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Definition: Burble |
BurbleVerb1. Flow in an irregular current with a bubbling noise, as of water; "babbling brooks". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "burble" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1939. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Computing | Burble v. [from Lewis Carroll's "Jabberwocky"] Like flame, but connotes that the source is truly clueless and ineffectual (mere flamers can be competent). A term of deep contempt. "There's some guy on the phone burbling about how he got a DISK FULL error and it's all our comm software's fault." This is mainstream slang in some parts of England. Source: Jargon File. |
Aerospace | A separation or breakdown of the laminar flow past a body; the eddying or turbulent flow resulting from this.Burble occurs over an airfoil operating at an angle of attack greater than the angle of maximum lift, resulting in a loss of lift and an increase of drag. See compressibility burble. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: BurbleSynonyms: babble (v), bubble (v), guggle (v), gurgle (v), ripple (v). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Burble |
| Specialty definitions using "burble": burble angle, burble point ♦ compressibility burble ♦ flame on. (references) |
| Play | Caption |
 | Blubbering; burble; chatter; clamor; drivel; gab; gabble; gibberish; jabber; jabbering; muttering; murmur; prattle; ranting; burbling; gabbing; horse; stallion. |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | The bats flittered in and out of the dull firelight, and the soft watery burble of a night hawk came from across the fields. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Burble" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 77.78% of the time. "Burble" is used about 18 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 77.78% | 14 | 93,893 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 16.67% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 5.56% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 18 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
burble | 9 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "burble"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | murmurit (babble, gabble, jabber, lip, mumble, mutter), murmurimë (babble, buzz, grunt, murmur, mutter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | بقبق (bubble, gurgle, spit). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | ромоня (chatter, purl), ромон (babble, chatter, murmur, purl, ripple, susurration), шепот (buzz, murmur, susurration, whisper), къкря (simmer), къкрене (simmer), клокочене (gurgitation, purl), кикотя се (cachinnate, cackle, giggle, guffaw, snicker, sniggle, tehee), мърморя (chunter, crab, gripe, grouse, growl, grumble, grunt, murmur, mutter), бълбукам (guggle, gurgle, purl, rill, warble), бъбря (chatter, prate, prattle, rap, talk, tittle tattle, yarn), дърдорене (babble, cackle, gab, gabble, jaw, patter, sputter, yap), дрънкам глупости (blither, piffle, talk through one's hat, waffle, yammer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | bublat (babble, bubble, gurgle), broukat si (croon, hum), brebenit, zurèet (gurgle, purl), žvanit (babble, blab, cackle, gabble, gas, natter, palaver, pettifog, piffle, prate, prattle, rattle, spout, talk, tattle, tittle tattle, twaddle, waffle, yap). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | hvirvel (button, control lever, eddy, eddy-current, handle, key, swirl, turbulent eddy, vortex), afløsning (separation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | murmelen (gurgle, murmur, mutter, purl). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | plaŭdeti (gurgle, murmur, purl), lirli (gurgle, murmur, purl). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | irtoamispyörre. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | zone de décollement, tourbillon, murmurer (buzz), décollement. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | plappern (babble, blab, chatter, gabble, jabber, jabber away, jabbering, pratt, prattle, quack, sputter, to burble, to chatter, to jabber, to sputter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | μουρμουρίζω (coo, croon, grouse, grunt, mumble, murmur, mutter), αποκόλληση αερονηματίων, τυρβώδης ροή αποκόλλησης. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | ל'ר'ר (gargle, gurgle), 'ר'ור (gargle, gargling). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | mormolás, artikulátlan hangok. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | turbolenza (turbulence), separazione della corrente. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | urblebay turbilhão (Eddy, maelstrom, swirl, turmoil, vortex, whirl, whirlpool), gaguejar (falter, flounder, haw, hemal, stammer, stutter), ferver (boil, fret, gas can, seethe, simmer, wallop). (various references) бормотать (babble, gabble, gibber, jabber, lip, mumble, murmur, mutter, muttered, speak in one's beard), бормотание (gabble, haw, mumble, mumbling, mutter, muttering). (various references) žuboriti (bubble, gurgle, purl), žubor (gurgle, purl, ripple). (various references) burbujeo (bubble), borbotón (gurgle, gush, spurt), murmurar (babble, backbite, Bicker, carry on, criticize, murmur, mutter, niggle, purl, ripple), hervir (boil, boil up, cooking, seethe, simmer, surge), hacer gorgoritos, desprendimiento de la corriente (stall), corriente desprendida. (various references) gurgla (gargle, gurgle). (various references) mırıldamak (grumble, mumble, mutter, pur, purr), kanadın kenarındaki hava çalkantısı, fıkırdamak. (various references) бурмотання (gabble, murmur, mutter, stammer), базікати (babble, blab, blather, cackle, chatter, chin, clatter, expatiate, footle, gab, gabble, gossip, haver, jabber, natter, parleyvoo, piffle, prate, spiel, tattle, tittle tattle, twitter, waffle, wag, wiggle-waggle, yak, yak-yak, yarn), базікання (babble, babbling, blab, blather, blether, bunkum, cackle, chatter, chit chat, clatter, flubdub, gabble, gossip, jabber, piffle, prate, spiel, talk, tattle, tittle tattle, tootle, twaddle, twitter, waffle, wind, yak-yak). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "burble": burbled, burbler, burblers, burbles. (additional references) | |
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"Burble" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: berbel, borbe, Borbely, Borle, Brumble, Buble, bublle, Burali, burbble. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: lubber, rubble. | |
| Words within the letters "b-b-e-l-r-u" | |
-1 letter: bluer, blurb, ruble. | |
-2 letters: bleb, blub, blue, blur, bulb, burl, lube, lure, rube, rule. | |
-3 letters: bel, bub, bur, ebb, leu, reb, rub, rue, urb. | |
-4 letters: be, el, er, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-b-e-l-r-u" | |
+1 letter: barbule, blubber, blurbed, bubbler, bumbler, burbled, burbler, burbles, clubber, flubber, lubbers, rubbled, rubbles, slubber. | |
+2 letters: barbules, belabour, blubbers, blubbery, bluebird, bubblers, bubblier, bumblers, burblers, burblier, burnable, clubbers, clubbier, curbable, flubbers, lubberly, nubblier, quibbler, rubblier, slubbers. | |
+3 letters: belabours, blubbered, bluebeard, blueberry, bluebirds, burbliest, burnables, quibblers, rubbliest, slubbered, squabbler, stubblier. | |
+4 letters: belaboured, blubbering, bluebeards, butterball, landlubber, numberable, rebuttable, rubberlike, scrubbable, slubbering, squabblers, subproblem, unbearable, unbearably, unburnable. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 75 72 62 6C 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... ..- .-. -... .-.. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01110101 01110010 01100010 01101100 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B u r b l e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0075 0072 0062 006C 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)368784687871 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Albanian | fjalor, qartësi, përcaktim, saktësi, transmetim, transferim | shqip, الألبانية, الألباني, албанец, албански език, албански, albánský, Albanees, albanialainen, Albanais, albaner, αλβανικόσ, Αλβανός, αλβανόσ, albán, albanese, albanês, албанский, albanski, albanac, albanés, alban, Arnavut, албанський, албанка, албанець |
Arabic | معجم, قاموس, الوضوحية في الشيء, حد, تحديد, تعريف, التحديد, الإيضاحية, ترجمة من لغة أجنبية للغة الأم, ترجمة, إفتتان | arabishte, العربية, عربي, اللغة العربية, арабски език, арабски, arabský, arabština, arabialainen, arabe, arabisch, αραβικόσ, ערבית, ערבי, arab, arabo, арабский, arapski, árabe, arabisk, arapça, arap, araplara özgü, арабська мова, арабський |
Bulgarian | речник, яснота, сила, очертания, дефиниция, транслация, превеждане, предаване, поддаване, тълкуване, огъване, превод | bulgr, البلغارية, بلغاري, български, български език, българин, bulharský, bulgarer, bulgarialainen, bulgare, 'ούλγαρος, bolgár, bulgaro, болгарский, болгарин, bugarski jezik, bugarski, bugarka, bugarin, búlgaro, bulgar, bulgaristan ile ilgili, болгарський |
Czech | slovník, definice, překlad | çek, تشيكي, اللغة التشيكوسلوفاكية, التشيكي أحد أبناء تشيكوسلوفاكيا, чешки, èesky, èeské, èech, èeština, èeský, èeška, tjekker, tjekke, Tsjech, Tsjechisch, t?ekkiläinen, tchèque, Tscheche, tschechisch, Tschechin, Τσέχος, cseh, ceco, чешский, češki jezik, čeh, češki, checo, tjeck, Çek, çekoslovakyalı kimse, çekoslovakyalı, çek dili, чех, чеська мова, чеський, чешка |
Danish | ordbog, deskriptordefinition, oversættelse | danisht, danishte, لغة الدانمركية, نوع كعك, دانماركي, датски език, датски, dánský, dánština, tanskalainen, danois, dänisch, δανικόσ, δανόσ, עו'ת שמרים, " י, dán, danese, dinamarquês, датский, danski, danski jezik, danés, dansk, danimarkalı, danimarka dili, датський, датська мова |
Dutch | woordenboek, definitie, translatie | holandez, هولندي, اللغة الهولندية, холандски, немски език, холандски език, холандците, немски, holandský, nizozemský, hollandsk, hollantilainen, néerlandais, holländisch, ολλανδικόσ, ολλανδόσ, "ול "י, holland, olandese, holandês, голландский, holanđanin, u škripcu, holandski, holandés, holländsk, alman, eş, flemenkçe, holandaca, hollanda, karı, hollandalı, hollandalılara özgü olan, Hollandali, hollanda'ya ait, голландська мова, голландський |
Esperanto | الاسبرانتو لغة دولية, есперанто, esperanton, espéranto, εσπεράντο, אספר טו, eszperanto, eszperantó, эсперанто, esperanto, esperanto dili | |
Finnish | määritelmä, translaatio, taajuusmuutos | finlandez, finlandishte, finlandisht, اللغة الفنلندية, فنلندية, فنلندي, фински език, фински, finský, suomi, suomalainen, finnois, Finlandaise, finlandais, finnisch, φινλανδικόσ, פי י, finn, finlandese, finlandês, finês, финский, finski jezik, finski, finlandés, finés, finsk, fince, finlandiya'ya özgü, фінська мова, фінський |
French | dictionnaire, définition, traduction | frëngjishte, frëng, franceze, اللغة الفرنسية, فرنسي, الشعب الفرنسي, френски език, френски, francouzský, francouzština, ranskalainen, français, französisch, γαλλικόσ, γαλλική γλώσσα, γαλλίδα, γάλλοσ, צרפתית, צרפתי, francia, francese, francês, французский, francuski jezik, francuski, francuzi, francés, fransk, franska, fransızca, fransız, Fransiz, fransızca ile ilgili, fransa ile ilgili, французька мова, французький |
German | wörterbuch, Übersetzung | gjerman, ضرب من الرقص, جرماني, الماني, اللغة الألمانية, المانية, германски, немски език, немски, немец, роден, готически, германец, nìmec, nìmecký, tysker, Duitse, saksalainen, allemand, deutsch, Deutsche, "ερμανός, 'רמ ית, 'רמ י, német, tedesco, alemão, немецкий, germanski, alemán, tysk, alman, німкеня, німецький, німець |
Greek | λεξικό, ορισμός, μετάφραση | يوناني, اللغة اليونانية, الإغريقي, гръцки език, гръцки, грък, řek, řecký, řeètina, græker, kreikkalainen, grec, grieche, ελληνικόσ, 'Ελληνας, יו ית, יו י, görög, greco, grego, греческий, грек, grčki, grk, grčki jezik, griego, grek, yunanistan'a ait, yunanca, yunan, Yunanli, yunanlı, Rumca, rum, грецький, гречанка, грецька мова |
Hebrew | אוצר מילים, "'"ר", "'בל", תור'מ ות, תר'ום, "עתק", "עתק | hebraishte, اليهودية, اللغة العبرية, يهودي, عبري, العبرية, иврит, староеврейски език, древен жител на юдея, юдейски, израилтянин, евреин, староеврейски, юдей, hebrejský, hebrejec, hebrejka, hebrejština, joods, Hebreeuws, juutalainen, hébreu, hebräisch, Hebräer, εβραϊκόσ, εβραϊκά, εβραίοσ, עברי, עברית, zsidó, héber, izraelita, ebreo, ebraico, hebreu, hebraico, еврей, древнееврейский язык, древнееврейский, еврейский, hibru, hebreo, jude, hebreiska, hebreisk, musevi, ibranice, ibrani, іудей, іврит, старо"врейська мова, старо"врейський, "врейський, "врей |
Hungarian | szótár, meghatározás, definíció, fordítás | مجري, المجري, الهنغاري, هنغاري, اللغة الهنغارية, унгарски език, унгарски, унгарец, maïarský, maïarština, maïar, ungarer, Hongaarse, unkarilainen, hongrois, Ungar, Ούγγρος, "ו 'רי, magyar, ungherese, венгр, венгерский, mađarski jezik, mađarski, mađar, húngaro, ungrare, macarca, macar, угорська мова, угорський, угорка, угорець |
Italian | dizionario, definizione, traduzione | الإيطالي, اللغة الإيطالية, إيطالي, شخص إيطالي, италиански език, италиански, италианец, italský, italština, ital, italiener, italialainen, italien, italienisch, Ιταλός, איטלקית, איטלקי, olasz, italiano, итальянский язык, итальянец, итальянский, italijan, italijanski jezik, italijanski, italiensk, italienska, italienare, italyanca, italyan, італі"ць, італійська мова, італійський, італійка |
Portuguese | dicionário, definição, tradução | portugez, portugalisht, اللغة البرتغالية, البرتغالية, البرتغالي, португалски, португалски език, португалец, portugalský, portugiser, portugalilainen, portugais, portugiesisch, πορτογάλοσ, ορτογάλος, portugál, portoghese, português, португальский, portugalski jezik, portugalac, portugalski, portugués, portugis, portekizce, portekiz, Portekízlí, portekizli, португальський, португальська мова, португалець |
Russian | словарь, определение, трансляция, сдвиг, перевод, перемещение | روسي, اللغة الروسية, الروسية, руски език, руски, руснак, ruština, ruský, russer, venäläinen, Russe, russisch, Ρώσος, רוסי, orosz, russo, русский, ruski jezik, ruski, ruso, ryss, Rusça, росіянка, росіянин, російська мова, російський |
Serbo-Croatian | leksikon, rečnik, definicija, tumačenje | serbokroatisch, servo-croata, srpsko-hrvatski jezik, srpsko-hrvatski, serbokroatiska, serbokroatisk |
Spanish | diccionario, definición, traducción | spanjoll, اللغة الأسبانية, الأسبانية, أسباني, испански език, испански, španìlský, španìlština, Spaans, espanjalainen, espagnol, spanisch, ισπανικά, ισπανικόσ, ισπανοί, ספר"ית, ספר"י, spanyol, spagnolo, espanhol, испанский, španski, španski jezik, español, spanska språk, spansk, ispanyollar, ispanyol, ispanyolca, іспанський, іспанська мова |
Swedish | ordbok, lexikon, definition, översättning | suedez, اللغة السويدية, шведски, шведски език, швед, švédský, švédština, Zweeds, ruotsalainen, suédois, schwedisch, σουηδικόσ, σουηδικά, svéd, svedese, шведский, švedski jezik, švedski, sueco, svensk, isveççe, isveç dili, isveç, Ísveçlí, шведська мова, шведський |
Turkish | sözlük, ansiklopedik sözlük, açıklama, belirleme, belirtme, kesinleştirme, tanım, tarif, seçiklik, tanımlama, tercüme | turk, تركي أحد أبناء تركيا, اللغة التركية, турски език, турски, turecký, tureètina, turkkilainen, turque, türkisch, τούρκικοσ, טורקי, török, турецкий, turski jezik, turski, turco, turkisk, türkçe, türk, турецький, турецька мова |
Ukranian | словник, довідник, чіткість, тлумачення, виразність, визначення, дефініція, ясність, чітка чутність, процес перекладу, переклад, пояснення, переміщення | |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | anglezët, anglez, gjuhë zngleze, anglishte, anglisht, الإنجليزية, الأنكليزي, إنكليزي, ترجمة إنكليزية, اللغة الإنكليزية, английски език, английски, англичаните, anglicky, anglan, englantia, englantilainen, anglais, englisch, εγγλέζοσ, αγγλικόσ, א 'לית, angol, inglese, inglês, английский, engleski, englez, engleski jezik, inglés, engelsk, ingiltere, ingiliz, Íngílízce, ingilizce, Íngílíz, ýngilizce, англійський, англійці, англійська мова |
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