English Dictionary
◊ FOAMING
foaming
adj 1: emitting or filled with bubbles as from carbonation or
fermentation; "bubbling champagne"; "foamy (or frothy)
beer" [syn: {bubbling}, {bubbly}, {foamy}, {frothy}, {effervescing}]
2: producing or covered with lathery sweat or saliva from
exhaustion or disease; "the rabid animal's frothing mouth"
[syn: {foamy}, {frothing}]
3: covered with or resembling small bubbles as from being
agitated by beating or heating; "the bubbling candy
mixture"; "a cup of foaming cocoa"; "frothy milkshakes";
"frothy waves"; "spumy surf" [syn: {bubbling}, {foamy}, {frothing},
{spumous}, {spumy}, {sudsy}]
English Computing Dictionary
◊ DID YOU MEAN FARMING?
farming
[Adelaide University, Australia] What the heads of a disk
drive are said to do when they plow little furrows in the
magnetic media. Associated with a {head crash}. Typically
used as follows: "Oh no, the machine has just crashed; I hope
the hard drive hasn't gone {farming} again."
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