Usually means: Lightweight, porous, bubbly material structure.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. foam: Merriam-Webster
  2. foam, the foam: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. foam: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. foam: Collins English Dictionary
  5. foam: Vocabulary.com
  6. Foam, foam: Wordnik
  7. foam: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. foam: Wiktionary
  9. foam: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. foam: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. foam: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. foam: Dictionary.com
  13. foam (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. foam: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Foam (culinary), Foam (disambiguation), Foam: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Foam: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. foam: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. foam: Rhymezone
  19. foam: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. foam: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. foam: FreeDictionary.org
  22. foam: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. foam: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. foam: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. foam: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Epicurus.com Spanish Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. foam: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. foam: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. foam: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. FOAM: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. foam: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Foam: Easton Bible

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Chemistry Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Foam: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics
  3. FOAM: A Dictionary of Quaternary Acronyms and Abbreviations

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. foam: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. foam, the foam: Urban Dictionary

Tech (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Composite Terms (No longer online)
  3. K & A glossary (No longer online)
  4. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  5. Foam: Fiberglass Glossary
  6. Oil Analysis (No longer online)
  7. FOAM: Industry Terms for Fiberglass
  8. Glossary of Energy Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  A substance composed of a large collection of bubbles or their solidified remains, especially:
noun:  A collection of small bubbles created when the surface of a body of water is moved by tides, wind, etc.
noun:  A collection of small bubbles formed from bodily fluids such as saliva or sweat.
noun:  A collection of small bubbles on the surface of a liquid that is heated, fermented or carbonated.
noun:  A collection of small bubbles created by mixing soap with water.
noun:  (firefighting) A collection of small bubbles formed by mixing an extinguishing agent with water, used to cover and extinguish fires.
noun:  A material formed by trapping pockets of gas in a liquid or solid.
noun:  (figuratively, poetic) The sea.
noun:  Fury.
noun:  (African-American Vernacular, in the plural) Sneakers.
verb:  (intransitive) To form or emit foam.
verb:  (intransitive) To spew saliva as foam; to foam at the mouth.
verb:  (firefighting) To coat or cover with foam.

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