bubble

[Bub·ble]

A bubble is a floating ball of air. You can also blow a bubble with gum. If you’re in your own little bubble, you’re living in a fantasy, separated from the rest of the world by a thin layer of your imagination.

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

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 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"

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

Verb
expel gas from the stomach; "In China it is polite to burp at the table"

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Verb
form, produce, or emit bubbles; "The soup was bubbling"

Verb
flow in an irregular current with a bubbling noise; "babbling brooks"


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.

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To run with a gurgling noise, as if forming bubbles; as, a bubbling stream.

n.
To sing with a gurgling or warbling sound.


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.
Beads of sweat have stood upon thy brow, Like bubbles in a late disturbed stream.
2. A small quantity of air or gas within a liquid body; as, bubbles rising in champagne or a'89rated waters. 3. A globule of air, or globular vacuum, in a transparent solid; as, bubbles in window glass, or in a lens. 4. A small, hollow, floating bead or globe, formerly used for testing the strength of spirits. 5. The globule of air in the spirit tube of a level. 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.
Then a soldier . . . Seeking the bubble reputation Even in the cannon's mouth.
7. A person deceived by an empty project; a gull. [Obs.] "Ganny's a cheat, and I'm a bubble." Prior.

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.
The milk that bubbled in the pail.
2. To run with a gurdling noise, as if forming bubbles; as, a bubbling stream. Pope. 3. To sing with a gurgling or warbling sound.
At mine ear Bubbled the nightingale and heeded not.

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

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

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Usage Examples

After I finished high school I went to Hong Kong and Thailand and spent some time there. Just to get that whole experience of being out of the bubble that I was in from high school in Vancouver, to be able to travel around and be on your own was an amazing experience.

I love doing normal things - movies, shopping, going out with friends, writing, reading, taking hot bubble baths - that's a big one for relaxation. I also love to go to art and history museums.

It's not an accident that both my sister and I are writers. Our parents created an accidental Petri dish. My family has great storytellers, and I grew up in a very funny, conversational house and didn't have television. This small family farm was a bubble world that didn't have much to do with reality.

We had a booming stock market in 1929 and then went into the world's greatest depression. We have a booming stock market in 1999. Will the bubble somehow burst, and then we enter depression? Well, some things are not different.

Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.

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Other Usage Examples

Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

I think, my generation, it's hard to have hope when you got a $700-trillion derivatives debt to pay and a bubble about to explode and $500 trillion worth of GDP.

I get caught up in my bubble of reading, writing, or music.

No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher.

When you become a parent, or a teacher, you turn into a manager of this whole system. You become the person controlling the bubble of innocence around a child, regulating it.

I'm interested to go other places, I've been the boy in the bubble since we've been shooting, I need to go travel a little bit, see where the action is, other than going to see family, of course.

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