BUBBLE • DICCIONARIO INGLES.COM • Definition of Bubble

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/bˈəbəl/ Listen

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. Synonym: house of cards. "A real estate bubble"

3.

An impracticable and illusory idea.

4.

A dome-shaped covering made of transparent glass or plastic.

verb

(past & past part. bubbled; pres. part. bubbling)

1.

Form, produce, or emit bubbles.

2.

Flow in an irregular current with a bubbling noise. Synonyms: babble, burble, guggle, gurgle, ripple.

3.

Rise in bubbles or as if in bubbles.

4.

Cause to form bubbles.

5.

Expel gas from the stomach. Synonyms: belch, burp, eruct.

See more definitions of Bubble...

See images of 'Bubble'

Etymology of 'Bubble'

Related searches:

bubble and squeak

bubble gum dermatitis

bubble jet printer

bubble-jet printer

magnetic bubble memory

WordNet 3.0 © 2010 Princeton University

Share |

"Bubble" Quotes from Famous Books

... that he was charged with the duty of vindicating Stephen Blackpool's memory, and declaring the thief. Mr. Bounderby quite confounded, stood stock-still in the street after his father-in-law had left him, swelling like an immense soap-bubble, ...

— Hard Times • Charles Dickens*

... made the world the poorer by so much as he was the richer? On the other hand, he might perhaps have been a poet. Certainly a man of his temperament and ingenuity might by practice have come to write rondeaus, ballades, and those other sorts of soap-bubble verse just now in fashion; and if he had been so lucky as to be disappointed in love at the outset of his career, it is quite within the limits of possibility that he should have come to write real poetry, fourteen lines to the piece. But as the first great reverse of Millard's life was in ...

— The Faith Doctor - A Story of New York • Edward Eggleston

... them was not merely a man perched on a lofty wheel, as if riding on a soap-bubble; but he was also a perpetual object-lesson in what Holmes calls "genuine, solid old Teutonic pluck." When the soldier rides into danger he has comrades by his side, his country's cause to defend, his uniform to vindicate, and the bugle to ...

— Around the World on a Bicycle V1 • Thomas Stevens

... the water beetle dives, carrying with him his reserves of breath: an air bubble at the tip of the wing cases and, under the chest, a film of gas that gleams like a silver breastplate; on the surface, the ballet of those shimmering pearls, the whirligigs, turns and twists about; hard ...

— The Life of the Fly - With Which are Interspersed Some Chapters of Autobiography • J. Henri Fabre

... he has no discoverable egotism: the great he tells greatly; the small, subordinately. He is wise without emphasis or assertion; he is strong, as nature is strong, who lifts the land into mountain slopes without effort and by the same rule as she floats a bubble in the air, and likes as well to do the one as the other. This makes that equality of power in farce, tragedy, narrative, and love-songs; a merit so incessant that each reader is incredulous of the perception of ...

— Beacon Lights of History, Volume XIII • John Lord

Copyright © 2025 Diccionario ingles.com