Sekirov Dictionary

bubble

/ˈbʌbəl/

noun20

  1. a round pocket of air or gas trapped in a liquid
  2. A small spherical cavity in a solid material.
  3. The globule of air in the chamber of a spirit level.
  4. A period of intense speculation in a market, causing prices to rise quickly to irrational levels as the metaphorical bubble expands, and then fall even more quickly as the bubble bursts.
  5. A quarantine environment containing multiple people or facilities isolated from the rest of society.
  6. The people who are in this quarantine.
  7. (figurative) The emotional or physical atmosphere in which a subject is immersed; especially, a homogeneous atmosphere in which subjects are spared exposure to culture or ideas different from their own.
  8. Ellipsis of travel bubble.
  9. Anything resembling a hollow sphere.
  10. A small, hollow, floating bead or globe, formerly used for testing the strength of spirits.
  11. (slang) A bulb or lamp; the part of a lighting assembly that actually produces the light.
  12. In a poker tournament, the point before which eliminated players receive no prize money and after which they do; the situation where all remaining players are guaranteed prize money (in this case, the players are said to have made the bubble); the situation where all remaining players will be guaranteed prize money after some small number of players are eliminated (in this case, the players are said to be on the bubble).
  13. The cutoff point between qualifying, advancing or being invited to a tournament, or having one's competition end.
  14. (figurative) Anything lacking firmness or solidity; a cheat or fraud; an empty project.
  15. An officer's station in a prison dormitory, affording views on all sides.
  16. A specialized glass pipe having a sphere-shaped apparatus at one end.
  17. (slang) A laugh.
  18. (historical) Any of the small magnetized areas that make up bubble memory.
  19. (slang) A Greek.
  20. (no longer used) Someone who has been ‘bubbled’ or fooled; a dupe.

verb15

  1. To produce bubbles, to rise up in bubbles (such as in foods cooking or liquids boiling).
  2. To cause to feel as if bubbling or churning.
  3. (figurative) To churn or foment, as if wishing to rise to the surface.
  4. (figurative) To rise through a medium or system, similar to the way that bubbles rise in liquid.
  5. To express in a bubbly or lively manner.
  6. To bubble in; to mark a response on a form by filling in a circular area (‘bubble’).
  7. To form into a protruding round shape.
  8. To join together in a support bubble
  9. To pat a baby on the back so as to cause it to belch.
  10. To apply a filter bubble, as to search results.
  11. (Scotland, Northern-England) To cry, weep.
  12. (UK, slang) To grass (report criminal activity to the authorities).
  13. To cover or spread with bubbles
  14. To cover with bubbles.
  15. (no longer used, rare) To delude, dupe, or hoodwink; to cheat.
forms

bubbled · bubbling · bubbles · bubbleth · bubblest

Phrases with bubble

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