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English

Image:Soap Bubble - foliage background - iridescent colours - Traquair 040801.jpg|thumb|right|Soap bubbles.

Etymology

Partly imitative, also influenced by .

Pronunciation

  • An audio transcript can be found at en-us-bubble.ogg
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Noun

  1. A spherically contained volume of air, especially one made from soapy liquid.
  2. A small spherical cavity in a solid material.
  3. Anything resembling a hollow sphere.
  4. 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.


Translations

  • Czech: {{t-|cs|bublina|f}}
  • Finnish:
  • French: {{t+|fr|bulle|f}}
  • German: {{t+|de|Blase|f}}
  • Hebrew: {{t-|he|בועה|f|tr=bu'a|sc=Hebr}}
  • Hungarian:
  • Kurdish: {{t|ku|بڵق|sc=KUchar}}
  • Latin: {{t-|la|bulla|f}}
  • Portuguese: {{t-|pt|bolha|f}}
  • Russian: {{tr|ru|пузырь|m|sc=Cyrl|tr=puzýr'}}
  • Spanish: {{t+|es|burbuja|f}}, {{t-|es|pompa|f}}
  • Swedish: {{t-|sv|bubbla|c}},
  • Telugu: {{t|te|బుడగ|tr=buDaga|sc=Telu}}
  • Finnish:
  • French: {{t+|fr|trou|m}}
  • German: {{t+|de|Blase|f}}
  • Kurdish: {{t|ku|بڵق|sc=KUchar}}
  • Portuguese: {{t-|pt|bolha|f}}
  • Russian: {{tr|ru|пузырёк|m|sc=Cyrl|tr=puzyr'ók}}
  • Telugu: {{t|te|బుడగ|tr=buDaga|sc=Telu}}
  • Finnish:
  • German: {{t+|de|Blase|f}}
  • Kurdish: {{t|ku|بڵق|sc=KUchar}}
  • Portuguese: {{t-|pt|bolha|f}}
  • Russian: {{tr|ru|пузырь|m|sc=Cyrl|tr=puzýr'}}, {{tr|ru|пузырёк|m|sc=Cyrl|tr=puzyr'ók}}
  • Telugu: {{t|te|బుడగ|tr=buDaga|sc=Telu}}
  • Finnish:
  • French: {{t+|fr|bulle|f}}
  • Hebrew: {{t-|he|בועה|f|tr=bu'a|sc=Hebr}}
  • Telugu: {{t|te|బుడగ|tr=buDaga|sc=Telu}}

Related terms

Verb

  1. To produce bubbles, to rise up in bubbles (such in foods cooking).
  2. To cheat, delude.
  3. {{intransitive|Scotland|and|Northern England}} To cry, weep.


Quotations

Translations

  • Finnish: ,
  • German:
  • Hungarian: ,
  • Korean: {{t|ko|부글거리다|tr=bugeul-georida|sc=Hang}}
  • Kurdish: {{t|ku|بڵق کردن|sc=KUchar}}, {{t|ku|بڵقه‌بڵق کردن|sc=KUchar}}
  • Portuguese:
  • Spanish:
  • Swedish:

See: cheat

See: weep

References

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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English 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]
GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English 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]
WordNet bubble
n 1: a hollow globule of gas (e.g., air or carbon dioxide)
2: 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}]
3: an impracticable and illusory idea; "he didn't want to burst
the newcomer's bubble"
4: a dome-shaped covering made of transparent glass or plastic
v 1: form, produce, or emit bubbles; "The soup was bubbling"
2: flow in an irregular current with a bubbling noise;
"babbling brooks" [syn: ripple, babble, guggle, burble,
gurgle]
3: expel gas from the stomach; "In China it is polite to burp
at the table" [syn: burp, belch, eruct]
Moby Dictionary
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


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