bubble /bubˈl/

1. A globule of liquid or solidified liquid blown out with gas
2. A glass or plastic dome
3. Anything empty and insubstantial
4. An unsound or fraudulent scheme
5. A bubbling noise

1. Insubstantial
2. Deceptive
3. Fleeting, transient
4. Like a bubble in shape and lightness

1. To rise in bubbles
2. To give off bubbles
3. To make sounds as of rising and bursting bubbles
4. (with with) to show (great joy, rage, etc)
5. To blubber (Scot)

To cheat with bubble schemes

bubbˈler noun (US and Aust)

A drinking fountain

bubbˈly adjective (lit and figurative)

1. Having bubbles
2. Bubble-like
3. Cheerful and lively

Champagne

bubble bath noun

A cosmetic preparation that makes foam in bathwater

bubble car noun

A midget motor car resembling a bubble in its rounded line and windowed top

bubble chamber noun (physics)

A device for showing the path of a charged particle by the string of bubbles left in its track, a variant of the cloud chamber

bubble gum noun

A kind of chewing gum that can be blown into large bubbles

bubbˈle-headed adjective (informal)

Frivolous, flighty

bubble-jet printer noun

A kind of inkjet printer, in which droplets of heated ink are projected onto the paper by the expansion of the bubbles

bubble memory noun (computing; obsolete)

A memory composed of minute moving pockets of magnetism that represent, by their presence or absence in relation to fixed points, bits (qv) of digital information

bubble pack noun

A type of packaging in which goods are enclosed in a transparent bubble of plastic, etc backed by card

bubbˈle-shell noun

A gastropod (genus Bulla) with thin globose shell

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