What's the difference between froth and lather?

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ambitions is coming from inside the house, with his frothingly deranged spokesperson Michael Cohen, a man 30 years out-of-date on spousal rape laws who sounds like a Queens mook in a tracksuit who traps a mom in her car in the Stop & Shop parking lot because he thinks she took his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

Lather


Definition:

  • (n.) Foam or froth made by soap moistened with water.
  • (n.) Foam from profuse sweating, as of a horse.
  • (n.) To spread over with lather; as, to lather the face.
  • (v. i.) To form lather, or a froth like lather; to accumulate foam from profuse sweating, as a horse.
  • (v. t.) To beat severely with a thong, strap, or the like; to flog.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) From the beginning of time, man has had the instinct to pour things in wounds to kill microorganisms and enhance healing, and..... "wounds are still lathered, bathed, and sprayed with various notions, potions, and lotions".
  • (2) He has also moved towards building up a sense of culture shock through withholding information rather than lathering on baroque descriptions.
  • (3) In the Commons and in the media, commentators and politicians got themselves in a lather about matters that were undoubtedly important, but not exactly uppermost in the public mind.
  • (4) And Twitter must get into a lather about something.
  • (5) The American people would probably even take a good court case over mortgage-backed securities, though it has been at least a year since anyone got in a good lather about derivatives.
  • (6) In training ground car parks where the football stars of the 1970s were doing well to park a Cortina, it is common now to see Bentleys and Porsches being lathered and valeted by young lads, ready for when the top players finish training and come back out.
  • (7) In a two-part series, Claire Lathers and colleagues highlight some of the current questions in this field.
  • (8) The employment rights and financial speculation tax plans that get the British chauvinistic press in such a lather are the kind of things people in Britain mostly like about the EU.
  • (9) That is where this all ends up.” Clegg said the Conservatives are in such “a total lather about Ukip” that they are even “bizarrely tearing up their own homework” as their own former prime minister Margaret Thatcher oversaw the formation of the common market.
  • (10) Lather, as a result of fusion of cleavage vesicles, curvature of the plasma membrane in the spore initials returns to their original state.
  • (11) Aside from being a hermit, you can reduce your infection rate by ensuring you – and your family – wash your hands regularly and properly (lathering both sides with soap for at least 20 seconds).
  • (12) In this second article in the two-part series on pharmacology in space, Claire Lathers and colleagues discuss the pharmacology of drugs used to control motion sickness in space and note that the pharmacology of the 'ideal' agent has yet to be worked out.
  • (13) Subjects took a single shower employing a whole body lather with approximately 7 gm of soap containing 2% 14C-triclocarban on a soap basis.
  • (14) For detailed review articles, the reader is referred to the following references: Gillis et al; Gillis and Quest; Roberts et al; Lathers and Roberts; Farah and Alousi; Benthe; Levitt et al; Smith and Haber; Somberg; Lee and Klaus; Mason; Schwartz.
  • (15) Murdoch, rambling away to Sun journalists off the record , probably lathered on the soft soap too hard.
  • (16) Lathers and Schraeder (1) have shown that autonomic dysfunction is associated with epileptogenic activity induced by pentylenetetrazol while Vindrola et al (2) found increased D-ALA2 methionine-enkephalinamide (DAME) levels in the rat brain after pentylenetetrazol-induced epileptogenic activity.
  • (17) "I'm just as comfortable with a chapati in my hand as a bag of chips," says the characteristically subdued headline, leading into text that celebrates Yousaf as "the motorbike-riding, kilt-wearing nationalist who also cooks a mean curry", and gets in a lather about his "'united colours of Benetton' family home".
  • (18) But next month they may be getting in a lather about the slow growth caused by the austerity programmes they themselves have necessitated.
  • (19) Puttnam denied that the BSkyB outcry was a case of the "liberal chattering class getting itself into a lather over its favourite straw man".
  • (20) And what thrills lay in store – each week, a pig was seized from the fields and brought to the pub, where it had its tail lathered in soap.