bubble

noun · verbA2

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noun

Plural noun:

bubbles

1.
A spherically contained volume of air or other gas, especially one made from soapy liquid.
Đồng nghĩa: bull
2.
A small spherical cavity in a solid material.
bubbles in window glass, or in a lens
3.
(broadly)(by extension) Anything resembling a hollow sphere.
4.
(figuratively)(figurative) Anything lacking firmness or solidity; a cheat or fraud; an empty project.
5.
(economics) 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.
real estate bubble
dot-com bubble
6.
(figuratively)(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.
Đồng nghĩa: circumstances, ambience
7.
An officer's station in a prison dormitory, affording views on all sides.
8.
(obsolete)Someone who has been ‘bubbled’ or fooled; a dupe.
9.
A small, hollow, floating bead or globe, formerly used for testing the strength of spirits.
10.
The globule of air in the chamber of a spirit level.
11.
(Cockney, slang)(Cockney rhyming slang) A laugh.
Are you having a bubble?!
Đồng nghĩa: giraffe, bubble bath
12.
(Cockney, slang)(Cockney rhyming slang) A Greek.
Đồng nghĩa: bubble and squeak

Động từ

verb

V_es/s

bubbles

V_ing/Gerund

bubbling

V_ed/pp

bubbled

1.
(intransitive)To produce bubbles, to rise up in bubbles (such as in foods cooking or liquids boiling).
The laminate is bubbling.
2.
(figuratively, intransitive)(intransitive, figurative) To churn or foment, as if wishing to rise to the surface.
Rage bubbled inside him.
3.
(figuratively, intransitive)(intransitive, figurative) To rise through a medium or system, similar to the way that bubbles rise in liquid.
4.
(obsolete, rare, transitive)To cover or spread with bubbles
5.
(archaic, rare, transitive)To delude, dupe, or hoodwink; to cheat.
6.
(Northern England, Scotland, intransitive)(intransitive, Scotland and Northern England) To cry, weep.
7.
(transitive)To pat a baby on the back so as to cause it to belch.
8.
(transitive)To cause to feel as if bubbling or churning.
9.
(transitive)To express in a bubbly or lively manner.
10.
(transitive)To form into a protruding round shape.
11.
(transitive)To cover with bubbles.
12.
(transitive)To bubble in; to mark a response on a form by filling in a circular area (‘bubble’).

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Đồng nghĩa

bullcircumstances ambiencegiraffebubble bathbubble and squeak

Trái nghĩa

antibubble

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Nguồn gốc từ

Partly, also influenced by burble. Compare bobbe bubble > bubbel bubble, bubbel bubble, boble bubble, bubbla bubble. The word was first used in its economic sense in association with the collapse of the South Sea Company in 1720, based on the metaphor of an inflated soap bubble bursting.