Definitions for foams

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foams foam

Spelling: [fohm]

IPA: /foʊm/

Foams is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 62 anagrams from letters in foams (afmos).

Definitions for foams

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 foams

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

Examples for foams

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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