Foam vs. Lather

Foam and Lather Definitions
Foam
A colloidal dispersion of a gas in a liquid or solid medium, such as shaving cream, foam rubber, or a substance used to fight fires. A foam may be produced, especially on the surface of a liquid, by agitation or by a chemical reaction, such as fermentation.
Lather
A foam formed by soap or detergent agitated in water, as in washing or shaving.
Foam
Any of various light, porous, semirigid or spongy materials, usually the solidified form of a liquid full of gas bubbles, used as a building material or for thermal insulation or shock absorption, as in packaging.
Lather
Froth formed by profuse sweating, as on a horse.
Foam
Frothy saliva produced especially as a result of physical exertion or a pathological condition.
Lather
(Informal) A condition of anxious or heated discomposure; agitation
The students were in a lather over the proposed restrictions.
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Foam
The frothy sweat of a horse or other equine animal.
Lather
To spread with or as if with lather.
Foam
The sea.
Lather
(Informal) To give a beating to; whip.
Foam
To produce or issue as foam; froth.
Lather
To produce lather; foam.
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Foam
To produce foam from the mouth, as from exertion or a pathological condition.
Lather
To become coated with lather.
Foam
To be extremely angry; rage
Was foaming over the disastrous budget cuts.
Lather
The foam made by rapidly stirring soap and water.
Foam
To teem; seethe
A playground foaming with third graders.
Lather
Foam from profuse sweating, as of a horse.
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Foam
To cause to produce foam.
Lather
(countable) A state of agitation.
Foam
To cause to become foam.
Lather
(transitive) To cover with lather.
The young woman lathered her breasts with lavender-scented soap.
Foam
A substance composed of a large collection of bubbles or their solidified remains, especially:
Lather
(transitive) To beat or whip.
Foam
A collection of small bubbles created when the surface of a body of water is moved by tides, wind, etc.
Lather
(intransitive) To form lather or froth, as a horse does when profusely sweating.
Foam
A collection of small bubbles formed from bodily fluids such as saliva or sweat.
Lather
Foam or froth made by soap moistened with water.
Foam
A collection of small bubbles on the surface of a liquid that is heated, fermented or carbonated.
Lather
Foam from profuse sweating, as of a horse.
Foam
A collection of small bubbles created by mixing soap with water.
Lather
To spread over with lather; as, to lather the face.
Foam
(firefighting) A collection of small bubbles formed by mixing an extinguishing agent with water, used to cover and extinguish fires.
Lather
To form lather, or a froth like lather; to accumulate foam from profuse sweating, as a horse.
Foam
A material formed by trapping pockets of gas in a liquid or solid.
A foam mat can soften a hard seat.
Lather
To beat severely with a thong, strap, or the like; to flog.
Foam
The sea.
He is in Europe, across the foam.
Lather
The froth produced by soaps or detergents
Foam
Fury.
Lather
Agitation resulting from active worry;
Don't get in a stew
He's in a sweat about exams
Foam
(intransitive) To form or emit foam.
Lather
A workman who puts up laths
Foam
(intransitive) To spew saliva as foam; to foam at the mouth.
Lather
The foam resulting from excessive sweating (as on a horse)
Foam
(firefighting) To coat or cover with foam.
It used to be common practice to foam the runway prior to an emergency landing, in case a fuel-fed fire occurred.
Lather
Cover with soap;
Lather your body when you shower
Foam
The white substance, consisting of an aggregation of bubbles, which is formed on the surface of liquids, or in the mouth of an animal, by violent agitation or fermentation; froth; spume; scum; as, the foam of the sea.
Lather
Beat severely with a whip or rod;
The teacher often flogged the students
The children were severely trounced
Foam
To gather foam; to froth; as, the billows foam.
He foameth, and gnasheth with his teeth.
Lather
Form a lather;
The shaving cream lathered
Foam
To form foam, or become filled with foam; - said of a steam boiler when the water is unduly agitated and frothy, as because of chemical action.
Lather
Rub soap all over, usually with the purpose of cleaning
Foam
To cause to foam; as, to foam the goblet; also (with out), to throw out with rage or violence, as foam.
Foam
A mass of small bubbles formed in or on a liquid
Foam
A lightweight material in cellular form; made by introducing gas bubbles during manufacture
Foam
Form bubbles;
The boiling soup was frothing
The river was foaming
Sparkling water