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foamless Definition


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foam
noun
    1. A mass of tiny bubbles forming on the surface of liquids.
      Thesaurus: froth, bubbles, head, lather, frothiness, suds, effervescence, spume.
    2. A substance composed of tiny bubbles formed by passing gas through it.
    3. Frothy saliva or perspiration.
    4. Any of many light cellular materials used for packaging, insulation, etc, produced by passing gas through, and then solidifying, a liquid.
    5. A colloid consisting of gas bubbles dispersed evenly throughout a liquid.
      Example: shaving foam
    6. poetic
      The sea.
    7. Also as adj.
      Example: foam rubber
verb
    tr & intr
    foamed, foaming
    1. To produce or make something produce foam.
      Form: foam up (sometimes)
Derivative: foaming
noun, adj
    Derivative: foamless
    adj
      Idiom: foam at the mouth
        colloq
        To be furiously angry.
        To produce and expel frothy saliva at the mouth, eg as a rabid animal does.
      Etymology: Anglo-Saxon fam.



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