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Foam vs Afroth - What's the difference?

foam | afroth |

As a noun foam

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

As a verb foam

is to form or emit foam.

As an adjective afroth is

covered with froth, foam.

foam

English

Noun

  • A substance composed of a large collection of bubbles or their solidified remains.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author= Charles T. Ambrose
    • , title= 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.}}
  • (by extension) Sea foam; (figuratively) the sea.

    • Derived terms

    * foamy

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To form or emit foam.
  • * Bible, Mark ix. 18
    • He foameth , and gnasheth with his teeth.
  • * 1877 , (Anna Sewell), (Black Beauty) Chapter 23[http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Black_Beauty/23]
    • 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.

    afroth

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Covered with froth, foam.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1969, author=Robert Coover, title=Pricksongs & descants: fictions citation
    • , passage=Fine the horses, with flying manes and tight lithe bodies, shoulders sweating, muscles rippling, mouths afroth .}}
  • * {{quote-book, year=2005, author=Robin Cody, title=Ricochet River citation
    • , passage=Like an underwater detonation, the pool was afroth with flapping and splashing.}}
  • (figuratively) Full of, or covered with something.
  • * {{quote-news, year=1908, date=August 20, title=Women in Print, work=Evening Post citation
    • , passage=The charms of a blue-eyed chestnut-haired maiden in a turquoise muslin, with a brown boa, and a brown chip hat afroth with brown feathers, could not be gainsaid.}}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1960, author=John Barth, title=The Sot-Weed Factor
    • , passage=
  • (figuratively) Excited.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2005, date=March 1, author=Lynn Jaeger, title=Toxic Tank Tops, and Other Oscar Revelations, work=The Village Voice citation
    • , passage=Last Saturday, the day before the Oscars, when the entire fashion world was afroth about which starlet was planning to wear what the next night, a small item in The New York Times caught our eye.}}
  • * {{quote-news, year=2008, date=January 26, author=Mitch Potter, title=Times' editorial page calls for intervention to save Winehouse, work=TheStar.com citation
    • , passage=The weighty editorial page of The Times of London doesn't make a habit of devoting thought to the travails of pop singers, whose exploits now more than ever keep the red-top British tabloids afroth .}}
  • * {{quote-news, year=2008, date=September 3, author=Barney Ronay, title=Can money buy success?, work=The Guardian citation
    • , passage=Afroth with ambition, the new owners have already promised to win the Premier League, the Champions League and probably the Glenrothes by-election too.}}