| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. Of Bubble.[Websters]
2. To have bladdered or voided. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. To be blistered. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. To be beaded. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. To have foamed, spumed or scummed. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. To be podded, hulled or pouched. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. To have clustered, bundled, packed, banded or teamed. [Eve - graph theoretic] 8. To be celled. [Eve - graph theoretic] 9. To have stocked. [Eve - graph theoretic] 10. To have shelled or bowled.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Past Tense | 1. Past tense conjugation of the verb bubble.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (bubble) | 1. Form, produce, or emit bubbles.[Wordnet]. 2. Flow in an irregular current with a bubbling noise.[Wordnet]. 3. Rise in bubbles or as if in bubbles; "bubble to the surface".[Wordnet]. 4. Cause to form bubbles; "bubble gas through a liquid".[Wordnet]. 5. Expel gas from the stomach.[Wordnet]. 6. To rise in bubbles, as liquids when boiling or agitated; to contain bubbles.[Websters]. 7. To run with a gurgling noise, as if forming bubbles; as, a bubbling stream.[Websters]. 8. To sing with a gurgling or warbling sound.[Websters]. 9. Base verb from the following inflections: bubbling, bubbled, bubbles, bubbler, bubblers, bubblingly and bubbledly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
Date "BUBBLED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1655. (references) |
Specialty Definition: bubble
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Administration | 1: (1) A thin, usually spherical or hemispherical film of liquid filled with air or gas, as a soap bubble. (2) A globular body of air or gas formed within a liquid, as air bubbles rising to the surface of a body of water. (references) | 2: A system under which existing emissions sources can propose alternate means to comply with a set of emissions limitations; under the bubble concept, sources can control more than required at one emission point where control costs are relatively low in return for a comparable relaxation of controls at a second emission point where costs are higher. (references) | |
| Banking | A speculative venture that has little chance of making a profit. When this fact becomes evident, the bubble burst and prices fall. (references) | ||
| Geography | The globule of air in the tube of a spirit level. Source: European Union. (references) | ||
| Literature | 1: "The whole scheme [the Fenian raid on British America] was a collapsed bubble."- The Times. 2: The Bubble Act, 6 George I., cap. 18; published 1719, and repealed July 5th, 1825. Its object was to punish the promoters of bubble schemes. 3: A bubble company. A company whose object is to enrich themselves at the expense of subscribers to their scheme. 4: A bubble scheme. A project for getting money from subscribers to a scheme of no value. 5: Bubble (A. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | ||
| Mechanical Engineering | Continuous tulip-shape film of fuel from burner at low flow rate. Source: European Union. (references) | ||
| Metallurgy | Gaseous inclusion in the glass, generally spherical in the melt but may be deformed in various ways during feeding or fabrication. The shape can be qualified by a suitable adjective(e. g. spherical, elliptical). The content, if known, can also be similarly denoted. Source: European Union. (references) | ||
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Common Expressions: bubble
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Air bubble | A bubble of air. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| British property bubble | Many commentators believe that a British property bubble has been existing since about 1998 in the British property market. The very question of whether the British property market is in an economic bubble, or whether house prices can sustain themselves, is a matter of controversy. (references) | ||
| Bubble Act | The Bubble Act of 1720 was an British act that forbade all joint-stock companies not authorised by royal charter. (references) | ||
| Bubble and squeak | Leftover cabbage fried with cooked potatoes and sometimes meat. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Bubble bath | A bath in which you add something to foam and scent the bath water. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Bubble bath | Bubble baths can be obtained by adding a product containing sodium dodecyl sulfate and is certified lather to water. Rubber ducks and other toys may make taking a bubble bath more enjoyable. (references) | ||
| Bubble Buddy | He pays them in bubble-money (which pops), angering them. He angers other people, and on the beach, they decide to pop bubble buddy. (references) | ||
| Bubble chamber | An instrument that records the tracks of ionizing particles. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Bubble chamber | A bubble chamber is a vessel filled with a superheated transparent liquid used to detect electrically charged particles moving through it. The charged particle deposits sufficient energy in the liquid that it begins to boil along its path, forming a string of bubbles. Bubble chambers are similar to cloud chambers in application and basic principle. It was invented in 1952 by Donald A. Glaser, for which he was awarded the 1960 Nobel Prize in Physics. (references) | ||
| Bubble dance | A solo dance similar to a fan dance except large balloons are used instead of fans. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
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Specialty Expressions: bubble
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Air bubble | Mining | See: air bell. (references) | |
| Bidirectional bubble sort | Math | A variant of bubble sort which compares each adjacent pairs of items in a list in turn, swapping them if necessary, and alternately passes through the list from the beginning to the end then from the end to the beginning until no swaps are done. (references) | |
| Bubble Act | Law | BUBBLE ACT, Eng. law. The name given to the statute 6 Geo. I., c. 18, which was passed in 1719, and was intended " for restraining several extravagant and unwarrantable practices therein mentioned." See 2 P. Wms. 219. (references) | |
| Bubble and squeak | Literature | 1: Cold boiled meat and greens fried. They first bubbled in water when boiled, and afterwards hissed or squeaked in the frying-pan. 2: Something pretentious, but of no real value, such as "rank and title," or a bit of ribbon in one's button hole. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | |
| Bubble and squeak | Slang in 1811 | BUBBLE AND SQUEAK. Beef and cabbage fried together. It is so called from its bubbling up and squeaking whilst over the fire. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. | |
| Bubble chamber | Mining | A device that marks the paths of charged particles by photographing the train of bubbles they produce as they move through certain superheatedliquids. See also:cloud chamber; spark chamber. (references) | |
| Bubble chart | Health | (IEEE: Standards Collection, Software Engineering, 1994 Edition, published by the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers Inc.) A data flow, data structure, or other diagram in which entities are depicted with circles [bubbles] and relationships are represented by links drawn between the circles. See: block diagram, box diagram, flowchart, graph, input-process-output chart, structure chart. (references) | |
| Bubble filters | Religion | These internal filters use a lift tube to draw water through a foam block, as in a sponge filter. (references) | |
| Bubble gum | Food & Agriculture | A chewing gum that can be blown into large bubbles. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Bubble gum | Health | Cocaine; crack cocaine; marijuana from Tennessee. (references) | |
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