bubble
pronunciation
How to pronounce bubble in British English:
UK [ˈbʌbl]
How to pronounce bubble in American English:
US [ˈbʌbl]
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- Noun:
- a hollow globule of gas (e.g., air or carbon dioxide)
- a speculative scheme that depends on unstable factors that the planner cannot control
- an impracticable and illusory idea
- a dome-shaped covering made of transparent glass or plastic
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- Verb:
- form, produce, or emit bubbles
- flow in an irregular current with a bubbling noise
- expel gas from the stomach
Word Origin
- bubble
- bubble: [14] Several Germanic languages have words that sound like, and mean the same as, bubble – Swedish bubla, for instance, and Dutch bobbel – but all are relatively modern, and there is no evidence to link them to a common source. As likely as not, the whole family of bubble words represents ultimately an attempt to lexicalize the sound of bubbling, by blowing through nearly closed lips.
- bubble (n.)
- early 14c., perhaps from Middle Dutch bobbel (n.) and/or Middle Low German bubbeln (v.), all probably of echoic origin. Bubble bath first recorded 1949. Of financial schemes originally in South Sea Bubble (1590s), on notion of "fragile and insubstantial."
- bubble (v.)
- mid-15c., perhaps from bubble (n.) and/or from Middle Low German bubbeln (v.), probably of echoic origin. Related: Bubbled; bubbling.
Example
- 1. A more plausible approach could come from bubble fusion .
- 2. Here l is the thickness of the bubble wrap .
- 3. The most glaring example of this is the bubble sort algorithm .
- 4. Some old-fashioned bubble liquid , glycerin , food dye , and careful photography can shed light on some of the most striking fluid dyamics .
- 5. 3 / 14 Macau , china : a multimedia show in the bubble , a dome-shaped theatre at melco crown entertainment 's latest gaming resort , city of dreams