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Spume vs Surf - What's the difference?

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Spume is a related term of surf.


As nouns the difference between spume and surf

is that spume is foam or froth of liquid, particularly that of sea water while surf is waves that break on an ocean shoreline.

As verbs the difference between spume and surf

is that spume is to froth while surf is to ride a wave, usually on a surfboard.

spume

English

Noun

(-)
  • Foam or froth of liquid, particularly that of sea water.
  • * (John Milton) (1608-1674)
  • Materials dark and crude, / Of spiritous and fiery spume .
  • * {{quote-book, year=1892, author=(James Yoxall)
  • , chapter=5, title= The Lonely Pyramid , passage=The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom.
  • * 1906 , (Jack London), , part I, ch I,
  • Their breath froze in the air as it left their mouths, spouting forth in spumes of vapour that settled upon the hair of their bodies and formed into crystals of frost.

    Derived terms

    * (l) * (l)

    Verb

    (spum)
  • To froth.
  • ----

    surf

    English

    (wikipedia surf)

    Noun

    (-)
  • Waves that break on an ocean shoreline.
  • * 1883 ,
  • ...perhaps it was the look of the island, with its gray, melancholy woods, and wild stone spires, and the surf that we could both see and hear foaming and thundering on the steep beach...
  • * 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 5
  • 'But when the surf fell enough for the boats to get ashore, and Greening held a lantern for me to jump down into the passage, after we had got the side out of the tomb, the first thing the light fell on at the bottom was a white face turned skyward.
  • * {{quote-book
  • , page=12 , year=1900 , author=Joseph Grinnell , title=Birds of the Kotzebue Sound Region, Alaska citation , passage=It was alone, nervously alighting and flying short distances along the surf .}}
  • * {{quote-book
  • , page=248 , year=1941 , author=Raymond Russell Camp , title=Fishing the Surf citation , passage=In most instances the inshore holes or pockets along the surf do not produce as well as the cuts or sloughs between sand bars.}}
  • * {{quote-book
  • , page=181 , year=1963 , author=Vlad Evanoff , title=Spin Fishing citation , passage=Snook are found in rivers, canals, inlets and along the surf , especially around sand bars, tidal rips, jetties, bridges and piers.}}
  • (UK, dialect) The bottom of a drain.
  • Derived terms

    * surf line * surf rider noun

    Verb

    (surf)
  • To ride a wave, usually on a surfboard.
  • To browse the Internet.
  • Derived terms

    * surfer noun

    Derived terms

    * (ride a wave) surfer, surfing, surfboard * (browse the Internet) silver surfer