Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, consisting of, or resembling foam.
- adjective Covered with foam.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Covered with or consisting of foam; frothy; of a foam-like character.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Covered with foam; frothy; spumy.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Full of
foam .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective producing or covered with lathery sweat or saliva from exhaustion or disease
- adjective emitting or filled with bubbles as from carbonation or fermentation
Etymologies
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Examples
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It's not foamy, which is kinda cool, and you put a thin layer on your face and let it sit for 30 seconds, generating a sensation toeing the line between tingling and scorching.
Boing Boing: August 22, 2004 - August 28, 2004 Archives 2004
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She is hardly knows what to say when she arrives at the home of singer Delysia LaFosse and finds her wearing “the kind of foamy robe, no mere dressing gown, worn by the most famous of stars in seduction scenes in the films.”
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Researchers have long been intrigued, and a bit unnerved, by a family of microbes known as spuma or "foamy" viruses.
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This is a stupid name because there's no chocolate in them at alll, and they are a kind of foamy-topped bar cookie that's really good.
happy birthday to me Becca 2007
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This is a stupid name because there's no chocolate in them at alll, and they are a kind of foamy-topped bar cookie that's really good.
Archive 2007-10-01 Becca 2007
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The team's research shows that Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) is able to stimulate macrophages - the immune cells the bacterium infects - to accumulate fat droplets, turning them into "foamy" cells.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories PhysOrg Team 2010
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The team's research shows that Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) is able to stimulate macrophages - the immune cells the bacterium infects - to accumulate fat droplets, turning them into "foamy" cells.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories PhysOrg Team 2010
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The team's research shows that Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) is able to stimulate macrophages - the immune cells the bacterium infects - to accumulate fat droplets, turning them into "foamy" cells.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories PhysOrg Team 2010
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The "foamy" effect that we grew up thinking was the
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The "foamy" effect that we grew up thinking was the Peroxide killing germs is just a chemical reaction: much like the fizzing you get from pouring soda into a glass.
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