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bubble

//ˈbʌbəl//

Noun

A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

Verb

A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

Note for bubble

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Forms

Noun

A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

Plural
bubbles

Verb

A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

present (v1)
bubble
past (v2)
bubbled
past participle (v3)
bubbled
present participle
bubbling
3rd person singular
bubbles

Definitions

Noun

A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

  1. 1.A spherically contained volume of air or other gas in a liquid, commonly a soapy liquid.

  2. 2.A small spherical cavity in a solid material.

  3. 3.Anything resembling a hollow sphere.

  4. 4.Anything lacking firmness or solidity; a cheat or fraud; an empty project.

Verb

A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

  1. 1.To churn or foment, as if wishing to rise to the surface.

    • With some technical improvement, I could see how the process of imitating my work would soon become fast and streamlined, and the many dark potentials bubbled to the forefront of my mind.
  2. 2.To cry, weep.

  3. 3.To produce bubbles, to rise up in bubbles (such as in foods cooking or liquids boiling).

  4. 4.To rise through a medium or system, similar to the way that bubbles rise in liquid.

Frequency

Overall

Uncommon· #3656

By learning goal

Everyday conversation
Rare
General reading & writing
Uncommon
Academic
Rare
Literature
Rare

Etymology

Partly imitative, also influenced by burble.

Compare Middle Dutch bobbe (“bubble”) > Dutch bubbel (“bubble”), Low German bubbel (“bubble”), Danish boble (“bubble”), Swedish bubbla (“bubble”).

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