Crossword clues for bubble
bubble
- A dome-shaped covering made of transparent glass or plastic
- An impracticable and illusory idea
- A hollow globule of gas (e.g., air or carbon dioxide)
- A speculative scheme that depends on unstable factors that the planner cannot control
- Champagne feature
- Glass or plastic dome
- Canadian singer drinks drop of Buck's Fizz?
- ___ Wrap
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bubble \Bub"ble\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Bubbled; p. pr. & vb. n. Bubbling.] [Cf. D. bobbelen, Dan. boble. See Bubble, n.]
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To rise in bubbles, as liquids when boiling or agitated; to contain bubbles.
The milk that bubbled in the pail.
--Tennyson. To run with a gurgling noise, as if forming bubbles; as, a bubbling stream.
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To sing with a gurgling or warbling sound.
At mine ear Bubbled the nightingale and heeded not.
--Tennyson.
Bubble \Bub"ble\, n. [Cf. D. bobbel, Dan. boble, Sw. bubbla. Cf. Blob, n.]
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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. A small quantity of air or gas within a liquid body; as, bubbles rising in champagne or a["e]rated waters.
A globule of air, or globular vacuum, in a transparent solid; as, bubbles in window glass, or in a lens.
A small, hollow, floating bead or globe, formerly used for testing the strength of spirits.
The globule of air in the spirit tube of a level.
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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. A person deceived by an empty project; a gull. [Obs.] ``Ganny's a cheat, and I'm a bubble.''
--Prior.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 14c., perhaps from Middle Dutch bobbel (n.) and/or Middle Low German bubbeln (v.), all probably of echoic origin. Bubble bath first recorded 1949. Of financial schemes originally in South Sea Bubble (1590s), on notion of "fragile and insubstantial."
mid-15c., perhaps from bubble (n.) and/or from Middle Low German bubbeln (v.), probably of echoic origin. Related: Bubbled; bubbling.
Wiktionary
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. 3 Anything resembling a hollow sphere. 4 (context economics English) 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 (eg the http://en.wikipedi
org/wiki/South%20Sea%20Bubble). 5 (context obsolete English) Someone who has been ‘bubbled’ or fooled; a dupe. 6 (context figurative English) The emotional and/or physical atmosphere in which the subject is immersed; circumstances, ambience. v
1 (context intransitive English) To produce bubbles, to rise up in bubbles (such as in foods cooking or liquids boiling). 2 (context transitive archaic English) To cheat, delude. 3 (context intransitive Scotland and Northern England English) To cry, weep.
WordNet
n. a hollow globule of gas (e.g., air or carbon dioxide)
a speculative scheme that depends on unstable factors that the planner cannot control; "his proposal was nothing but a house of cards"; "a real estate bubble" [syn: house of cards]
an impracticable and illusory idea; "he didn't want to burst the newcomer's bubble"
a dome-shaped covering made of transparent glass or plastic
Wikipedia
Bubble or Bubbles may refer to:
Bubble is a 2005 film directed by Steven Soderbergh. It was shot on high-definition video.
It featured some unusual production aspects. In traditional terms, the movie has no script. All lines were improvised according to an outline written by screenwriter Coleman Hough, who previously teamed with Soderbergh on Full Frontal. Bubble was shot and edited by Soderbergh under the pseudonyms Peter Andrews and Mary Ann Bernard (taken from his father's given names and his mother's maiden name, respectively).
The film uses non-professional actors recruited from the Parkersburg, West Virginia / Belpre, Ohio area, where the film was shot. For example, the lead, Debbie Doebereiner, was found working the drive-through window in a Parkersburg KFC.
Bubble was released simultaneously in movie theaters and on the cable/satellite TV network HDNet Movies on January 27, 2006. The DVD was released a few days later on January 31.
It was nominated for Best Director for Steven Soderbergh at the 2007 Independent Spirit Awards.
Bubble is the first of six films Soderbergh planned to shoot and release in the same manner.
The score for the movie was composed by Robert Pollard, who lives in Ohio.
"Bubble" is the ninth single by the English electronic music band Fluke and was their only single released in 1994.
In computing, a bubble or pipeline stall is a delay in execution of an instruction in an instruction pipeline in order to resolve a hazard.
During the decoding stage, the control unit will determine if the decoded instruction reads from a register that the instruction currently in the execution stage writes to. If this condition holds, the control unit will stall the instruction by one clock cycle. It also stalls the instruction in the fetch stage, to prevent the instruction in that stage from being overwritten by the next instruction in the program.
To prevent new instructions from being fetched when an instruction in the decoding stage has been stalled, the value in the PC register and the instruction in the fetch stage are preserved to prevent changes. The values are preserved until the bubble has passed through the execution stage.
The execution stage of the pipeline must always be performing an action. A bubble is represented in the execution stage as a NOP instruction, which has no effect other than to stall the instructions being executed in the pipeline.
Usage examples of "bubble".
The scene I cannot describe--I should faint if I tried it, for there is madness in a room full of classified charnel things, with blood and lesser human debris almost ankle-deep on the slimy floor, and with hideous reptilian abnormalities sprouting, bubbling, and baking over a winking bluish-green spectre of dim flame in a far corner of black shadows.
It was filled not quite to the brim with a mass of what looked like thick red slime and it bubbled continuously as if aboil on some gigantic stove.
Suddenly, Abrim wanted nothing so much as to exit this gleaming sterile bubble and get back to his crowded, cluttered ship.
The journey took several minutes even at a sprint, through sunken tunnels and window-lined connecting bridges, up and down grilled ramps, through ponderous internal airlocks and sweltering aeroponics labs, taking this detour or that to avoid a blown bubble or failed airlock.
It breathed and blew bubbles and occasionally caressed an agate or two with its prehensile limbs.
In such an arrangement, bubbles that are close to the edges of the band miss altogether the emanations that are in the center of the band, which are shared only by bubbles that are aligned with the center.
Alemans were trying to drive them into the alkahest pits still bubbling from the First Sorcerous War.
She watched the two Amar stirring the gravel a minute more, then wandered about a large pile of rock to stand beside the hot spring, watching purple bubbles pop and pale purple mists glide across the seething water.
Upon the crest of the heap, the lump of ambergris bubbled, smoking, its sweet scent filling the air.
Each one was large and curved, containing a bubbling yellowish liquid like amniotic fluid.
It was a scene from a vision of Fuseli, and over all the rest reigned that riot of luminous amorphousness, that alien and undimensioned rainbow of cryptic poison from the well--seething, feeling, lapping, reaching, scintillating, straining, and malignly bubbling in its cosmic and unrecognizable chromaticism.
There was always deer sausage on the stove, and a gumbo full of oysters, shrimp, crabmeat, chicken, Andouille sausage would brim green bubbling.
Martin touched another control and annotations appeared, pointing out a black circle within the dark bubble and indicating its diameter, just a bit bigger than Jupiter.
Normers verified his theory of gravimagnetic rotations, and it turned out, in addition, that on planets of type C Meoli there can exist not tri- but tetraploids of silicon, and on that moon where Arder nearly did himself in there is nothing but lousy lava and bubbles the size of skyscrapers.
Eustace picked up a net and went to the vat where the artesian water bubbled.