Bubble
['bʌb(ə)l] or ['bʌbl]
Definition
(noun.) a dome-shaped covering made of transparent glass or plastic.
(noun.) an impracticable and illusory idea; 'he didn't want to burst the newcomer's bubble'.
(noun.) a hollow globule of gas (e.g., air or carbon dioxide).
(verb.) form, produce, or emit bubbles; 'The soup was bubbling'.
(verb.) cause to form bubbles; 'bubble gas through a liquid'.
(verb.) rise in bubbles or as if in bubbles; 'bubble to the surface'.
Checked by Freda--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A thin film of liquid inflated with air or gas; as, a soap bubble; bubbles on the surface of a river.
(n.) A small quantity of air or gas within a liquid body; as, bubbles rising in champagne or aerated waters.
(n.) A globule of air, or globular vacuum, in a transparent solid; as, bubbles in window glass, or in a lens.
(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; as, the South Sea bubble.
(n.) A person deceived by an empty project; a gull.
(n.) To rise in bubbles, as liquids when boiling or agitated; to contain bubbles.
(n.) To run with a gurgling noise, as if forming bubbles; as, a bubbling stream.
(n.) To sing with a gurgling or warbling sound.
Typed by Clyde
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Water bladder.[2]. Trifle, bagatelle, small matter.[3]. Cheat, delusion, hoax, false show.
Edited by Dwight
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Trifle, toy, fancy, conceit, vision, dream, froth, trash
ANT:Acquisition, prize, treasury_reality, substance, verity, jewel, good,advantage
Typed by Lesley
Definition
n. a bladder of water blown out with air: anything empty: a cheating scheme.—adj. unsubstantial deceptive.—v.i. to rise in bubbles.—v.t. to cheat with bubble schemes:—pr.p. bubb′ling; pa.p. bubb′led.—adj. Bubb′ly.—n. Bubb′ly-jock a Scotch name for a turkey-cock.—Bubble and squeak meat and cabbage fried together.—To bubble over as of a pot boiling with anger mirth &c.
Editor: Val
Examples
- But it was like a bubble floating in the darkness. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- When they were silent again, nothing stirred in the stillness but the bubble and the crackle of the flames. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- What a thing is a child's preference--what a bubble! Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- At 212 it can be put on rods and there is no bubble. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Everything seemed to be thrown into the melting pot, and it seemed to Ursula they were all witches, helping the pot to bubble. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Let the young man have his way, my dear; don't wait till the bubble's off the wine. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- When the nitrogen was exhausted and the redundant oxygen removed, only a small bubble of air remained unabsorbed. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- But if carbon and zinc are used, a current is again produced, the zinc dissolving away as before, and bubbles collecting on the carbon plate. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The signals of his telegraph consisted of the bubbles of gas arising from the decomposition of water, during the action of the electric current. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- When chemical action between the water and carbide has ceased, and gas bubbles have stopped forming, slaked lime is all that is left of the dark gray crystals which were put into the water. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Examination of the cell shows that the copper plate is covered with hydrogen bubbles. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- As soon as the plates are immersed in the acid solution, minute bubbles of gas rise from the zinc strip and it begins to waste away slowly. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- In the can system the water is frozen from all four sides to the center, and imprisons in the center any air bubbles or impurities that may exist in the water. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- White specks and bubbles are common flaws, which vary in size and which may be best illustrated by looking at a pane of glass in your window. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Lily received this with fresh appreciation; his nonsense was like the bubbling of her inner mood. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- And there's no more benevolence bubbling out of him, than out of a ninepin. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- She paused to readjust the bottle to the child's bubbling mouth. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- If there was danger of an upheaval, we would be warned by the hot springs, but they are just bubbling as usual. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- He pointed to a light, glimmering below us; and, at the same moment, I heard through the stillness of the evening the bubbling of a stream. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- A bubbling spring prattles over stones on one side, and a plantation of a few elms and beeches, hardly deserve, and yet continue the name of wood. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- And history goes on to presume that as the boy watched the bubbling kettle he was studying the laws of steam and making ready to put them to good use some day. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Before her was a small cauldron standing over a low fire and in it bubbled a thick, reddish, tarry mass. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Beneath that black mud, bubbled the hot springs of Bath. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
Editor: Verna