foam
foam 英 [fəʊm] 美 [foʊm]
n. 泡沫；水沫
进行时:foaming 过去式:foamed 过去分词:foamed 第三人称单数:foams 名词复数:foams
- Foam is a substance with so many tiny air bubbles that it becomes frothy or thick. Your liquid shampoo becomes a foam as you lather it into your wet hair.
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- n. 泡沫；水沫
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1. a foam mattress
泡沫橡胶床垫
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2. foam packaging
泡沫橡胶包装材料
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3. a glass of beer with a good head of foam
一杯表面有厚厚一层泡沫的啤酒
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4. The breaking waves left the beach covered with foam.
浪花四溅，海滩上满是泡沫。
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5. shaving foam
剃须泡沫膏
- foam (n.) Middle English fom, fome (c. 1300), from Old English fam "foam, saliva froth; sea," from West Germanic *faimo- (source also of Old High German veim, German Feim), from PIE root *(s)poi-mo- "foam, froth" (source also of Sanskrit phenah; Latin pumex "pumice," spuma "foam;" Old Church Slavonic pena "foam;" Lithuanian spainė "a streak of foam"). The plastic variety used in packaging, etc., so called from 1937.
- foam (v.) Old English famgian "to emit foam, to boil," from the source of foam (n.). Sense of "become foamy, to froth" is from late 14c. Transitive sense is from 1725. Related: Foamed; foaming.
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