foaming

English

Verb

foaming

1. present participle and gerund of foam
   • 1892, Walter Besant, “Prologue: Who is Edmund Gray?”, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 16:

     Athelstan Arundel walked home all the way, foaming and raging. No omnibus, cab, or conveyance ever built could contain a young man in such a rage. His mother lived at Pembridge Square, which is four good measured miles from Lincoln's Inn.

Noun

foaming (plural foamings)

1. A process that forms foam.
   • 1946, Stanford University. Dept. of Chemistry, Contributions, volume 17, page 1599:

     After three foamings, a steady state is reached.

Derived terms

• foaming agent