Bubbles vs Foam - What's the difference?
bubbles | foam |
(slang) Sparkling wine; champagne.
*2011 Grace Dent "
*:my grandest ambition is "pamper time" with "a glass of bubbles " and "some nibbles".
(bubble)
A substance composed of a large collection of bubbles or their solidified remains.
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To form or emit foam.
* Bible, Mark ix. 18
* 1877 , (Anna Sewell), (Black Beauty) Chapter 23[http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Black_Beauty/23]
As nouns the difference between bubbles and foam
is that bubbles is plural of lang=en while foam is a substance composed of a large collection of bubbles or their solidified remains.As verbs the difference between bubbles and foam
is that bubbles is third-person singular of bubble while foam is to form or emit foam.bubbles
English
Noun
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Verb
(head)foam
English
Noun
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Alzheimer’s Disease, volume=101, issue=3, page=200, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Similar studies of rats have employed four different intracranial resorbable, slow sustained release systems—surgical foam , a thermal gel depot, a microcapsule or biodegradable polymer beads.}}
Derived terms
* foamyVerb
(en verb)- He foameth , and gnasheth with his teeth.
- What I suffered with that rein for four long months in my lady's carriage, it would be hard to describe, but I am quite sure that, had it lasted much longer, either my health or my temper would have given way. Before that, I never knew what it was to foam at the mouth, but now the action of the sharp bit on my tongue and jaw, and the constrained position of my head and throat, always caused me to froth at the mouth more or less.