bubble
IPA: bˈʌbʌɫ
noun
- A spherically contained volume of air or other gas, especially one made from soapy liquid.
- A small spherical cavity in a solid material.
- (by extension) Anything resembling a hollow sphere.
- (figurative) Anything lacking firmness or solidity; a cheat or fraud; an empty project.
- (economics) 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.
- (figurative) The emotional and/or physical atmosphere in which the subject is immersed.
- An officer's station in a prison dormitory, affording views on all sides.
- (obsolete) Someone who has been ‘bubbled’ or fooled; a dupe.
- A small, hollow, floating bead or globe, formerly used for testing the strength of spirits.
- The globule of air in the chamber of a spirit level.
- (Cockney rhyming slang) A laugh.
- (Cockney rhyming slang) A Greek.
- (computing, historical) Any of the small magnetized areas that make up bubble memory.
- (poker) The point in a poker tournament when the last player without a prize loses all their chips and leaves the game, leaving only players that are going to win prizes. (e.g., if the last remaining 9 players win prizes, then the point when the 10th player leaves the tournament)
- A group of people who are in quarantine together.
- (television, slang) A bulb or lamp; the part of a lighting assembly that actually produces the light.
- Short for travel bubble. [(neologism) An arrangement between two (or more) countries, states, or other administrative regions, that allows free travel of residents between them while otherwise keeping their borders closed to travellers from outside the bubble.]
verb
- (intransitive) To produce bubbles, to rise up in bubbles (such as in foods cooking or liquids boiling).
- (intransitive, figurative) To churn or foment, as if wishing to rise to the surface.
- (intransitive, figurative) To rise through a medium or system, similar to the way that bubbles rise in liquid.
- (transitive, archaic) To cheat, delude.
- (intransitive, Scotland and Northern England) To cry, weep.
- (transitive) To pat a baby on the back so as to cause it to belch.
- (transitive) To cause to feel as if bubbling or churning.
- (transitive) To express in a bubbly or lively manner.
- (transitive) To form into a protruding round shape.
- (transitive) To cover with bubbles.
- (transitive) To bubble in; to mark a response on a form by filling in a circular area (‘bubble’).
- (computing) To apply a filter bubble, as to search results.
- (intransitive) To join together in a support bubble
- (transitive, UK, slang) To grass (report criminal activity to the authorities).
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Examples of "bubble" in Sentences
- Bubble perms appear modish.
- The children took a bubble bath.
- The air forms bubbles in the pipe.
- The iridescent bubbles were beautiful.
- The bubble is pressed to roll the dice.
- The lights also illuminate the bubbles.
- The surface of the pool roils and bubbles.
- It was a bit of froth and bubble and not needed.
- The locations of the bubbles are detected and recorded.
- The Spurs for the title bubble did not stay long inflated.
- Try combining the word bubble sticker with the text tool for a comic effect.
- _Bubble, bubble, bubble, bubble_, came from the basin as the boy thrust in his face.
- She also posted a photo of herself and her pit bull named Freedom with a word bubble describing the ad.
- A word bubble appears with the Chinese character for the sigh (哎), virtually the same as Ai's surname (艾).
- When Obama sells 10 tons to lower the national debt those stuck holding gold will know what the term bubble means.
- In a word bubble above “Ali,” the artist Ali printed in crude block letters with eccentric punctuation, “He, was not the champ, he was a tramp.”
- Of tequila, maraschino, Absinthe and Punt y Mes, the online menu features a scribble of a word bubble that speaks: "Come, sit down, let me cure you by getting you buzzed ...."
- "After the housing bubble, people are a little too quick to assign the word bubble these days," says Colvin, whose two funds and separately managed accounts hold 2,300 acres of farmland in Iowa, Minnesota and South Dakota valued at more than $10 million.
- But This Might Be Misguided After being buffeted by the dot-com, housing and credit bubbles -- not to mention the Chinese stock-market bubble -- there is a readiness by people on Wall Street and elsewhere to ascribe the term bubble to all sorts of things.
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