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globule
English
Etymology
From French globule, from Latin globulus, from globus (“globe”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /??l?bju?l/
- (General American) IPA(key): /??l?bjul/
- Hyphenation: glob?ule
Noun
globule (plural globules)
- A small round particle of substance; a drop.
Translations
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin globulus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?l?.byl/
Noun
globule m (plural globules)
- globule
- blood cell
Derived terms
- globule blanc
- globule rouge
Descendants
- ? English: globule
Further reading
- “globule” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Latin
Noun
globule
- vocative singular of globulus
Romanian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [??lobule]
Noun
globule n
- vocative singular of glob
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foam
English
Etymology
From Middle English fome, fom, from Old English f?m, from Proto-Germanic *faimaz, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)poHy-m-os, from *(s)poH(y)- (“foam”). Cognate with German Feim (“foam”), Latin sp?ma (“foam”), Latin p?mex (“pumice”), Sanskrit ??? (phéna, “foam”), possibly Northern Kurdish fê (“epilepsy”).
Pronunciation
- (General American) enPR: f?m, IPA(key): /fo?m/
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: f?m, IPA(key): /f??m/
- Rhymes: -??m
Noun
foam (countable and uncountable, plural foams)
- A substance composed of a large collection of bubbles or their solidified remains.
- A substance formed by trapping pockets of gas in a liquid or solid.
- (by extension) Sea foam; (figuratively, poetic) the sea.
- Fury.
Derived terms
- foamflower
- foaminess
- foamless
- foam rubber
- foamy
- shaving foam
- spray foam
Translations
Verb
foam (third-person singular simple present foams, present participle foaming, simple past and past participle foamed)
- (intransitive) To form or emit foam.
- c. 1606, William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, Act II, Scene 6, [1]
- […] And that is it
- Hath made me rig my navy; at whose burthen
- The anger'd ocean foams; with which I meant
- To scourge the ingratitude that despiteful Rome
- Cast on my noble father.
- 1706, Isaac Watts, “The Day of Judgement,” lines 1-2, [2]
- When the fierce North-wind with his airy forces
- Rears up the Baltic to a foaming fury;
- 1908, G. K. Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday, Chapter 8, [3]
- They were both silent for a measure of moments, and then Syme's speech came with a rush, like the sudden foaming of champagne.
- c. 1606, William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, Act II, Scene 6, [1]
- (intransitive) To spew saliva as foam, to foam at the mouth.
- c. 1591, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 3, Act II, Scene 1, [4]
- […] to London will we march amain,
- And once again bestride our foaming steeds,
- And once again cry ‘Charge upon our foes!’
- But never once again turn back and fly.
- 1611, King James Version of the Bible, Mark 9:17-18, [5]
- Master, I have brought unto thee my son, which hath a dumb spirit; And wheresoever he taketh him, he teareth him: and he foameth, and gnasheth with his teeth, and pineth away.
- 1748, John Cleland, Fanny Hill, Letter the First, Part 1, [6]
- But I was talking to the wind; for whether my tears, my attitude, or the disorder of my dress prov'd fresh incentives, or whether he was not under the dominion of desires he could not bridle, but snorting and foaming with lust and rage, he renews his attack, seizes me, and again attempts to extend and fix me on the settee […]
- c. 1591, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 3, Act II, Scene 1, [4]
Derived terms
- foam at the mouth
- foamer
- foaming
- foam up
Translations
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