Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - foam
Foam
foam
n. & v. --n. 1 a mass of small bubbles formed on or in liquid by agitation, fermentation, etc. 2 a froth of saliva or sweat. 3 a substance resembling these, e.g. rubber or plastic in a cellular mass. --v.intr. 1 emit foam; froth. 2 run with foam. 3 (of a vessel) be filled and overflow with foam. Phrases and idioms foam at the mouth be very angry. Derivatives foamless adj. foamy adj. (foamier, foamiest ). Etymology: OE fam f. WG
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I. noun Etymology: Middle English fome, from Old English fām; akin to Old High German feim ~, Latin spuma ~, pumex pumice Date: before 12th century a light frothy mass of fine bubbles formed in or on the surface of a liquid or from a liquid: as, a frothy mass formed in salivating or sweating, a stabilized froth produced chemically or mechanically and used especially in fighting oil fires, a material in a lightweight cellular form resulting from introduction of gas bubbles during manufacture, sea, something resembling ~, ~less adjective II. verb Date: before 12th century intransitive verb 1. to produce or form ~, to froth at the mouth especially in anger, to gush out in ~, to become covered with or as if with ~ , transitive verb to cause to ~, to convert (as a plastic) into a ~, ~able adjective ~er noun ...Толковый словарь английского языка
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