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Bubble

noun

1.

A hollow globule of gas (e.g., air or carbon dioxide).

2.

A speculative scheme that depends on unstable factors that the planner cannot control. Synonym: house of cards. "A real estate bubble"

3.

An impracticable and illusory idea.

4.

A dome-shaped covering made of transparent glass or plastic.

verb

(past & past part. bubbled; pres. part. bubbling)

1.

Form, produce, or emit bubbles.

2.

Flow in an irregular current with a bubbling noise. Synonyms: babble, burble, guggle, gurgle, ripple.

3.

Rise in bubbles or as if in bubbles.

4.

Cause to form bubbles.

5.

Expel gas from the stomach. Synonyms: belch, burp, eruct.

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"Bubble" Quotes from Famous Books

... to draw whatever amount he chose. Believing himself to be possessed of unbounded wealth, he built a superb house and laid out the grounds in splendid style, giving all sorts of expensive entertainments. At length the bank broke, the bubble burst, and the unhappy man was reduced to the extreme of penury, while numbers of unfortunate people who had invested their money ...

— A Yacht Voyage Round England • W.H.G. Kingston

... dazzled and maddened them, wiping out their disappointments and blotting out their miseries. All the furies of unmeasured imagination that had swept them off their mental balance when first they had sought the bubble fortune came again upon them anew, and in their shouting, capering frenzy they surged round the four strangers and round and over Cudlip's bar. What liquor there was to be seized was taken and swallowed before its owner could raise a protest; but ...

— Colonial Born - A tale of the Queensland bush • G. Firth Scott

... iron cylinders, provided with an agitating arrangement. This may consist of a steam injector by means of which air is made to bubble through the liquid, which produces both the required agitation and the heating, and at the same time oxidizes at least part of the sulphides; but this method of agitation causes a great waste of steam and at the same time a further dilution of the liquor. Many, therefore, prefer ...

— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia

... the trio of reds, a formidable task for one who had already been successful in three stubborn matches. It was a hero-making opportunity, but, alas! for the last of the little white company. Like many another, he made a brave dash for honor and the "bubble reputation"; the former slipped tantalizingly from his grasp, and the latter burst and all its pretty colors dissolved in thin air. Now he lay still on the sands ...

— Under the Rose • Frederic Stewart Isham

... bed. But sleep was out of the question. Her brain still kept at work, elaborating the ideas already proposed and adding still others to the plan. Why hadn't she laid more stress on the Medici? How had she contrived to overlook John Law and the South Sea Bubble, with all its attendant wigs, hooped petticoats and shoe-buckles? Then the Pine-Tree Shilling jumped to her eyes, and Virginia's use of tobacco as a currency;—possibly the entire scheme might be arranged on a purely American ...

— Under the Skylights • Henry Blake Fuller

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