Lexic.us

Definition of Bubble

1. Verb. Form, produce, or emit bubbles. "The soup was bubbling"

2. Noun. A hollow globule of gas (e.g., air or carbon dioxide).

3. Verb. Flow in an irregular current with a bubbling noise. "Babbling brooks"

4. Noun. A speculative scheme that depends on unstable factors that the planner cannot control. "A real estate bubble"

5. Verb. Rise in bubbles or as if in bubbles. "Bubble to the surface"

6. Noun. An impracticable and illusory idea. "He didn't want to burst the newcomer's bubble"

7. Verb. Cause to form bubbles. "Bubble gas through a liquid"

8. Noun. A dome-shaped covering made of transparent glass or plastic.

9. Verb. Expel gas from the stomach. "In China it is polite to burp at the table"

Definition of Bubble

1. n. A thin film of liquid inflated with air or gas; as, a soap bubble; bubbles on the surface of a river.

2. v. i. To rise in bubbles, as liquids when boiling or agitated; to contain bubbles.

Definition of Bubble

1. Noun. A spherically contained volume of air, especially one made from soapy liquid. ¹

2. Noun. A small spherical cavity in a solid material. ¹

3. Noun. Anything resembling a hollow sphere. ¹

4. Noun. (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. ¹

5. Noun. (obsolete) Someone who has been ‘bubbled’ or fooled; a dupe. ¹

6. Noun. (figuratively) a feverish upwelling ¹

7. Noun. (figuratively) a feverish surge of speculation in a financial market, usually followed by a market crash (eg the w:South Sea Bubble). ¹

8. Noun. (Cockney rhyming slang) a Greek (''also:'' bubble and squeak) ¹

9. Noun. (figurative) emotional or\and physical atmosphere in which the subject is immersed; circumstances, ambience ¹

10. Verb. (intransitive) To produce bubbles, to rise up in bubbles (such in foods cooking). ¹

11. Verb. (transitive archaic) To cheat, delude. ¹

12. Verb. (intransitive Scotland and Northern England) To cry, weep. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Bubble

1. to form bubbles (bodies of gas contained within a liquid) [v -BLED, -BLING, -BLES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bubble

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bubber bubbers bubbes bubbies bubbing bubble (current term) bubble-head bubble-heads bubble-jet printer bubble and squeak

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