Bubble

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A thin, usually spherical or hemispherical film of liquid filled with air or gas: a soap bubble.
  • n. A globular body of air or gas formed within a liquid: air bubbles rising to the surface.
  • n. A pocket formed in a solid by air or gas that is trapped, as during cooling or hardening.
  • n. The act or process of forming bubbles.
  • n. A sound made by or as if by the forming and bursting of bubbles.
  • n. Something insubstantial, groundless, or ephemeral, especially:
  • n. A fantastic or impracticable idea or belief; an illusion: didn't want to burst the new volunteers' bubble.
  • n. A speculative scheme that comes to nothing: lost money in the real estate bubble.
  • n. Something light or effervescent: "Macon—though terribly distressed—had to fight down a bubble of laughter” ( Anne Tyler).
  • n. A usually transparent glass or plastic dome.
  • n. A protective, often isolating envelope or cover: "The Secret Service will talk of tightening protection, but no President wants to live in a bubble” ( Anthony Lewis).
  • verb-intransitive. To form or give off bubbles.
  • verb-intransitive. To move or flow with a gurgling sound: a brook bubbling along its course.
  • verb-intransitive. To rise to or as if to the surface; emerge: "Since then, the revolution has bubbled up again in many forms” ( Jonathan Schell).
  • verb-intransitive. To display irrepressible activity or emotion: bubbling over with excitement.
  • v. To cause to form bubbles.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A spherically contained volume of air, especially one made from soapy liquid.
  • n. A small spherical cavity in a solid material.
  • n. Anything resembling a hollow sphere.
  • n. A period of intense speculation in a market, causing prices to rise quickly to irrational levels as the metaphorical bubble expands, and then fall even more quickly as the bubble bursts.
  • n. Someone who has been ‘bubbled’ or fooled; a dupe.
  • n. a feverish upwelling
  • n. a feverish surge of speculation in a financial market, usually followed by a market crash (eg the South Sea Bubble).
  • n. a Greek (also: bubble and squeak)
  • n. emotional or\and physical atmosphere in which the subject is immersed; circumstances, ambience
  • v. To produce bubbles, to rise up in bubbles (such in foods cooking).
  • v. To cheat, delude.
  • v. To cry, weep.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A thin film of liquid inflated with air or gas.
  • n. A small quantity of air or gas within a liquid body.
  • n. A globule of air, or globular vacuum, in a transparent solid.
  • n. A small, hollow, floating bead or globe, formerly used for testing the strength of spirits.
  • n. The globule of air in the spirit tube of a level.
  • n. 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.
  • n. A person deceived by an empty project; a gull.
  • verb-intransitive. To rise in bubbles, as liquids when boiling or agitated; to contain bubbles.
  • verb-intransitive. To run with a gurgling noise, as if forming bubbles.
  • verb-intransitive. To sing with a gurgling or warbling sound.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A small vesicle of water or other fluid inflated with air or other gas, and floating on the surface of the fluid.
  • n. A small globule of air or other gas in or rising through a liquid.
  • n. The vesicle of air in the glass spirit-tube of a mechanics' level.
  • n. One of the small hollow beads of glass formerly used for testing the strength of spirits by the rate at which they rise after being plunged in them. See bead, 7.
  • n. Anything that wants firmness, substance, or permanence; that which is more specious than real; a vain project; a false show; a delusion; a trifle.
  • n. An inflated speculation; a delusive commercial project, especially one which is put forward as insuring extraordinary profits; hence, a financial imposition or fraud; a cheating trick: as, the South Sea bubble. See below.
  • n. . A person deceived by an empty project; a dupe.
  • n. In New England, hash or minced meat.
  • To rise in bubbles, as liquors when boiling or agitated; send up bubbles.
  • To run with a gurgling noise; gurgle: as, “bubbling fountains,”
  • To utter a bubbling or gurgling cry.
  • To cause to bubble.
  • To cheat; deceive or impose on; hoodwink; bamboozle.
  • To shed tears in a sniveling, blubbering, childish way.
  • n. Snot.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. rise in bubbles or as if in bubbles
  • v. flow in an irregular current with a bubbling noise
  • v. form, produce, or emit bubbles
  • n. a speculative scheme that depends on unstable factors that the planner cannot control
  • v. cause to form bubbles
  • n. an impracticable and illusory idea
  • n. a dome-shaped covering made of transparent glass or plastic
  • n. a hollow globule of gas (e.g., air or carbon dioxide)
  • v. expel gas from the stomach
  • Verb Form
    bubbled    bubbles    bubbling   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    arise    come up    go up    rise    uprise    lift    move up    sound    go    scheme   
    Cross Reference
    Form
    bubbled    bubbling    bubble over    bubble up   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    gull    gurgle   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Hubble    double    redouble    rubble    stubble    trouble   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    dome    cloud    wave    foam    spray    balloon    explosion    crystal    globe    sphere