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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of foam.

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Examples

  • For true performance, cellulose or any of the foams are the only high-performance materials in stud wall construction.

    RECYCLED BLUE JEAN INSULATION by Bonded Logic | Inhabitat 2006

  • "My cellar holds none such; but if sack, or Rhenish, or wine of Gascony can serve, why, say the word and the flagon foams, that is all."

    The Fair Maid of Perth St. Valentine's Day Walter Scott 1801

  • Mr. Adri à 's "foams," made with a siphon, and "airs," created by emulsifying the foam on food that has liquified, have been imitated by chefs around the globe — with varying degrees of success.

    Putting on Airs Moira Hodgson 2010

  • When the fat "foams" or bubbles, or reaches a temperature of about 300 degrees F., drop into it a piece of bread.

    School and Home Cooking Carlotta Cherryholmes Greer

  • Gascony can serve, why, say the word and the flagon foams, that is all.”

    The Fair Maid of Perth 2008

  • Various disordered dense systems, such as foams, gels, emulsions and colloidal suspensions, undergo a jamming transition from a liquid state (they flow) to a solid state below a yield stress

    Naturejobs - All Jobs G. Ovarlez 2010

  • NPR solids such as foams or honeycombs may also have application as separators for particles in fluids.

    iMechanica - Comments Lifeng Wang 2010

  • NPR solids such as foams or honeycombs may also have application as separators for particles in fluids.

    iMechanica - Comments Ajay B Harish 2010

  • Bill Dewhirst says, "I use an aersol and that kind of foams and pulls the stain up from the carpet, I've gotten ink out of stuff."

    WVLT - Home - Headlines 2009

  • Most sound-deadening materials - such as foams or other cellular materials comprising many small cavities - exploit the fact that acoustic waves resonate through the air on various frequencies, Nadler explains.

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2008

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