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# froth

«froth» in Mova's school dictionary: **lots of small bubbles on top of a liquid, like foam on a…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (froth — uncountable); verb (froth, froths, frothed, frothing)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Froth is lots of small bubbles on top of a liquid, like foam on a milkshake. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/froth/#m1)

2) To froth means to make or have froth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/froth/#m2)

3) Froth can mean something light and fun but not very important, like froth in a story or show. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/froth/#m3)

4) (informal) To froth at the mouth means to be extremely angry. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/froth/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life: frothy coffee, milkshakes, bubble baths; in science, bubbles of gas trapped in liquid; in stories, an angry character frothing at the mouth; phrases: froth up, froth at the mouth.

### examples

- The milkshake had a thick froth on top. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/froth/#x1)
- Waves left froth on the sand. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/froth/#x2)
- Mum frothed the milk for her coffee. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/froth/#x3)
- The angry man was frothing at the mouth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/froth/#x4)
- That film is just froth, but it's fun. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/froth/#x5)

### note

Uncountable. Adjective: frothy. Similar: foam, bubbles.

### In the corpora

- [Pour vinegar onto a heap of baking soda and it froths up like a witch's cauldron.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/18-the-fizz-vinegar-lemon-and-soda/0/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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