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Spume vs Whitecap - What's the difference?

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Spume is a related term of whitecap.


As nouns the difference between spume and whitecap

is that spume is foam or froth of liquid, particularly that of sea water while whitecap is any of several birds having a white patch on the head.

As a verb spume

is to froth.

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.
    • ----

    whitecap

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • any of several birds having a white patch on the head
  • a wave having a white crest; a breaker