What's the difference between frote and froth?

Frote


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To rub or wear by rubbing; to chafe.

Example Sentences:

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ambitions is coming from inside the house, with his frothingly deranged spokesperson Michael Cohen, a man 30 years out-of-date on spousal rape laws who sounds like a Queens mook in a tracksuit who traps a mom in her car in the Stop & Shop parking lot because he thinks she took his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."

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