different between suds vs surf

English

Etymology

From the plural of sud, a variant of sod (“a bubbling or boiling”), equivalent to sud +? -s. Related to seethe.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?dz/

Noun

suds (uncountable)

1. Lather; foam or froth formed by mixing soap and water.
2. (slang) beer

   We went out for some pizza and suds.

Usage notes

• Sometimes treated as uncountable ("too much suds") and sometimes as plural ("too many suds").

Derived terms

• oversuds
• soapsuds
• suds up

Translations

Verb

suds (third-person singular simple present sudses, present participle sudsing, simple past and past participle sudsed)

1. (transitive) To cover with, or as if with, soapsuds.

   We sudsed the car before washing it down until it gleamed like new.

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /s??f/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /s?f/
• Rhymes: -??(?)f
• Homophone: serf (in accents with the fern-fir-fur merger)

Etymology

1680s, perhaps from earlier suffe (c. 1590). Unknown, possibly related to sough, or possibly of Indo-Aryan origin, as the word was formerly a reference to the coast of India.The verb is from 1917.

Noun

surf (countable and uncountable, plural surfs)

1. Waves that break on an ocean shoreline.
   • 1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

     […] perhaps it was the look of the island, with its gray, melancholy woods, and wild stone spires, and the surf that we could both see and hear foaming and thundering on the steep beach […]

   • 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet Chapter 5

     'But when the surf fell enough for the boats to get ashore, and Greening held a lantern for me to jump down into the passage, after we had got the side out of the tomb, the first thing the light fell on at the bottom was a white face turned skyward.
2. An instance or session of riding a surfboard in the surf.

3. (Britain, dialect) The bottom of a drain.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

surf (third-person singular simple present surfs, present participle surfing, simple past and past participle surfed)

1. To ride a wave, usually on a surfboard.
2. (transitive, intransitive) To browse the Internet, television, etc.

Translations

Derived terms

• surfer (noun)

Derived terms

• (ride a wave): surfer, surfing, surfboard; crowdsurf, train-surf
• (browse the Internet): channel-surf, counter surf, cybersurf, netsurf, silver surfer

Anagrams

• Furs, furs

French

Noun

surf m (uncountable)

1. surfing

Derived terms

• surf des neiges

Related terms

• surfer
• surfeur
• surfeuse

Italian

Etymology

From English surf.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?su?f/, IPA^(key): /s??f/
• Hyphenation: sùrf

Noun

surf m (invariable)

1. (sports) surfing

Derived terms

• surfista
• surfare
• tavola da surf
• windsurf

Spanish

Etymology

From English surf.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?su?f/, [?su?f]

• IPA^(key): /?so?f/, [?so?f]

Noun

surf m (uncountable)

1. surfing

Derived terms