About The Word Bubble

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Bubble

Bubble Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Bubble?
[n] a dome-shaped covering made of transparent glass or plastic
[n] an impracticable and illusory idea; "he didn't want to burst the newcomer's bubble" [n] a speculative scheme that depends on unstable factors that the planner cannot control; "his proposal was nothing but a house of cards"; "a real estate bubble" [n] a hollow globule of gas (e.g., air or carbon dioxide) [v] expel gas from the stomach; "In China it is polite to burp at the table" [v] form produce, or emit bubbles, as of liquids or gases; "The soup was bubbling" [v] flow in an irregular current with a bubbling noise, as of water; "babbling brooks" Synonyms | Synonyms for Bubble: babble | belch | burble | burp | eruct | guggle | gurgle | house of cards | ripple Related Terms | Find terms related to Bubble: air | air pocket | airy hope | airy nothing | apparition | autism | babble | ball | balloon | be enthusiastic | bilge | bladder | blain | bleb | blister | blob | blubber | boil | boil over | boll | bolus | boss | bow | brainchild | bubble over | bubble up | bubbles | bulb | bulbil | bulblet | bulge | bulla | bump | bunch | burble | burl | button | cahot | carbonation | carry on over | chaff | chimera | china | chine | chip | churn | clump | cobweb | condyle | convex | cork | daydream | deception | delirium | deluded belief | delusion | dereism | dowel | down | dream | dream vision | dreamland | dreamworld | droplet | dust | ear | effervesce | effervescence | eggshell | eidolon | ellipsoid | enthuse | ephemera | ephemeral | ephemerid | ephemerides | ephemeris | ether | fairy | false belief | fancy | fantasque | fantasy | feather | ferment | fiction | figment | fizz | fizzle | flange | flap | flue | fluff | foam | froth | fuzz | gall | geoid | glass | glass house | globe | globelet | globoid | globule | glomerulus | gnarl | go on over | gob | gobbet | golden dream | gossamer | guggle | gurgle | gush | gush over | hallucination | handle | hill | hiss | house of cards | hump | hunch | ice | idle fancy | ignis fatuus | illusion | imagery | imagination | imagining | insubstantial image | invention | jog | joggle | knob | knot | knur | knurl | lap | lather | lip | loop | lump | maggot | make much of | make-believe | matchwood | mayfly | misbelief | misconception | mist | moil | mole | mote | mountain | myth | nevus | nub | nubbin | nubble | oblate spheroid | old paper | orb | orbit | orblet | papilloma | parchment | peg | pellet | phantasm | phantom | piecrust | pipe | pipe dream | plash | plop | prolate spheroid | purl | quixotic ideal | rainbow | rave | rave about | rhapsodize | rib | ridge | ring | ripple | romance | rondure | seethe | self-deceit | self-deception | self-delusion | shadow | shoulder | sick fancy | simmer | slosh | smoke | smolder | snows of yesteryear | sparkle | sphere | spheroid | spherule | spine | spirit | splash | sponge | spume | stir | straw | stud | style | suds | swash | swish | tab | take on over | thick-coming fancies | thin air | thistledown | trick | trill | trip | tubercle | tubercule | unreal hope | utopia | vapor | verruca | vesicle | vision | wale | wart | wash | welt | whim | whimsy | wildest dreams | work | wrong impression See Also | air bubble | breathe | breathe | bubble over | covering | effervesce | emit | emit | fancy | fantasy | fizz | foam | foam | froth | froth | globule | go | illusion | overflow | pass off | pass off | phantasy | scheme | soap bubble | sound | sparkle | spill over | strategy Bubble In Webster's Dictionary \Bub"ble\, n. [Cf. D. bobbel, Dan. boble, Sw. bubbla. Cf.
{Blob}, n.]
1. A thin film of liquid inflated with air or gas; as, a soap
bubble; bubbles on the surface of a river.
Beads of sweat have stood upon thy brow, Like
bubbles in a late disturbed stream. --Shak.
2. A small quantity of air or gas within a liquid body; as,
bubbles rising in champagne or a["e]rated waters.
3. A globule of air, or globular vacuum, in a transparent
solid; as, bubbles in window glass, or in a lens.
4. A small, hollow, floating bead or globe, formerly used for
testing the strength of spirits.
5. The globule of air in the spirit tube of a level.
6. Anything that wants firmness or solidity; that which is
more specious than real; a false show; a cheat or fraud; a
delusive scheme; an empty project; a dishonest
speculation; as, the South Sea bubble.
Then a soldier . . . Seeking the bubble reputation
Even in the cannon's mouth. --Shak.
7. A person deceived by an empty project; a gull. [Obs.]
``Ganny's a cheat, and I'm a bubble.'' --Prior.
\Bub"ble\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Bubbled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Bubbling}.] [Cf. D. bobbelen, Dan. boble. See {Bubble}, n.] 1. To rise in bubbles, as liquids when boiling or agitated; to contain bubbles. The milk that bubbled in the pail. --Tennyson. 2. To run with a gurgling noise, as if forming bubbles; as, a bubbling stream. --Pope. 3. To sing with a gurgling or warbling sound. At mine ear Bubbled the nightingale and heeded not. --Tennyson. |
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