FROTH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does froth mean? 

• FROTH (noun)
  The noun FROTH has 1 sense:

1. a mass of small bubbles formed in or on a liquid

  Familiarity information: FROTH used as a noun is very rare.

• FROTH (verb)
  The verb FROTH has 3 senses:

1. become bubbly or frothy or foaming

2. make froth or foam and become bubbly

3. exude or expel foam

  Familiarity information: FROTH used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FROTH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A mass of small bubbles formed in or on a liquid

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

foam; froth

Context example:

the beer had a thick head of foam

Hypernyms ("froth" is a kind of...):

bubble (a hollow globule of gas (e.g., air or carbon dioxide))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "froth"):

shaving foam (toiletry consisting of a liquid preparation containing many small bubbles that soften the beard before shaving)

head (the foam or froth that accumulates at the top when you pour an effervescent liquid into a container)

lather (the foam resulting from excessive sweating (as on a horse))

lather; soapsuds; suds (the froth produced by soaps or detergents)

spume (foam or froth on the sea)

white water; whitewater (frothy water as in rapids or waterfalls)

Derivation:

froth (make froth or foam and become bubbly)

froth (become bubbly or frothy or foaming)

frothy (emitting or filled with bubbles as from carbonation or fermentation)

• FROTH (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they froth    ... he / she / it froths   
Past simple: frothed   
Past participle: frothed   
-ing form: frothing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Become bubbly or frothy or foaming

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

effervesce; fizz; foam; form bubbles; froth; sparkle

Context example:

sparkling water

Hypernyms (to "froth" is one way to...):

bubble (form, produce, or emit bubbles)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "froth"):

lather (form a lather)

seethe (foam as if boiling)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Derivation:

froth (a mass of small bubbles formed in or on a liquid)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Make froth or foam and become bubbly

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

froth; spume; suds

Context example:

The river foamed

Hypernyms (to "froth" is one way to...):

create; make (make or cause to be or to become)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Derivation:

froth (a mass of small bubbles formed in or on a liquid)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Exude or expel foam

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Context example:

the angry man was frothing at the mouth

Hypernyms (to "froth" is one way to...):

exudate; exude; ooze; ooze out; transude (release (a liquid) in drops or small quantities)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "froth"):

lather (exude sweat or lather)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s

 Context examples 

The chicken was tough, the tongue too salty, and the chocolate wouldn't froth properly.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

He was in a milky froth of water.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Straight away he raced, with Dolly, panting and frothing, one leap behind; nor could she gain on him, so great was his terror, nor could he leave her, so great was her madness.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

They are a deep, strong, silent stream, and you are the scum, the bubbles, the poor, silly froth that floats upon the surface.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The symptoms of AES include convulsion, unconsciousness, excessive sweating, and frothing at the mouth.

(Lychee deaths linked to pesticides, not the fruit, SciDev.Net)

His lips were flecked with a soapy froth, and sometimes he choked and gurgled and became inarticulate.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

He took notice of a general tradition, that Yahoos had not been always in their country; but that many ages ago, two of these brutes appeared together upon a mountain; whether produced by the heat of the sun upon corrupted mud and slime, or from the ooze and froth of the sea, was never known; that these Yahoos engendered, and their brood, in a short time, grew so numerous as to overrun and infest the whole nation; that the Houyhnhnms, to get rid of this evil, made a general hunting, and at last enclosed the whole herd; and destroying the elder, every Houyhnhnm kept two young ones in a kennel, and brought them to such a degree of tameness, as an animal, so savage by nature, can be capable of acquiring, using them for draught and carriage; that there seemed to be much truth in this tradition, and that those creatures could not be yinhniamshy (or aborigines of the land), because of the violent hatred the Houyhnhnms, as well as all other animals, bore them, which, although their evil disposition sufficiently deserved, could never have arrived at so high a degree if they had been aborigines, or else they would have long since been rooted out; that the inhabitants, taking a fancy to use the service of the Yahoos, had, very imprudently, neglected to cultivate the breed of asses, which are a comely animal, easily kept, more tame and orderly, without any offensive smell, strong enough for labour, although they yield to the other in agility of body, and if their braying be no agreeable sound, it is far preferable to the horrible howlings of the Yahoos.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

When he flung himself against the bars, quivering and frothing, they laughed at him and taunted him.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Pike, the malingerer, leaped upon the crippled animal, breaking its neck with a quick flash of teeth and a jerk, Buck got a frothing adversary by the throat, and was sprayed with blood when his teeth sank through the jugular.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)