foam – English noun declension

English noun forms of foam

Noun: foam
Singularfoam
Pluralfoams

Sample Sentences

  • Similarly, the biotech giant Cargill has begun manufacturing a polymer from vegetable oils that is used in polyurethane foams, which is found in beddings, furniture and car-seat headrests. [2008 April 9, Yudhijit Bhattacharjee, “Harnessing Biology, and Avoiding Oil, for Chemical Goods”, in The New York Times:]
  • Similar studies of rats have employed four different intracranial resorbable, slow sustained release systems—surgical foam, a thermal gel depot, a microcapsule or biodegradable polymer beads. [2013 May-June, Charles T. Ambrose, “Alzheimer’s Disease”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, page 200:]
  • ’Tis thou that rigg’st the bark and plough’st the foam, [c. 1605–1608 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:]
  • 1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner in Lyrical Ballads, London: J. & A. Arch, p. 12,
  • The breezes blew, the white foam flew, / The furrow follow’d free: / We were the first that ever burst / Into that silent Sea.
  • And the heaven became livid with the violence of the tempest […] and the river was tormented into foam […] [1838, Edgar Allan Poe, “Siope”, in Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque, volume 2, Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, published 1840, page 22:]
  • Many [of the fish-traps] were full of fish that raised foam as they splashed about. [1969, Elechi Amadi, chapter 5, in The Great Ponds,, London: Heinemann, published 1970, page 45:]
  • “Again. Tell it again!” cried Fagin, tightening his grasp on Sikes, and brandishing his other hand aloft as the foam flew from his lips. [1838, Boz [pseudonym; Charles Dickens], Oliver Twist; […], volume (please specify |volume=I, II, or III), London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 190:]
  • The horses were flecked with foam and their breathing was noisy. [1954, C. S. Lewis, chapter 9, in The Horse and His Boy, London: Collins, published 1974, page 118:]
  • a quart jug with a crown of foam upon it [1859, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter 21, in Adam Bede […], volume II, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book second, page 122:]
  • The last of the milk vanished in a swirl of foam and gurgling. [1938, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, chapter 15, in The Yearling, New York: Scribner, page 174:]
  • It was a very good palm-wine and powerful, for in spite of the palm fruit hung across the mouth of the pot to restrain the lively liquor, white foam rose and spilled over. [1958 June 17, Chinua Achebe, chapter 8, in Things Fall Apart, New York, N.Y.: Astor-Honor, published 1959, →OCLC, part 1, page 74:]
  • A slender thread of soft-drink foam traced her upper lip; [1988, Anne Tyler, Breathing Lessons, New York: Viking, Part 2, p. 167:]
  • […] she concentrated on the foam in the sink, tempering the water. [1964, Saul Bellow, Herzog, New York: Viking, page 255:]
  • Later we shared a bath with foam up to our ears, like they always discreetly have in films. [1988, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 7, in The Swimming-Pool Library, paperback edition, London: Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 163:]
  • His specialty is a mango foam.
  • A foam mat can soften a hard seat.
  • He is in Europe, across the foam.
  • How slowly does sad Time his feathers moue? / Hast thee O fayrest Planet to thy home / Within the Westerne fome: [1595, Edmund Spenser, Epithalamion:]
  • You must dwell beyond the foam, / But I am safe and live at home. [1885, Robert Louis Stevenson, “Foreign Children”, in A Child’s Garden of Verses, London: Longmans, Green, page 34:]
  • But as for me, I'd sooner be
  • A-roaring here at home
  • About the rolling, roaring life
  • Of them that sails the foam. [1918, Norman Lindsay, The Magic Pudding, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 171:]

Etymology

From Middle English fom, foom, from Old English fām, from Proto-West Germanic *faim, from Proto-Germanic *faimaz, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)poHy-m-os, from *(s)poH(y)- (“foam”). Cognate with German Feim (“foam”), Latin spūma (“foam”), Latin pūmex (“pumice”), Sanskrit फेन (phéna, “foam”), possibly Northern Kurdish fê (“epilepsy”). See: Middle English Nouns 'fom', German Nouns 'Feim', Latin Nouns 'spūma', Latin Nouns 'pūmex'.

Verbs referencing "foam"

English Nouns fumble.