Definitions for foam

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foam foam

Spelling: [fohm]

IPA: /foʊm/

Foam is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 30 anagrams from letters in foam (afmo).

Definitions for foam

noun

1. a collection of minute bubbles formed on the surface of a liquid by agitation, fermentation, etc.:
2. the froth of perspiration, caused by great exertion, formed on the skin of a horse or other animal.
3. froth formed from saliva in the mouth, as in epilepsy and rabies.
4. a thick frothy substance, as shaving cream.
5. a chemically produced substance that smothers the flames on a burning liquid by forming a layer of minute, stable, heat-resistant bubbles on the liquid's surface. the layer of bubbles so formed.
6. a dispersion of gas bubbles in a solid, as foam glass, foam rubber, polyfoam, or foamed metal.
7. Literary. the sea.

Idioms

1. foam at the mouth, to be extremely or uncontrollably angry.

verb (used with object)

1. to cause to foam.
2. to cover with foam; apply foam to:
3. to insulate with foam.
4. to make (plastic, metal, etc.) into a foam.

verb (used without object)

1. to form or gather foam; emit foam; froth.

Origin of foam

before 900; Middle English fom, Old English fām; cognate with German Feim

Examples for foam

That tremendous hillside of foam is before my eyes night and day.

I think we have now got rid of the foam, as well as of the gale.

Blarney her cliverly, and work her to a foam against the McBrides.

Near the Mason jars are foam heads, the kind a showgirl uses to style her wigs.

He thinks he is at the end of a great, sloppy ride falling backwards into the foam.

The best example of that would be my first year when Kevin Hart hosted, we wrote a sketch called “foam Party.”

They chew this thing, a real thing, they do this until they foam at the mouth.

The foam put her helm down, and tacked beautifully to the south-east.

For enthusiasm alone, he's awarded a draft with a two-inch head of foam.

Nearly every dash of foam brought with it biting bits of seaweed now.