Bubble

Definition: Bubble

Bubble

Noun

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".

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.

Verb

1. Form produce, or emit bubbles, as of liquids or gases; "The soup was bubbling".

2. Flow in an irregular current with a bubbling noise, as of water; "babbling brooks".

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

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "bubble" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Environment

Industry

Literature

Mechanical Engineering

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Bubble

Deception

Trick, cheat, wile, blind, feint, plant, bubble, fetch, catch, chicane, juggle, reach, hocus, bite; card sharping, stacked deck, loaded dice, quick shuffle, double dealing, dealing seconds, dealing from the bottom of the deck; artful dodge, swindle; tricks upon travelers; stratagem; (artifice); confidence trick, fake, hoax; theft; ballot-box stuffing barney, brace game, bunko game, drop game, gum game, panel game; shell game, thimblerig; skin game.

Error

Illusion, delusion; snare; false impression, false idea; bubble; self-decit, self-deception; mists of error.

Levity

Feather, dust, mote, down, thistle, down, flue, cobweb, gossamer, straw, cork, bubble, balloon; float, buoy; ether, air.

Littleness

Animalcule, monad, mite, insect, emmet, fly, midge, gnat, shrimp, minnow, worm, maggot, entozoon; bacteria; infusoria; microzoa; phytozoaria; microbe; grub; tomtit, runt, mouse, small fry; millet seed, mustard seed; barleycorn; pebble, grain of sand; molehill, button, bubble.

River

Verb: flow, run; meander; gush, pour, spout, roll, jet, well, issue; drop, drip, dribble, plash, spirtle, trill, trickle, distill, percolate; stream, overflow, inundate, deluge, flow over, splash, swash; guggle, murmur, babble, bubble, purl, gurgle, sputter, spurt, spray, regurgitate; ooze, flow out. (egress).

Transientness

Noun: transience, transientness; Adjective: evanescence, impermanence, fugacity, caducity, mortality, span; nine days' wonder, bubble, Mayfly; spurt; flash in the pan; temporary arrangement, interregnum.

Unsubstantiality

Shadow; phantom;(fallacy of vision); dream; (imagination); ignis fatuus; (luminary); " such stuff as dreams are made of "; air, thin air, vapor; bubble; " baseless fabric of a vision "; mockery.

Crosswords: Bubble

Lady, you're about a half a bubble off plumb, and that's fer sure and fer certain (Quigley Down Under; writing credit: John Hill)

Double, double toil and trouble; fire burn and cauldron bubble. (Macbeth; writing credit: Roman Polanski; William Shakespeare)

I got, I say I got this boy as fidgety as a bubble dancer with a slow leak (Strangled Eggs; writing credit: Tedd Pierce)

Mercury Bubble Blast (Sailor Moon; writing credit: Todd Swift)

I hate to bush your bubble, but if you build houses this small, who's gonna live in them (The Flintstones; writing credit: Tom S. Parker; Jim Jennewein)

But here am I in my little bubble (Trouble; performing artist: Coldplay)

Break the bubble, break it up (Pour Some Sugar On Me; performing artist: Def Leppard)

Gimme the microphone first, so I can bust like a bubble (Nuthin But A "G" Thang; performing artist: Dr. Dre)

I move the perico quick, and just let manteca bubble (Put Ya Hands Up; performing artist: KISS)

Come lay down in my jacuzzi and get some bubble bath (Mr. Boombastic; performing artist: Shaggy)

Life is mostly froth and bubble. Two things stand like stone: Kindness in another's trouble, courage in our own. (references; author: unknown)

The Bubble (1966)

Bubble Holiday (1961)

South Sea Bubble (1927)

Felix the Cat Busts a Bubble (1926)

The Bubble (1920)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• The 2000-2005 Outlook for Bubble Gum in Asia (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• Fubble Bubble Trouble (Mary-Kate and Ashley in Action, 3) (reference)

• Great American Baseball Card Flipping, Trading and Bubble Gum Book (reference)

• Powerpuff Girls : Bubble Trouble (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Bubble Boy (reference)

• The Boy in the Plastic Bubble (reference)

• Double Bubble (reference)

• Magic Bubble (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Bubble Boy: Original Motion Picture Score [SOUNDTRACK] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Bubble & Squeak (reference)

• Canon BJC-55 Color Bubble Jet Printer (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• Boy's White Christening Bubble, Vest and Cup, 6 months (reference)

• Conair MBTS3 Thermal Spa Bathmat Bubble Massager (reference)

• HoMedics BMAT-2 Bubble Spa Bath Mat Massager with Remote Control (reference)

• Ergo Bubble Mat, 2 x 3, Black (reference)

• Porter-Cable LL3100 Three Bubble Laser Level (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

An Expanding Bubble in Space. Credit: NASA.

A star 40 times more massive than the Sun is blowing a giant bubble of material into space. In ... Credit: NASA.

The Hubble telescope has given astronomers their best look yet at a rapidly ballooning bubble ... Credit: NASA.

The Bubble Nebula (NGC 7635) in Cassiopeia. Credit: NASA.

Padilla Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. The Bubble Shell, Haminoea sp. is seasonally abundant intertidally and subtidally on mud flats and sandy-mud bottomed bays from Alaska to the Gulf of California. The shell is fragile, translucent, and too small to contain the body. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR).

New bubble helmets popular for TV-- speech is clear and face is visible. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP).

AQUARIUS aquanauts pause to converse in talk bubble. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP).

Figure 36. Current meter invented by Jacob Peter Jacobsen in 1909. Left: view of the assembled unit. Right from top to bottom: bubble levels; sample bucket. This instrument was used by Jacobsen for many years. He first tested it in the Grand Belt from the vessel THOR in 1909. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

The secession bubble. "It must burst". Credit: Library of Congress.

Fire burn and cauldron bubble. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

The new ice had formed around and under the bubble, so that it was included between the two ices

Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn and cauldron bubble.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

It is replaced with a gas bubble that eventually fills with natural fluids. (references)

It is the disease of "the boy in the bubble," who spent his life in an isolation chamber to protect himself from germs. (references)

The Meganblase syndrome, which causes chronic belching, is characterized by severe air swallowing and an enlarged bubble of gas in the stomach following heavy meals. (references)

Business

Before the so called “bust of the bubble economy,” there were about 15 private groups who planned to build 26 skyscrapers including intelligent buildings, hotels, department stores, specialty stores, restaurants, a hospital, convention halls, and amusement facilities in the business zone (about 30 hectares). (references)

Economic History

Taiwan

However, the burst of the dot.com bubble in late 2000 and the subsequent drastic economic slowdown in the United States in early 2001 dampened Taiwan's overseas sales. (references)

Political Economy

JAPAN

The sources of Japan's economic difficulties go back to the collapse of the asset-price bubble in 1991, which left the banking and corporate sector with excessive and often unproductive investment and a huge volume of bad debts. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "bubble": air bubble ♦ bubble and squeak ♦ bubble bath ♦ bubble car ♦ bubble chamber ♦ bubble company ♦ bubble dance ♦ bubble gum ♦ bubble gum dermatitis ♦ bubble memory ♦ Bubble of light technique ♦ bubble out ♦ bubble over ♦ bubble pack ♦ bubble point ♦ Bubble shell ♦ bubble sort ♦ bubble tower ♦ bubble train ♦ bubble up ♦ bubble wrap ♦ burst one's bubble ♦ burst the bubble ♦ bursting of a bubble ♦ captured air bubble cushion ♦ elongated bubble ♦ gas bubble ♦ hubble bubble ♦ prick the bubble ♦ salt bubble ♦ soap bubble ♦ sulfate bubble ♦ sulphate bubble ♦ the bubble burst ♦ the bubble has burst ♦ vacuum bubble. Additional references.

Beginning with "bubble": bubble-and-squeak, bubble-bath, bubble-bathed, bubble-bathing, bubble-baths, bubble-brains, bubble-canopied, bubble-canopy, bubble-cap, bubble-car, bubble-curled, bubble-era, bubble-fluid, bubble-forms, bubble-free, bubble-garden, bubble-glass, bubble-gleams, bubble-gum, bubble-heads, bubble-jet, bubble-jet printer, bubble-like, bubble-making, bubble-nesters, bubble-nesting, bubble-pack, bubble-permed, bubble-ride, bubble-shaped, bubble-syringe, bubble-up, bubble-wrap.

Ending with "bubble": thought-bubble.

Albanian

gurgulloj (babble, Bicker, gurgle, purl, ripple, seethe), flluskoj (effervesce), flluskë (bleb, blister, nipple, vesicle, water blister). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فقاعة (bleb, blister), ‏مسألة تافهة, ‏مشروع وهمي (scheme), ‏وهم (delusion, fancy, idol, illusion, illusory, imagination, phantom, prestige, purport, vagary, vapor, vapour), ‏تدفق (affluence, afflux, discharge, drift, flow, flowing, fluency, flux, gush, inflow, influx, inrush, issue, jet, onrush, outbreak, outflow, outpouring, pour, roll, shoot, shoot up, slop, spirt, spout, spurt, stream, surge, throng), ‏زبد (churn, cream, foam, froth, lather, scum, spume), ‏طفح (brim, brim over, burst, exanthema, overflow, surplus), ‏خرير (babble), ‏خدع (bamboozle, beguile, betray, bilk, bitch, bite, blind, bluff, brown, camouflage, catch, cheat, chisel, con, crook, deceive, deception, decoy, defraud, delude, diddle, do, dupe, entrap, fall for, feint, fiddle, fob, fool, fox, get round, give the lie to, gull, gyp, hoax, hocus pocus, humbug, illusory, impose, intrigue, jape, job, leg pull, lure, mislead, mock, mystify, nick, overreach, pitch, play a trick, pose, prank, pull a fast one, pull his leg, ream, rook, sell, settle his hash, skin, skunk, slang, stick, string along, swank, swindle, take for a ride, take in, trick, victimize, wile), ‏بقبقة (chatter, gurgle, splutter, talkativeness), ‏بقبق (burble, gurgle, spit). (various references)

Bulgarian 

мехур (bladder, blister, cyst, utricle, vesica), пущам мехури, пеня се (churn, cream, effervesce, fizz, foam, froth, froth up, fume, lather, scum, spume). (various references)

Chinese 

泡影, 漚 (drizzle, froth, steep), 氣泡 , 水泡 (blister). (various references)

Czech

bublinka (blister), bublina, bublat (babble, burble, gurgle), perlit se (Pearl), šumìt (effervesce, fizz, swash, whisper). (various references)

Danish

blære (bladder). (various references)

Dutch

borrelen (boil). (various references)

Esperanto

bobelo, bobeli, veziko (bladder). (various references)

Farsi 

قلقل زدن , گفتن (Cite, Inform, Intimate, Observe, Rehearse, Relate, Say, Tell, Utter, Utterance), حباب براوردن , حباب (Blob, Blubber, Boll, Globe), خروشیدن (Rage, Roar), جوشیدن (Gurgle, Perk, Seethe), جوشاندن (Boil, Decoction, Seethe), اندیشه پوچ , ابسوار, بیان کردن (Express, Frame, Give, Impart, Represent, Say, Tell). (various references)

Finnish

ryhmä (body, category, clump, cluster, faction, group, squad), rakko (bladder, blister), pulputa (flow, gurgle, well), poreilla (to seethe), pore, lorista (gurgle, purl), kupla (a vesicle formed in bark or leaves by a separation and raising of the surface layers, bladder, blister, blow, delamination), klusteri (cluster, frequency reuse cluster, reuse cluster), helmeillä (sparkle). (various references)

French

bulle (bull), vessie, bouillonner. (various references)

Frisian

bonge (bladder). (various references)

German

Blase (bladder, blister, cyst), sprudeln (effervesce, effervescence, fizz, pour out, sputter), blubbern (to chuggle, waffle), brodeln (boil, hubble bubble, seethe, swirl). (various references)

Greek 

παφλάζω (lap), φυσαλλίδα (air hole), φούσκα (bladder, blister, cyst, puff, windbag). (various references)

Hebrew 

לתסוס (ferment, fizz, foam, seethe, simmer, sparkle), לפעפע (diffuse, infiltrate, permeate, pervade, suffuse), לפכות (gush, well), להתבעבע, לבעבע (gurgle, well), לנבוע (arise, derive, emanate, flow, gush forth, issue, originate, pour forth, result, spout forth, stem, well), בועה (bleb, blister, globule, vesicle), בעבוע (pustule, vesicle). (various references)

Hungarian

hólyag (bell, bladder, blister, boil, cyst, dummy, goof, goop, meatball, nitwit, pouch), buborék (bead, blister). (various references)

Indonesian

menggelembung (be in flated), gerobok (gurgle), gelembungan, gagasan (brainchild, concept, idea, thought). (various references)

Italian

vescica (bladder, blister), bolla (bead, bill, blister, bull, note). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

泡 (foam, froth, head on beer), 水泡 (foam, nothing). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

すいほう (a blister, foam, nothing), バブルげんしょう, バブル , きほう (bladder, brunt, dear, notation, previous report, vesicle, you), あわ (foam, froth, head on beer, millet). (various references)

Korean 

거품 (Foam). (various references)

Manx

cruinneenyn, cloie (act, boil, charade, enact, event, extemporise, game, match, monkey, perform, performance, play, represent, skylark, sport), bolganey, bolgan (bladder, blister on paint, bulb of thermometer, sac, vesicle). (various references)

Norwegian

blære (bladder). (various references)

Pig Latin

ubblebay.(various references)

Portuguese

bolha (bleb, blister, vesicle, water-blister), borbulhar (gemmate, guggle, gurgle, sparkle), bexiga (bladder, blister, tube). (various references)

Romanian

bolborosi (babble, falter out, gabble, gibber, gobble, haw, mutter, sputter, stammer), balon (ball, balloon, bulb, receiver), bãşicã (bladder), veros, himerã (a bird in the bush, chimera, negation, nonentity, vapor, vapour, will-o'-the-wisp), gâlgâiturã (babble, gurgle), gâlgâi (babble, gurgle), face bãşici, clocoti (boil, churn, Eddy, resound, ring, roar, seethe, surge, whirl). (various references)

Russian 

кипеть (boil, seethe), пузырь пузырьковый, пузырек (bleb, bulb, phial, vesicle, vial), пузыриться (effervesce). (various references)

Scottish

builgean (blister, pimple), gucag (a bubble, bell, bud, globule). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

vreti (boil, ferment, simmer), prevara (bilk, blind, cheat, chicanery, confidence trick, deceit, deception, dodge, double cross, dupery, eyewash, fake, flimflam, fraud, gammon, guile, gyp, plant, racket, ruse, setup, trick, trumpery), obmana (bluff, chicanery, circumvention, cozenage, deceit, deception, delusion, fraud, hoax, jugglery), mehurić (bleb, vesicle), mehur (blister), klobuk, ključati (boil, seethe, wallop), ispuštati mehuriće (effervesce), žuboriti (burble, gurgle, purl). (various references)

Spanish

vejiga (bladder, blister), burbuja (bead, bleb, blister). (various references)

Swedish

porla (gurgle, murmur, purl, ripple), bubbla (effervesce), blåsa (bister, bladder, blister, blow, blowing, huff, puff, suck in, vesicular, whistle, wind). (various references)

Thai

เรอ (belch), ฟอง (foam, spume), ผุดเป็นฟอง, ทำให้เกิดฟอง (foam). (various references)

Turkish

boş iş, sídík torbasi (bladder), kabarcıklar yapmak, kabarcık (blister, papilla, papula, papule, pimple, pock, pustule, tubercle, vesicle), köpürmek (be hopping mad, boil, boil over, churn, cream, effervesce, explode, fizz, fly off the handle, foam, froth, lather, rage, ramp, ramp and rage, seethe, sparkle, yeast), hayali şey (myth), hayal (castles in spain, castles in the air, day dream, delusion, dream, fancy, fantasy, illusion, illusiveness, imagination, phantasy, pink elephant, pipe dream, reflection, reverie, shadow, simulacrum, specter, spectre, vision, waking dream), hava kabarcığı (air bubble, bead), göz boyayıcı ve değersiz şey, fokurdamak (boil, boil up, bubble up, spit, wallop). (various references)

Turkmen 

lakyrdamak (seeth), kцpьrjik (foam). (various references)

Ukrainian

хвилювання (agitation, boil, care, disturbance, excitation, feeze, fermentation, fizzle, heartbeat, perturbation, pother, pucker, stirring, swell, throb, uproar), химера (chimera, crank, vapor, vapour, whimsy-whamsy, whim-wham), кипіти (blaze, boil, seethe), обманювати (baffle, bam, beguile, begunk, betray, bluff, buffalo, cheat, chouse, cozen, deceive, defraud, delude, do down, double cross, gouge, impose, mountebank, swindle, trick, victimize), булькання (guggle, gurgle, hubble bubble), булька (blab, blister), бити струменем, пузиритися (blubber), пузир (bladder, blub), дута справа. (various references)

Vietnamese 

bong bóng, bọt (scum), tăm điều hão huyền, ảo tưởng sự sôi sùng sục. (various references)

Welsh

byrlymu, bwrlwm (blob, gurgling). (various references)

borrire, bulla, bullas, ebulliet, ebullire, ebullivit, pustula, scateat, scatere, vesica. (various references)

gargouiller. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "bubble": bubbled, bubblegum, bubblegums, bubblehead, bubbleheaded, bubbleheads, bubbler, bubblers, bubbles. (additional references)

Words ending with "bubble": abubble. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Bubble" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bibble, bubbe, bubbeh, bubbeleh, bubbie, bubbl, bubblie, bube, Buble, bublle, Bubulu, burbble. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: bleb, blub, blue, bulb, lube.

-3 letters: bel, bub, ebb, leu.

-4 letters: be, el.

+1 letter: abubble, blubbed, blubber, bubbled, bubbler, bubbles.

+2 letters: blubbers, blubbery, bubblers, bubblier, bubblies, tubbable.

+3 letters: blubbered, bubblegum, bubbliest, bumblebee, clubbable.

+4 letters: blubbering, bubblegums, bubblehead, bumblebees, hobblebush, scrubbable.

+5 letters: bubbleheads, unclubbable.