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bubble - a hollow globule of gas (e.g., air or carbon dioxide) |
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globule a small globe or ball
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air bubble a bubble of air
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foam,
froth a mass of small bubbles formed in or on a liquid; "the beer had a thick head of foam"
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soap bubble a bubble formed by a thin soap film
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bubble - a dome-shaped covering made of transparent glass or plastic |
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covering the act of protecting something by covering it
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bubble - an impracticable and illusory idea; "he didn't want to burst the newcomer's bubble" |
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fancy,
fantasy,
illusion,
phantasy a kind of imagination that was held by Coleridge to be more casual and superficial than true imagination
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| Verb |
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bubble - form, produce, or emit bubbles; "The soup was bubbling" |
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breathe,
emit,
pass off draw air into, and expel out of, the lungs; "I can breathe better when the air is clean"; "The patient is respiring"
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bubble over,
overflow,
spill over overflow with a certain feeling; "The children bubbled over with joy"; "My boss was bubbling over with anger"
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effervesce,
fizz,
foam,
form bubbles,
froth,
sparkle become bubbly or frothy or foaming; "The boiling soup was frothing"; "The river was foaming"; "Sparkling water"
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bubble - cause to form bubbles; "bubble gas through a liquid" |
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bubble form, produce, or emit bubbles; "The soup was bubbling"
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alter,
change,
modify remove the ovaries of; "Is your cat spayed?"
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bubble - rise in bubbles or as if in bubbles; "bubble to the surface" |
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arise,
come up,
go up,
lift,
move up,
rise,
uprise result or issue; "A slight unpleasantness arose from this discussion"
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