Word Meanings - BUBBLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. A thin film of liquid inflated with air or gas; as, a soap bubble; bubbles on the surface of a river. Beads of sweat have stood upon thy brow, Like bubbles in a late disturbed stream. Shak. 2. A small quantity of air or gas within a liquid body;

Additional info about word: BUBBLE

1. A thin film of liquid inflated with air or gas; as, a soap bubble; bubbles on the surface of a river. Beads of sweat have stood upon thy brow, Like bubbles in a late disturbed stream. Shak. 2. A small quantity of air or gas within a liquid body; as, bubbles rising in champagne or aërated waters. 3. A globule of air, or globular vacuum, in a transparent solid; as, bubbles in window glass, or in a lens. 4. A small, hollow, floating bead or globe, formerly used for testing the strength of spirits. 5. The globule of air in the spirit tube of a level. 6. Anything that wants firmness or solidity; that which is more specious than real; a false show; a cheat or fraud; a delusive scheme; an empty project; a dishonest speculation; as, the South Sea bubble. Then a soldier . . . Seeking the bubble reputation Even in the cannon's mouth. Shak. 7. A person deceived by an empty project; a gull. "Ganny's a cheat, and I'm a bubble." Prior.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of BUBBLE)

• Boll
• bubble
• effervesce
• rage
• explode
• fume
• Effervesce
• Boil
• foam
• mantle
• froth
• ferment
• sparkle
• bluster
• Sparkle
• Scintillate
• flash
• glisten
• glitter
• gleam
• shine
• radiate
• coruscate
• Trifle
• Bauble
• bagatelle
• toy
• straw
• nothing
• triviality
• levity
• joke
• cipher
• gewgaw
• kickshaw
• rush

Related words: (words related to BUBBLE)

• FERMENTABLE
  Capable of fermentation; as, cider and other vegetable liquors are fermentable.
• TRIFLE
  trifle, probably the same word as F. truffe truffle, the word being 1. A thing of very little value or importance; a paltry, or trivial, affair. With such poor trifles playing. Drayton. Trifles light as air Are to the jealous confirmation strong
• NOTHINGNESS
  1. Nihility; nonexistence. 2. The state of being of no value; a thing of no value.
• FERMENT
  fervimentum, fr. fervere to be boiling hot, boil, ferment: cf. F. 1. That which causes fermentation, as yeast, barm, or fermenting beer. Note: Ferments are of two kinds: Formed or organized ferments. Unorganized or structureless ferments. The
• STRAW-CUTTER
  An instrument to cut straw for fodder.
• FROTHILY
  In a frothy manner.
• MANTLE
  See WINGS (more info) mantellum, mantelum, a cloth, napkin, cloak, mantle (cf. mantele, mantile, towel, napkin); prob. from manus hand + the root of tela 1. A loose garment to be worn over other garments;
• FROTHY
  1. Full of foam or froth, or consisting of froth or light bubbles; spumous; foamy. 2. Not firm or solid; soft; unstable. Bacon. 3. Of the nature of froth; light; empty; unsubstantial; as, a frothy speaker or harangue. Tillotson.
• EFFERVESCENCE; EFFERVESCENCY
  A kind of natural ebullition; that commotion of a fluid which takes place when some part of the mass flies off in a gaseous form, producing innumerable small bubbles; as, the effervescence of a carbonate with citric acid.
• CIPHER
  A character which, standing by itself, expresses nothing, but when placed at the right hand of a whole number, increases its value tenfold. 2. One who, or that which, has no weight or influence. Here he was a mere cipher. W. Irving. 3. A character
• GEWGAW
  A showy trifle; a toy; a splendid plaything; a pretty but worthless bauble. A heavy gewgaw called a crown. Dryden. (more info) as OE. givegove gewgaw, apparently a reduplicated form fr. AS. gifan to give; cf. also F. joujou plaything, and E. gaud,
• SPARKLER
  One who scatters; esp., one who scatters money; an improvident person.
• FROTHING
  Exaggerated declamation; rant.
• CORUSCATE
  To glitter in flashes; to flash. Syn. -- To glisten; gleam; sparkle; radiate.
• RADIATE-VEINED
  Having the principal veins radiating, or diverging, from the apex of the petiole; -- said of such leaves as those of the grapevine, most maples, and the castor-oil plant.
• STRAWED
  imp. & p. p. of Straw.
• BLUSTERINGLY
  In a blustering manner.
• FLASHING
  The creation of an artifical flood by the sudden letting in of a body of water; -- called also flushing.
• TRIFLER
  One who trifles. Waterland.
• BLUSTEROUS
  Inclined to bluster; given to blustering; blustering. Motley.
• JACKSTRAW
  1. An effigy stuffed with straw; a scarecrow; hence, a man without property or influence. Milton. 2. One of a set of straws of strips of ivory, bone, wood, etc., for playing a child's game, the jackstraws being thrown confusedly together
• MONOTHALAMAN
  A foraminifer having but one chamber.
• OUTSPARKLE
  To exceed in sparkling.
• MOONSHINER
  A person engaged in illicit distilling; -- so called because the work is largely done at night.
• MONOTHALMIC
  Formed from one pistil; -- said of fruits. R. Brown.
• ANOTHER-GUESS
  Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot.
• INEFFERVESCENT
  Not effervescing, or not susceptible of effervescence; quiescent.
• PREFERMENT
  1. The act of choosing, or the state of being chosen; preference. Natural preferment of the one . . . before the other. Sir T. Browne. 2. The act of preferring, or advancing in dignity or office; the state of being advanced; promotion. Neither
• AGONOTHETE
  An officer who presided over the great public games in Greece.
• BUSHINESS
  The condition or quality of being bushy.
• KNOW-NOTHING
  A member of a secret political organization in the United States, the chief objects of which were the proscription of foreigners by the repeal of the naturalization laws, and the exclusive choice of native Americans for office. Note: The