Foam vs. Froth

A substance composed of a large collection of bubbles or their solidified remains.

Example: ‘He doesn't like so much foam in his beer.’;

A substance formed by trapping pockets of gas in a liquid or solid.

Example: ‘A foam mat can soften a hard seat.’;

(by extension) Sea foam; the sea.

Example: ‘He is in Europe, across the foam.’;

Fury.

(intransitive) To form or emit foam.

(intransitive) To spew saliva as foam, to foam at the mouth.

The white substance, consisting of an aggregation of bubbles, which is formed on the surface of liquids, or in the mouth of an animal, by violent agitation or fermentation; froth; spume; scum; as, the foam of the sea.

To gather foam; to froth; as, the billows foam.

Example: ‘He foameth, and gnasheth with his teeth.’;

To form foam, or become filled with foam; - said of a steam boiler when the water is unduly agitated and frothy, as because of chemical action.

To cause to foam; as, to foam the goblet; also (with out), to throw out with rage or violence, as foam.

a mass of small bubbles formed in or on a liquid

a lightweight material in cellular form; made by introducing gas bubbles during manufacture

form bubbles;

Example: ‘The boiling soup was frothing’; ‘The river was foaming’; ‘Sparkling water’;

a mass of small bubbles formed on or in liquid, typically by agitation or fermentation

Example: ‘a beer with a thick head of foam’;

a mass of small bubbles formed from saliva or sweat.

a liquid preparation containing many small bubbles

Example: ‘shaving foam’;

a lightweight form of rubber or plastic made by solidifying liquid foam

Example: ‘foam rubber’;

the sea

Example: ‘Venus rising from the foam’;

form or produce a mass of small bubbles; froth

Example: ‘the sea foamed beneath them’;

Foam is an object formed by trapping pockets of gas in a liquid or solid.A bath sponge and the head on a glass of beer are examples of foams. In most foams, the volume of gas is large, with thin films of liquid or solid separating the regions of gas.

foam

Example: ‘Froth is a very important feature of many types of coffee.’;

(figuratively) unimportant events or actions; drivel

Example: ‘Thousands of African children die each day: why do the newspapers continue to discuss unnecessary showbiz froth?’;

(transitive) To create froth in (a liquid).

Example: ‘I like to froth my coffee for ten seconds exactly.’;

(intransitive) (of a liquid) To bubble.

(transitive) To spit, vent, or eject, as froth.

(intransitive) (literally) To spew saliva as froth; (figuratively) to rage, vent one's anger.

(transitive) To cover with froth.

Example: ‘A horse froths his chain.’;

The bubbles caused in fluids or liquors by fermentation or agitation; spume; foam; esp., a spume of saliva caused by disease or nervous excitement.

Any empty, senseless show of wit or eloquence; rhetoric without thought.

Example: ‘It was a long speech, but all froth.’;

Light, unsubstantial matter.

To cause to foam.

To spit, vent, or eject, as froth.

Example: ‘He . . . froths treason at his mouth.’; ‘Is your spleen frothed out, or have ye more?’;

To cover with froth; as, a horse froths his chain.

To throw up or out spume, foam, or bubbles; to foam; as beer froths; a horse froths.

a mass of small bubbles formed in or on a liquid

form bubbles;

Example: ‘The boiling soup was frothing’; ‘The river was foaming’; ‘Sparkling water’;

make froth or foam and become bubbly;

Example: ‘The river foamed’;