Monday, July 18, 2011

And our winner is…

With 100% of the vote, Wurm takes it by a landslide.  Congrats Wurm, now you owe us 2 words by this Friday. 

Don’t forget this week’s words:

Aesthetic / Foam 

Here are some definitions to help in inspiring you…

 

aes·thet·ic
[es-thet-ik or, especially Brit., ees-] 
–adjective
1. pertaining to a sense of the beautiful or to the science of aesthetics.
2. having a sense of the beautiful; characterized by a
love of beauty.
3. pertaining to, involving, or concerned with pure emotion and sensation as opposed to pure intellectuality.
-noun
4. a philosophical
theory or idea of what is aesthetically valid at a given time and place: the clean lines, bare surfaces, and sense of space that bespeak the machine-age aesthetic.
5. Archaic . the study of the
nature of sensation.

foam
[fohm]
–noun
1. a collection of minute bubbles formed on the surface of a liquid by agitation, fermentation, etc.: foam on a glass of beer.
2. the froth of perspiration, caused by great exertion, formed on the skin of a
horse or other animal.
3. froth formed from saliva in the mouth, as in epilepsy and rabies.
4. a thick frothy substance, as shaving cream.
5. (in firefighting)
          a. a chemically produced substance that smothers the flames on a burning liquid by forming a layer of minute, stable, heat-resistant bubbles on the liquid's surface.
           b. the layer of bubbles so formed.
6. a dispersion of gas bubbles in a solid, as foam glass, foam rubber, polyfoam, or foamed metal.
7. Literary . the sea.
–verb (used without object)
8. to form or gather foam; emit foam; froth.

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