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Definition: Frothing |
FrothingAdjective1. Covered with or resembling small bubbles as from being agitated by beating or heating; "the bubbling candy mixture"; "a cup of foaming cocoa"; "frothy milkshakes"; "frothy waves"; "spumy surf". 2. Producing or covered with lathery sweat or saliva from exhaustion or disease; "the rabid animal's frothing mouth". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "frothing" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Chemical Industry | Formation of a vesicular texture by the development of gas bubbles in a more or less fluid body. Source: European Union. (references) |
Environment | A mass of solid matter that floats on the surface of water. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Synonyms: FrothingSynonyms: bubbling (adj), foaming (adj), foamy (adj), spumous (adj), spumy (adj), sudsy (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Frothing |
| English words defined with "frothing": foaming, foamy. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "frothing": froth promoter, FROTHING-MACHINE OPERATOR ♦ Lyster process ♦ terpineol. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Consumer Goods | |
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| Play | Caption |
 | Effervescent; airy; boiling; bouncy; bubbling; bubbly; carbonated; elastic; expansive; fermenting; fizzy; foaming; foamy; frothing; frothy; resilient; sparkling; volatile; fizzing; fizz. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
Winston S. Churchill | 1946 | We must make sure that its work is fruitful, that it is a reality and not a sham, that it is a force for action, and not merely a frothing of words, that it is a true temple of peace in which the shields of many nations can some day be hung up, and not merely a cockpit in a Tower of Babel. ("Iron Curtain" Speech) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Frothing" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 74.42% of the time. "Frothing" is used about 43 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 74.42% | 32 | 61,292 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 20.93% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Noun (singular) | 4.65% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 43 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "frothing": foaming frothing. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
frothing | 15 |
frothing pitcher | 12 |
frothing milk | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "frothing"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | مزبد (barmy, buttery, foamy, frothy, lathery, scummy). (various references) | |
Chinese | "泡沫 (Frothed). (various references) | |
Danish | skumdannelse (aeration, foam, foaming, surging), skum (foam, froth). (various references) | |
Dutch | schuimvorming (aeration, foam, foaming, surging), schuim (foam, froth, refuse, rubbish, waste). (various references) | |
Finnish | vaahto (foam, froth, lather, scum). (various references) | |
French | formation de mousse, mousseux (frothy), mousse (froth, frothiness), moussage, écume (froth, frothiness). (various references) | |
German | schäumend (creaming, foamily, foaming, foamy, frothy, lathering). (various references) | |
Greek | άφρισμα (foaming). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מפעפע (bubbling, seething). (various references) | |
Hungarian | tajtékzó (frothy, lathery, scummy), habzó (beady, churning, effervescent, foamy, frothy, gassy, lathery, scummy). (various references) | |
Italian | formazione di schiuma (fermenting wort, foaming), schiuma (foam, froth, lather, scum, spume, suds). (various references) | |
Manx | keshal (cream, cream of ale etc., effervesce, effervescence, fizz, foam, foaming, froth, lather, lathering), keshagh (fizzy, frothy, lathery, sudsy, taxable). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | othingfray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | formação de espuma (foaming), espuma (froth, lather, scum, spume, yeast). (various references) | |
Spanish | formación de espuma (foaming), espuma (floating waste, foam, froth, frothiness, head, lather, meerschaum, scud, scum, spray, spume, surf, surface scum). (various references) | |
Swedish | skum (dim, dimmish, dusky, fishy, foam, froth, funny, head, phoney, queer, scum, shady, spume, yeast). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Frothing" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Forthlin, frotting, Krathong, Rohtang, roothing, rothing. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "f-g-h-i-n-o-r-t" | |
-2 letters: forint, fright, righto, throng, trigon. | |
-3 letters: fight, firth, forth, frith, front, froth, giron, girth, gonif, grift, griot, grith, groin, ingot, intro, night, nitro, north, ohing, rhino, right, thing, thong, thorn, tigon, trigo. | |
-4 letters: fino, firn, fohn, foin, font, fort, frig, frit, frog, gift, girn, giro, girt, grin, grit, grot, hint, hong, horn, info. | |
| Words containing the letters "f-g-h-i-n-o-r-t" | |
+1 letter: fortnight. | |
+2 letters: fortnights. | |
+3 letters: forthcoming, fortnightly. | |
+4 letters: flowcharting, forgathering, godfathering, mothproofing, pitchforking, sportfishing. | |
+5 letters: flowchartings, flugelhornist, foregathering, fortnightlies, sportfishings, thermoforming, unforthcoming. | |
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