bubble

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
美 /ˈbʌbl̩/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A spherically contained volume of air or other gas, especially one made from soapy liquid.
  2. A small spherical cavity in a solid material.
    — bubbles in window glass, or in a lens
  3. Anything resembling a hollow sphere. broadly
  4. Anything lacking firmness or solidity; a cheat or fraud; an empty project. figuratively
    — Then a soldier […] / Seeking the bubble reputation / Even in the cannon's mouth
  5. 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
  6. 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. figuratively
    — Thomas, so often West Brom's most positive attacker down their left side and up against Salgado, twice almost burst the bubble of excitement around the ground but he had two efforts superbly saved by Robinson.
  7. An officer's station in a prison dormitory, affording views on all sides.
    — Later that day, the unit was staffed with only one officer, who was required to stay in the bubble.
  8. Someone who has been ‘bubbled’ or fooled; a dupe. obsolete
    — Gany's a cheat, and I'm a bubble.
  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. A laugh. Cockney,slang
    — Are you having a bubble?!
  12. A Greek. Cockney,slang
  13. Any of the small magnetized areas that make up bubble memory. historical
  14. 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).
    — Many players tend to play timidly (not play many hands) around the bubble, to keep their chips and last longer in the game.
  15. The cutoff point between qualifying, advancing or being invited to a tournament, or having one's competition end.
    — bubble watch
  16. A quarantine environment containing multiple people or facilities isolated from the rest of society.
    — "There was an empty room and this is my house," Mark Philip told the Herald. "Where am I supposed to go? Whose bubble am I supposed to infect?"
  17. The people who are in this quarantine.
  18. Ellipsis of travel bubble. abbreviation,alt-of,ellipsis
  19. A bulb or lamp; the part of a lighting assembly that actually produces the light. slang
    — A bare lamp (bulb, globe, 'bubble') radiates light in all directions.
  20. A specialized glass pipe having a sphere-shaped apparatus at one end.
动词 v.
  1. To produce bubbles, to rise up in bubbles (such as in foods cooking or liquids boiling). intransitive
    — The laminate is bubbling.
  2. To churn or foment, as if wishing to rise to the surface. figuratively,intransitive
    — Rage bubbled inside him.
  3. To rise through a medium or system, similar to the way that bubbles rise in liquid. figuratively,intransitive
    — The target of this event is the most deeply nested common ancestor of all changes that occurred in the document, and it bubbles up the document tree […]
  4. To cover or spread with bubbles obsolete,rare,transitive
  5. To delude, dupe, or hoodwink; to cheat. archaic,rare,transitive
    — No, no, friend, I shall never be bubbled out of my religion in hopes only of keeping my place under another government […]
  6. To cry, weep. Northern-England,Scotland,intransitive
  7. To pat a baby on the back so as to cause it to belch. transitive
    — Groggily her mind went back through the long hours to 10 P.M. She had fed Junior, bubbled him, diped him—according to plan.
  8. To cause to feel as if bubbling or churning. transitive
    — It seemed to Adam that he felt the blood in his toes creeping up his legs and body until it reached his brain where, finding it could go no farther, it bubbled him into dumbness: it added to his confusion to know that he looked as if some such accident had befallen his circulation.
  9. To express in a bubbly or lively manner. transitive
    — Mrs. Hinds beamed at Ipsie through pince-nez and bubbled her joy through thin lips, but Ipsie made no reply.
  10. To form into a protruding round shape. transitive
    — She bubbled her lips at Junior and wrinkled her eyes.
  11. To cover with bubbles. transitive
    — Her mouth hung slightly open and water droplets bubbled her forehead, like oversized sweat.
  12. To bubble in; to mark a response on a form by filling in a circular area (‘bubble’). transitive
    — Cross out answers as you eliminate them, and practice bubbling your answers on the sheet provided at the very end of the book.
  13. To apply a filter bubble, as to search results.
  14. To join together in a support bubble intransitive
  15. To grass (report criminal activity to the authorities). UK,slang,transitive

词形变化

bubbles plural bubbles present,singular,third-person bubbling participle,present bubbled participle,past bubbled past

词汇关系

衍生词
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词源

词源 1
Partly imitative, also influenced by burble. Compare Middle Dutch bobbe (“bubble”) > Dutch bubbel (“bubble”), Low German bubbel (“bubble”), Danish boble (“bubble”), Swedish 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.
词源 2
Partly imitative, also influenced by burble. Compare Middle Dutch bobbe (“bubble”) > Dutch bubbel (“bubble”), Low German bubbel (“bubble”), Danish boble (“bubble”), Swedish 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.
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