'Bubble' definitions:
Definition of 'bubble'
(from WordNet)
noun
A hollow globule of gas (e.g., air or carbon dioxide)
noun
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" [syn: house of cards, bubble]
noun
An impracticable and illusory idea; "he didn't want to burst the newcomer's bubble"
noun
A dome-shaped covering made of transparent glass or plastic
verb
Form, produce, or emit bubbles; "The soup was bubbling"
verb
Flow in an irregular current with a bubbling noise; "babbling brooks" [syn: ripple, babble, guggle, burble, bubble, gurgle]
verb
Rise in bubbles or as if in bubbles; "bubble to the surface"
verb
Cause to form bubbles; "bubble gas through a liquid"
verb
Definition of 'Bubble'
From: GCIDE
- Bubble \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. [1913 Webster]
- The milk that bubbled in the pail. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To run with a gurgling noise, as if forming bubbles; as, a bubbling stream. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To sing with a gurgling or warbling sound. [1913 Webster]
- At mine ear Bubbled the nightingale and heeded not. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Bubble'
From: GCIDE
- Bubble \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. [1913 Webster]
- Beads of sweat have stood upon thy brow, Like bubbles in a late disturbed stream. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A small quantity of air or gas within a liquid body; as, bubbles rising in champagne or a["e]rated waters. [1913 Webster]
- 3. A globule of air, or globular vacuum, in a transparent solid; as, bubbles in window glass, or in a lens. [1913 Webster]
- 4. A small, hollow, floating bead or globe, formerly used for testing the strength of spirits. [1913 Webster]
- 5. The globule of air in the spirit tube of a level. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- Then a soldier . . . Seeking the bubble reputation Even in the cannon's mouth. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 7. A person deceived by an empty project; a gull. [Obs.] "Ganny's a cheat, and I'm a bubble." --Prior. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'bubble'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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
Words containing 'Bubble'
- Bubbled,
- Bubbling,
- Bubbly,
- bubble over,
- bubble up,
- Bubble shell,
- Bubbling Jock,
- Soap bubble,
- air bubble,
- bubble and squeak,
- bubble bath,
- bubble chamber,
- bubble dance,
- bubble gum,
- bubble pack,
- form bubbles,
- Hubble-bubble,
- bubble gum dermatitis,
- bubble jet printer,
- hubbly-bubbly,
- magnetic bubble memory,
- bubble-jet printer