foam
foam /f'oʊm/ (foams)
1 [N-UNCOUNT]
Foam consists of a mass of small bubbles that are formed when air and a liquid are mixed together.
The water curved round the rocks in great bursts of foam.
= froth
2 [N-MASS]
Foam is used to refer to various kinds of manufactured products which have a soft, light texture like a thick liquid.
...shaving foam.
= cream
3 [N-MASS]
Foam or foam rubber is soft rubber full of small holes which is used, for example, to make mattresses and cushions.
...modern three-piece suites filled with foam rubber...
We had given him a large foam mattress to sleep on.
4 [VERB] V, V-ing
If a liquid foams, it is full of small bubbles and keeps moving slightly.
I let the water run into it and we watched as it foamed and bubbled.
...ravines with foaming rivers rushing through them.
= froth
1 [N-UNCOUNT]
Foam consists of a mass of small bubbles that are formed when air and a liquid are mixed together.
The water curved round the rocks in great bursts of foam.
= froth
2 [N-MASS]
Foam is used to refer to various kinds of manufactured products which have a soft, light texture like a thick liquid.
...shaving foam.
= cream
3 [N-MASS]
Foam or foam rubber is soft rubber full of small holes which is used, for example, to make mattresses and cushions.
...modern three-piece suites filled with foam rubber...
We had given him a large foam mattress to sleep on.
4 [VERB] V, V-ing
If a liquid foams, it is full of small bubbles and keeps moving slightly.
I let the water run into it and we watched as it foamed and bubbled.
...ravines with foaming rivers rushing through them.
= froth