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# fizz

«fizz» in Mova's school dictionary: **To make lots of tiny gas bubbles with a hissing sound…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (fizz, fizzes, fizzed, fizzing); noun (fizz)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (verb) To make lots of tiny gas bubbles with a hissing sound, like a fizzy drink. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fizz/#m1)

2) (noun) The bubbles in a drink, or the hissing sound. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fizz/#m2)

3) (noun, informal) Excitement or energy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fizz/#m3)

4) (noun, UK informal) A fizzy drink, sometimes champagne. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fizz/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In science: vinegar and bicarbonate of soda fizz because they make carbon dioxide gas. Fizzy drinks lose their fizz when left open. In stories: «The room fizzed with excitement». Phrase: «fizz out» = end weakly.

### examples

- The tablet fizzed in the water. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fizz/#x1)
- My lemonade has lost its fizz. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fizz/#x2)
- Mix vinegar and baking soda and watch it fizz. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fizz/#x3)
- The firework fizzed and then went out. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fizz/#x4)
- The classroom fizzed with excitement. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fizz/#x5)
- Shake the bottle and the fizz will spray out. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fizz/#x6)
- They opened some fizz to celebrate. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fizz/#x7)
- Whirr-r-r, how they fizzed and blazed! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fizz/#x8)

### note

Double z. Uncountable noun. Adjective: fizzy. Fizz = carbon dioxide gas bubbles. Safety: don't shake fizzy drinks before opening.

### In the corpora

- [When the fizz stops, one of the two has been used up.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/18-the-fizz-vinegar-lemon-and-soda/2/)
- [Add more of whichever ran out and the fizzing starts again: that is how you can find out which one it was.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/18-the-fizz-vinegar-lemon-and-soda/3/)
- [Warm vinegar fizzes harder, because warmth makes particles move faster and meet more often.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/18-the-fizz-vinegar-lemon-and-soda/7/)
- [Vinegar (an acid) and baking soda (an alkali) react to make carbon dioxide gas, which makes the fizz.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/18-the-fizz-vinegar-lemon-and-soda/9/)
- [Eggshell is calcium carbonate; in vinegar it fizzes away over days and leaves a rubbery egg held by its thin skin.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/18-the-fizz-vinegar-lemon-and-soda/18/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «fizz» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fizz/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.