bubble
noun
- 1
a dome-shaped covering made of transparent glass or plastic
- 2
an impracticable and illusory idea
he didn't want to burst the newcomer's bubble
- 3
a speculative scheme that depends on unstable factors that the planner cannot control
his proposal was nothing but a house of cards
a real estate bubble
- 4
a hollow globule of gas (e.g., air or carbon dioxide)
verb
- 1
expel gas from the stomach
In China it is polite to burp at the table
- 2
form, produce, or emit bubbles
The soup was bubbling
- 3
cause to form bubbles
bubble gas through a liquid
- 4
rise in bubbles or as if in bubbles
bubble to the surface
- 5
flow in an irregular current with a bubbling noise
babbling brooks
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