bubble : Idioms & Phrases
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air bubble
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noun a bubble of air
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bubble and squeak
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noun leftover cabbage fried with cooked potatoes and sometimes meat
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bubble bath
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noun a bath in which you add something to foam and scent the bath water
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bubble chamber
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noun an instrument that records the tracks of ionizing particles
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bubble dance
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noun a solo dance similar to a fan dance except large balloons are used instead of fans
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bubble gum
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noun a kind of chewing gum that can be blown into bubbles
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bubble gum dermatitis
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noun an allergic contact dermatitis developed around the lips of children who chew bubble gum
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bubble jet printer
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noun a kind of ink-jet printer
bubble jet printer; bubblejet.
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bubble over
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verb overflow with a certain feeling
spill over; overflow.
- The children bubbled over with joy
- My boss was bubbling over with anger
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bubble pack
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noun packaging in which a product is sealed between a cardboard backing and clear plastic cover
blister pack.
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bubble shell
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noun marine gastropod mollusk having a very small thin shell
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Bub"ble shell`
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(Zoöl.) A marine univalve shell of the genus Bulla and allied genera, belonging to the Tectibranchiata.
Webster 1913
bubble up
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verb move upwards in bubbles, as from the effect of heating; also used metaphorically
intumesce.
- Gases bubbled up from the earth
- Marx's ideas have bubbled up in many places in Latin America
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bubble-jet printer
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noun a kind of ink-jet printer
bubble jet printer; bubblejet.
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bubbling jock
Bub"bling Jock`
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(Zoöl.) The male wild turkey, the gobbler; -- so called in allusion to its notes.
Webster 1913
form bubbles
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verb become bubbly or frothy or foaming
froth; foam; effervesce; sparkle; fizz.
- The boiling soup was frothing
- The river was foaming
- Sparkling water
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hubble-bubble
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noun an oriental tobacco pipe with a long flexible tube connected to a container where the smoke is cooled by passing through water
sheesha; kalian; hubbly-bubbly; nargileh; hookah; water pipe; calean; shisha; chicha; narghile.
- a bipolar world with the hookah and Turkish coffee versus hamburgers and Coca Cola
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Hub"ble-bub`ble noun
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A tobacco pipe, so arranged that the smoke passes through water, making a bubbling noise, whence its name. In India, the bulb containing the water is often a cocoanut shell. = water pipe; hookah
Webster 1913
magnetic bubble memory
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noun a nonvolatile storage device that holds information in the form of bubbles on a thin film of magnetic silicate; no longer used in most computers
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Soap bubble
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noun a bubble formed by a thin soap film
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- a hollow iridescent globe, formed by blowing a film of soap suds from a pipe; figuratively, something attractive, but extremely unsubstantial.
This soap bubble of the metaphysicians. J. C. Shairp.