What's the difference between foam and froth?

Foam


Definition:

  • (n.) The white substance, consisting of an aggregation of bubbles, which is formed on the surface of liquids, or in the mouth of an animal, by violent agitation or fermentation; froth; spume; scum; as, the foam of the sea.
  • (n.) To gather foam; to froth; as, the billows foam.
  • (n.) To form foam, or become filled with foam; -- said of a steam boiler when the water is unduly agitated and frothy, as because of chemical action.
  • (v.t.) To cause to foam; as,to foam the goblet; also (with out), to throw out with rage or violence, as foam.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We similarly evaluated the ability of other phospholipids to form stable foam at various concentrations and ethanol volume fractions and found: bovine brain sphingomyelin greater than dipalmitoyl 3-sn-phosphatidylcholine greater than egg sphingomyelin greater than egg lecithin greater than phosphatidylglycerol.
  • (2) Attach self-adhesive foam strips, or metal strips with brushes or wipers attached, to window, door and loft-hatch frames (if you have sash windows, it's better to ask a professional to do it).
  • (3) Lower density foams can be used only if the impact test standards are rewritten with less emphasis on impacts with convex and pointed objects.
  • (4) Focus in this discussion is on the following: 1) female sterilization -- laparotomy, minilaparotomy, and colpotomy; endoscopic sterilization techniques; transcervical approaches to female sterilization; systemic nonsurgical female sterilization; and reversible techniques of female sterilization; 2) abortion -- pregnancy testing, long-term effects; and 3) systemic contraceptives -- steroidal contraception; locally active methods; vaginal foams, creams, and jellies; the diaphragm and other intravaginal barriers; IUDs; and periodic abstine nce.
  • (5) Immunoreactivity in fatty streaks was located around collections of foam cells.
  • (6) Bloody odd combination but those Orange Foam Headphones would blast those magnificent records into my developing brain over and over again" chernypyos – Björk's Human Behavior and Sinead O'Connor's Fire On Babylon: "bjork's 'human behavior' and sinead o'connor's "fire on babylon" oddly stick in my head from that one evening walking in the woods, breathing the damp air, and feeling pleasantly invisible" Pyromancer – REM – Automatic for the People Blood Sugar Sex Magic Pearl Jam - Vs RATM's first album Portishead Maxinquaye by Tricky Manic Street Preachers – Gold Against the Soul Smashing Pumpkins, Siamese Dream "I used to go to the local library and take out a CD (50p for 3 weeks!
  • (7) In contrast, a strong connection was established between the wound base and the covering material when using the three foam substances Coldex, Epigard and SYSpur-derm, through the formation of granulation tissue.
  • (8) Our results confirm that in human atherosclerotic plaques the majority of the foam cells are obviously macrophage-derived, which emphasizes the important role of macrophages in the morphogenesis of these lesions.
  • (9) A suspension of 0.6 mg polyvinyl alcohol foam powder per milliliter of normal saline was found to be optimum.
  • (10) In 1961 contraceptive aerosol foam was introduced and has become widely used.
  • (11) The fine structure of four glioblastomas and two cerebellar astrocytomas maintained in organ culture systems up to 137 days and 43 days, respectively, using either a three-dimensional sponge foam matrix technic or a Millipore filter platform technic, is described and compared.
  • (12) The three xanthomas from two FH homozygotes exhibited marked lipid accumulation in histiocytic foam cells but no lipid deposits in the endothelium of blood vessels in the lesions.
  • (13) After curing of the cement in a environment of 37 degrees C the resulting cement rod was released from the cylinder and the diameter of the rod was measured at 37 degrees C. The influence of the "foaming effect" on the transverse dimensions of the rods was studied by curing the cement at 37 degrees C and 2 atm air pressure in a high-pressure-vessel.
  • (14) This soft body armour was applied, either in direct contact with the thoracic wall of the animals, or with different plastic foam sheets, so-called trauma packs, between the armour and the skin.
  • (15) The foam-cell forming macrophage and its response to modified lipoproteins is considered a key step in the development of atherosclerosis.
  • (16) Implantation of saline in Gel-foam resulted in the same morphology as in hemisected animals except for increased lesion size due to mechanical factors and decreased cicatrix density during the first 30 DPO.
  • (17) But the highlight, of course, was when One Direction ran off stage and my youngest touched Zane with a giant foam hand that I purchased for an extortionate price.
  • (18) To test this hypothesis and to explore how the pleural pressure gradient might affect inhomogeneity of alveolar pressures, we deflated at submaximal flows excised canine lobes that first were suspended in air and then were immersed in foams that simulated the vertical gradient of pleural pressure.
  • (19) These data illustrate that LDL receptor-mediated endocytosis of fused LDL particles can lead to foam cell formation in cultured macrophages.
  • (20) In the granulomatous zone lymphocytes, plasma cells, macrophages, Russel bodies, foam cells, neutrophil leukocytes were found.

Froth


Definition:

  • (n.) The bubbles caused in fluids or liquors by fermentation or agitation; spume; foam; esp., a spume of saliva caused by disease or nervous excitement.
  • (n.) Any empty, senseless show of wit or eloquence; rhetoric without thought.
  • (n.) Light, unsubstantial matter.
  • (v. t.) To cause to foam.
  • (v. t.) To spit, vent, or eject, as froth.
  • (v. t.) To cover with froth; as, a horse froths his chain.
  • (v. i.) To throw up or out spume, foam, or bubbles; to foam; as beer froths; a horse froths.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Mood Indigo (18 July) Arguably the most French movie ever made, Romain Duris and Audrey Tautou are quite adorable as fairy tale lovers in Michel Gondry's adaptation of Boris Vian's Froth on the Daydream.
  • (2) Tea swathed in frothed milk sweetened to within an inch of its long, UHT life.
  • (3) It may be of significance, however, that nearly half of SIDS infants had a respiratory tract infection in the last two weeks of life while forty percent had bloody froth over their mouths when found, presumably pulmonary oedema fluid.
  • (4) Sandwood Bay in Scotland Photograph: Alamy Am Buachaille, a rocky sea stack, stood guard-like to one side, the giant grey slabs which cut into the sea were bathed in frothing waves, and the dim glow of the Cape Wrath lighthouse sent out a muted white beam beyond the cliffs to my right.
  • (5) The answer, I think, is: bankers, bailed out; the royal family, whose income has risen in this recession thanks to the intervention of the chancellor; and those who should bridge the tax gap, estimated at £32bn in 2010-11 by HMRC, but don't, and are only punished with a froth of meaningless rhetoric.
  • (6) Viewed from the outside, Pakistan looms as the Fukushima of fundamentalism: a volatile, treacherous place filled with frothing Islamists and double-dealing generals, leaking plutonium-grade terrorist trouble.
  • (7) If anything, the danger to Trump’s ambitions is coming from inside the house, with his frothingly deranged spokesperson Michael Cohen, a man 30 years out-of-date on spousal rape laws who sounds like a Queens mook in a tracksuit who traps a mom in her car in the Stop & Shop parking lot because he thinks she took his space, beats on the hood and screams, Do you know who my uncle is?
  • (8) Milk texture talk quickly becomes arcane, with terms like frothing, stretching and the all-important microfoam.
  • (9) Anti-frothing agents were used in sheep before cattle to treat acute legume bloat.
  • (10) The tetrakaidecahedral shape and the spatial configuration of these bubbles closely resemble those of stacked epidermal cells, although the columns of a froth were oriented at a 60degrees angle to their substratum rather than at right angles as occurs in the epidermal cell columns.
  • (11) ‘You get an enormous amount of froth and speculation in the aftermath of a big IPO (Initial Public Offering) of this kind.
  • (12) But it is all merely worthless and meaningless froth while the city council permits a gateway to hell to do brisk business just a few streets away.
  • (13) Gross postmortem examination of the lungs and internal organs revealed only a bloody froth in the trachea of the heparin-treated rats exposed to 3 ATA oxygen.
  • (14) The possiblity that the organization of cells into columns in the mammalian epidermis may be a result of the close packing of these cells has been investigated in a model system involving the association of randomly produced soap bubbles into a stable froth.
  • (15) 8.37am BST At Peel Hunt, traders reject Vince Cable's claim that today's share price spike is merely 'froth'.
  • (16) "Are baby pictures really worse than Instagram shots of artfully frothed coffee?"
  • (17) The symptomatic period proper was characterized by persistent chewing with frothing, varying degrees of gagging, and vomit.
  • (18) Simmer for about 45 minutes to an hour, at a low bubble, scraping off any froth that rises to the surface.
  • (19) A sudden massive effusion of bloody froth issued from around the cannula.
  • (20) "As yet this is a small but vocal minority, but I think we are seeing an emergence from the froth and apathy of the 1990s."