FIZZ | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary

Meaning of fizz in English

(Definition of fizz from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
(Definition of fizz from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of fizz

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The gaseous propellant decomposes into simpler molecules in a surrounding "fizz zone".
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Carbonated water (soda), which has been left out so that the carbonation fizz is gone, is useful if nothing else is available.
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In these variations, sometimes only the actual digit is replaced, so 23 becomes twenty-fizz and 50 is buzzty.
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The oceans may play a key role, emitting carbon dioxide when they warm as carbonated beverages lose fizz as they warm and absorbing it as they cool.
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Numbers divisible by both become "fizz buzz".
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Instead of replacing numbers that have 3 or 5 as a factor, the game can be played by replacing numbers containing the digit 3 or 5 with fizz or buzz.
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One word (pat) was primer level, and one word (fizz) did not appear on the list.
The timbre of the natural piano was apparent throughout, with only a slight distortion and fizz at the beginning of each note for anything marked forte and above.
Staff are fizzing with ideas, which we must allow them to try out.
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They are often fizzing with ideas.
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His unrestrained ebullience from the fizz of his champagne must really have been relief from weariness.
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I am particularly grateful for the stance that he has taken, and for the fizz that he has given to it.
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I must say that the fizz seems to be going out of the attack.
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I was not quite clear sometimes whether the fizz was mineral water or champagne.
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I agree that there has been a good deal of fizz in this bottle.
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Translations of fizz

in Chinese (Traditional)
産生氣體, (液體)起泡並發噝噝聲, 聲音…
in Chinese (Simplified)
产生气体, (液体)起泡并发咝咝声, 声音…
in Spanish
burbujear, burbujeo, efervescencia…
in Portuguese
borbulhar, espumante, efervescência…
in more languages
in Turkish
in French
in Dutch
in Czech
in Danish
in Indonesian
in Thai
in Vietnamese
in Polish
in Swedish
in Malay
in German
in Norwegian
in Ukrainian
in Russian
kabarcık, foşurdama, köpürük…
pétiller, pétillement…
opbruisen, gebruis…
šumět, bublinky, šumění…
bruse, boble, perle…
bergelembung, gelegak…
ปล่อยฟองฟู่, เสียงดังฟู่…
xèo xèo, xì xì, tiếng xì xì…
gaz, bąbelki, musowanie…
brusa, bubbla, skum…
berbuih, desis…
sprudeln, das Sprudeln…
bruse, perle, futt…
шипіти, грати, шипіння…
пузырьки газа, шипение (напитка)…
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