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Foaming

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Adjective

1. bubbling, bubbly, effervescing, foaming, foamy, frothy, spumy

emitting or filled with bubbles as from carbonation or fermentation

Example Sentences:
'bubbling champagne'
'foamy (or frothy) beer'

2. foaming, foamy, frothing

producing or covered with lathery sweat or saliva from exhaustion or disease

Example Sentences:
'the rabid animal's frothing mouth'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Foaming

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noun
1. 
a mass of small bubbles of gas formed on the surface of a liquid, such as the froth produced by agitating a solution of soap or detergent in water
2. 
frothy saliva sometimes formed in and expelled from the mouth, as in rabies
3. 
the frothy sweat of a horse or similar animal
4. 
a. 
any of a number of light cellular solids made by creating bubbles of gas in the liquid material and solidifying it: used as insulators and in packaging
b. 
(as modifier)
foam rubber
foam plastic
5. 
a colloid consisting of a gas suspended in a liquid
6. 
a mixture of chemicals sprayed from a fire extinguisher onto a burning substance to create a stable layer of bubbles which smothers the flames
7.  a poetic word for the sea
verb
8. 
to produce or cause to produce foam; froth
9. (intransitive)
to be very angry (esp in the phrase foam at the mouth)

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Foaming

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noun
1. 
the whitish mass of bubbles formed on or in liquids by agitation, fermentation, etc.
2. 
something like foam, as the heavy sweat of horses, or frothy saliva
3.  OLD-FASHIONED, Poetic
the sea
4. 
a kind of colloid in which a gas is suspended in a liquid or solid matter, having a texture ranging from soft and liquid, as whipped cream, to firm and elastic, as foam rubber
see also gel (sense 1)
verb intransitive
5. 
to form, produce, or gather foam; froth
verb transitive
6. 
to cause to foam

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Foaming

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n.
1. A colloidal dispersion of a gas in a liquid or solid medium, such as shaving cream, foam rubber, or a substance used to fight fires. A foam may be produced, especially on the surface of a liquid, by agitation or by a chemical reaction, such as fermentation.
2. Any of various light, porous, semirigid or spongy materials, usually the solidified form of a liquid full of gas bubbles, used as a building material or for thermal insulation or shock absorption, as in packaging.
3.
a. Frothy saliva produced especially as a result of physical exertion or a pathological condition.
b. The frothy sweat of a horse or other equine animal.
4. The sea.
v. foamed, foam·ing, foams
v.intr.
1. To produce or issue as foam; froth.
2.
a. To produce foam from the mouth, as from exertion or a pathological condition.
b. To be extremely angry; rage: was foaming over the disastrous budget cuts.
3. To teem; seethe: a playground foaming with third graders.
v.tr.
1. To cause to produce foam.
2. To cause to become foam.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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