit: Joan Seevers.

Foam, Marblehead harbor. Credit: Library of Congress.

Foam. Credit: Library of Congress.

Beach in front of Sea Foam House, Old Orchard, Me. Credit: Library of Congress.

Sea foam left from incoming tides of gulf near Pensacola, Florida. Credit: Library of Congress.

Long Beach, California. Sea foam, which forms as the waves break on the shore. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Running beer gathers no foam.

The edges of the flood were lined with yellow foam.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

In the movies and in books, rabid animals foam at the mouth. (references)

This is a small foam pad you place over the urethra opening. (references)

In real life, rabid animals look like they have foam in their mouth because they have more saliva. (references)

Business

Leading deodorant brands include Fa, Lady’s Speed Stick, Rexona and Secret while leading shaving cream and foam brands are Gillette, Florena, Nivea, Denim, Old Spice, Mennen and Harley Davidson. (references)

Synthetic and flourochemical-based, the environment-friendly foam concentrate meets high international standards and can be used with fresh water, seawater or brackish water to control and extinguish hydrocarbon fuel fires. (references)

The most common of these are the CFCs, Halons, HBFCs, HCFCs and individual products such as carbon tetrachloride and 1,1,1 tri-chloroethane, which have been used for refrigeration, foam blowing, fire fighting, aerosol sprays, and degreasing. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Covered with foam

Expressions using "foam": alcohol foam ♦ alcohol type foam ♦ blob of foam ♦ extinction using foam ♦ Fibrin Foam ♦ foam at the mouth ♦ foam bath ♦ foam blanket ♦ foam breaker ♦ foam cell ♦ Foam Cells ♦ Foam cock ♦ foam depressant ♦ foam extinguisher ♦ foam inhibitor ♦ foam material ♦ foam over ♦ foam plastic ♦ foam rubber ♦ foam up ♦ foam with rage ♦ have foam ♦ high expansion foam ♦ ingot foam ♦ polyurethane foam ♦ sea foam ♦ shaving foam ♦ synthetic foam bed ♦ zinc foam. Additional references.

Beginning with "foam": foam-backed, foam-backing, foam-based, foam-blowing, foam-breathing, foam-compound, foam-covered, foam-filled, foam-flecked, foam-formings, foam-headed, foam-insulated, foam-lipped, foam-padded, foam-punching, foam-rubber, foam-streaked, foam-tasting, foam-wrapped.

Ending with "foam": anti-foam, bath-foam, Bio-foam, cavity-foam, poly-foam, sea-foam, shore-foam, wood-and-foam.

Afrikaans

skuim (froth). (various references)

Albanian

shkumëzoj (effervesce, froth, lather, seethe), shkumë (fluff, froth, scum, skim, spume, yeast), sfungjer (rag-gourd, sponge, wash gourd), nxjerr shkumë nga goja, mbuloj me shkumë (lather), jargë nga goja. (various references)

Arabic 

‏حنق (anger, enrage, exasperation, frenzy, fury, infuriate, ire, irritation, look savage, rage, resent, wrath), ‏زبد (bubble, churn, cream, froth, lather, scum, spume), ‏الرغوة المطفئة (foam extinguisher), ‏رغوة (froth, head, scum, spume, surf, work, yeast), ‏رغا (cream, effervesce, froth, lather, ramble). (various references)

Bulgarian 

слюнка (saliva, slaver, slobber, sputum), разпенвам (churn, lash), море (blue, brine, briny, deep, ocean, pond, sea, surge, the deep, water, waves), беснея (rage, raise cain, ramp, rave, run amok, run amuck, storm), пяна (froth, head, lather, spume), пеня се (bubble, churn, cream, effervesce, fizz, froth, froth up, fume, lather, scum, spume), дунапрен (foam plastic). (various references)

Chinese 

泡沫 . (various references)

Czech

pìna (froth, lather, scum, skim, spume, whip). (various references)

Danish

skum (froth). (various references)

Dutch

tintelen (froth), schuimen (froth, skim), schuim (froth, refuse, rubbish, waste), bruisen (froth). (various references)

Esperanto

ŝaŭmo (froth), ŝaŭmi (froth). (various references)

Faeroese

froða (froth), skúm (froth). (various references)

Farsi 

کف کردن , کف بدهان اوردن (Lather), کف (Apron, Blubber, Bottom, Insole, Scum, Silt, Slag), حباب های ریز, جوش وخروش (Seethe). (various references)

Finnish

vaahto (froth, lather, scum), kuohu (surge). (various references)

French

écume, mousse (foaming). (various references)

Frisian

skomje (froth), skom (froth), brûs (froth, shower). (various references)

German

schaum (froth, lather, scum, spume, suds, yeast), schäumen (boil, bubble, churn, froth, lather, seethe), gischt (froth, spray, spum). (various references)

Greek 

αφρός (froth, spray), αφρίζω (bubble, froth, spume). (various references)

Hebrew 

לתסוס (bubble, ferment, fizz, seethe, simmer, sparkle), להעלות קצף (froth, lather), קצף (fizz, froth, frothiness, spume, yeast). (various references)

Hungarian

hab (froth, mousse, scum, skimmings, spume, surf, yeast), tajték (froth, lather, scum, spume, surf, yeast). (various references)

Indonesian

busa (blow, gasp, lather, scum, suds), buih (froth, suds), bergercokan. (various references)

Italian

schiuma (froth, lather, scum, spume, suds), spuma (froth, spume, surf). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

泡 (bubble, froth, head on beer), 水泡 (bubble, nothing). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

すいほう (a blister, bubble, nothing), フォーム (form), あわ (bubble, froth, head on beer, millet). (various references)

Korean 

거품 (Bubble). (various references)

Manx

keshal (cream, cream of ale etc., effervesce, effervescence, fizz, foaming, froth, frothing, lather, lathering), kesh (fizz, froth, lather, scum, suds), freayney (flow, flow of sea, foaming, fume, heave, heave of sea, overflow, raging, ripple, rippling, ruffle, surge), freaynal. (various references)

Norwegian

skumme (fizz, froth, lather), skum (froth, lather). (various references)

Papiamen

skuma (froth). (various references)

Pig Latin

oamfay.(various references)

Portuguese

espuma (froth, lather, spume, yeast), escuma (scum, spume). (various references)

Romanian

face spumã (churn, cream, fizz, froth, scum), zgurã (cinder, cinders, clinker, dross, scale, scoria, scum, sinter, slag), spumega (froth, scum, spume), spumã (cream, froth, head, lather, scum, spume, suds), material spumos, mare (acred, adult, ample, big, boundless, brine, broad, bulky, deep, dense, enormous, famous, fat, flux, gorgeous, grand, grandiose, great, gross, hard, heavy, high, howling, huge, hulking, illustrious, immense, important, keen, king size, large, large scale, long, loose, major, man-sized, massy, mighty, open, pond, ponderous, pretty, renowned, rich, roomy, sea, sensible, severe, spacious, stupendous, tall, thick, thundering, vast, violent, voluminous, wide), clãbuci (froth), clãbuc (froth, lather, saliva). (various references)

Russian 

пена (cream, froth, head, lather, scum, spume). (various references)

Scottish

sgop, glaiseach, cop (froth, spume), cobhar (froth). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zapenušati, zapeniti, peniti se (fizz, froth), peniti (ream, spume), pena (lather, mousse, ream, scum, skim, spume, suds). (various references)

Spanish

espuma (floating waste, froth, frothiness, head, lather, meerschaum, scud, scum, spray, spume, surf, surface scum). (various references)

Sranan

skuma (froth). (various references)

Swedish

skum (dim, dimmish, dusky, fishy, froth, funny, head, phoney, queer, scum, shady, spume, yeast), fradga (froth), lödder (froath, froth, lather, rabble), skumma (browse, effervesce, froth, scan, scum, skim). (various references)

Thai

เกิดฟอง, ฟอง (bubble, spume), ทำให้เกิดฟอง (bubble). (various references)

Turkish

sünger (foam rubber, sponge), köpürtmek (churn, lather), köpürmek (be hopping mad, boil, boil over, bubble, churn, cream, effervesce, explode, fizz, fly off the handle, froth, lather, rage, ramp, ramp and rage, seethe, sparkle, yeast), köpük (feather, froth, head, lather, mousse, scum, skimmings, spume, suds, yeast). (various references)

Turkmen 

kцpьrjiklemek (froth), kцpьrjik (bubble), kцpьk, agaran (froth). (various references)

Ukrainian

спінювати (churn), мило (agreeably, amiably, decently, soap), піна (bead, cream, froth, lather, offscum, ream, scum, skim, spume), пінитися (cream, effervesce, fizz, froth, mantle, ream, scum, spume). (various references)

Vietnamese 

cao su bọt (foam rubber). (various references)

Welsh

trochioni (lather), trochion (lather, suds), ewynnu (froth), ewyn (froth, surf). (various references)

Yucatec

yoon (froth). (various references)

uhhur. (various references)

aphros. (various references)

aestuabat, aestuabit, aestuaverunt, aestuavit, exaestuo, ferveo, spuma, spumam, spumat. (various references)

famgian. (various references)

scume. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "foam": foamable, foamed, foamer, foamers, foamflower, foamflowers, foamier, foamiest, foamily, foaminess, foaminesses, foaming, foamless, foamlike, foams, foamy. (additional references)

Words ending with "foam": antifoam, defoam. (additional references)

Words containing "foam": antifoaming, defoamed, defoamer, defoamers, defoaming, defoams. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Foam" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: doam, Faam, faim, fam, fama, famc, famg, famt, famv, faum, fboa, feam, fema, fiam, Fiame, fiamma, Fimag, Fiom, fium, floam, foa, foab, Foad, foame, Foan, foant, foar, foat, foen, Fohad, fom, foma, fomp, fona, fooad, foom, fopa, foran, Foxam, Frahm, fram, froam, froan, froma, fuom, furam, hoam, ifoam, noam, oam, Ofm, ooam. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: moa, oaf.

-2 letters: am, fa, ma, mo, of, om.

+1 letter: foams, foamy, foram.

+2 letters: defoam, famous, fandom, fantom, fathom, femora, foamed, foamer, foeman, forams, formal, format.

+3 letters: aciform, aftmost, aliform, ausform, defoams, fandoms, fantoms, fathoms, femoral, fibroma, flotsam, foamers, foamier, foamily, foaming, footman, foramen, forearm, foreman, formals, formant, formate, formats, formula, frogman, fromage, mafiosi, mafioso, moanful, nonfarm, offramp, sfumato, wamefou, wolfram.

+4 letters: aeriform, ammonify, antifoam, arciform, auriform, ausforms, chamfron, defoamed, defoamer, factotum, famously, farmwork, fathomed, fearsome, fibromas, flamenco, flameout, flamingo, flatworm, flotsams, foamable, foamiest, foamless, foamlike, foilsman, footmark, foramens, foramina, forearms, foremast, forename, formable, formalin, formally, formants, formates, formulae, formulas, fromages, fumarole, fumatory, gasiform, infamous, informal, janiform, landform, leafworm, mafiosos, manifold, manyfold, meatloaf, mooncalf, napiform, offramps, paraform, planform, platform, ramiform, reformat, sfumatos, unfamous, variform, vasiform, wamefous, waveform, wolframs.