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Foamy vs Loam - What's the difference?

foamy | loam |

As an adjective foamy

is full of foam.

As a noun loam is

a type of soil; an earthy mixture of sand, silt and clay, with organic matter to which its fertility is chiefly due.

As a verb loam is

to cover, smear, or fill with loam.

foamy

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Full of foam.
    • He jumped overboard into the foamy waters of the Atlantic Ocean.
  • * 1715–1720':Tlepolemus, the sun of Hercules, / Led nine swift vessels through the '''foamy seas — Alexander Pope, ''The Iliad
  • * 1831': For busy thoughts the Stream flowed on / In '''foamy agitation — William Wordsworth, ''Yarrow Revisited .

    • Synonyms

    * frothy, spumescent

    loam

    English

    (wikipedia loam)

    Noun

  • A type of soil; an earthy mixture of sand, silt and clay, with organic matter to which its fertility is chiefly due.
  • * 1602 : , act V scene 1
    • Alexander died, Alexander was buried, Alexander
    returneth to dust, the dust is earth, of earth we make
    loam', and of why that ' loam whereto he was converted
    might they not stop a beer-barrel?
  • (metalworking) A mixture of sand, clay, and other materials, used in making moulds for large castings, often without a pattern.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To cover, smear, or fill with loam.
    • (Webster 1913)

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