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1.nounA spherically contained volume of air or other gas, especially one made from soapy liquid.
2.nounA small spherical cavity in a solid material."bubbles in window glass, or in a lens"
3.noun(by extension) Anything resembling a hollow sphere.
4.nounAnything lacking firmness or solidity; a cheat or fraud; an empty project.
5.nounA 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."dot-com bubble"
6.nounThe emotional and/or physical atmosphere in which the subject is immersed.
7.nounAn officer's station in a prison dormitory, affording views on all sides.
8.nounSomeone who has been ‘bubbled’ or fooled; a dupe.
9.nounA small, hollow, floating bead or globe, formerly used for testing the strength of spirits.
10.nounThe globule of air in the chamber of a spirit level.
11.nounA laugh."Are you having a bubble?!"
12.nounA Greek.
13.nounAny of the small magnetized areas that make up bubble memory.
14.nounThe point in a poker tournament when the last player without a prize loses all their chips and leaves the game, leaving only players that are going to win prizes. (e.g., if the last remaining 9 players win prizes, then the point when the 10th player leaves the tournament)"Many players tend to play timidly (not play many hands) around the bubble, to keep their chips and last longer in the game."
15.nounA group of people who are in quarantine together.
16.verbTo produce bubbles, to rise up in bubbles (such as in foods cooking or liquids boiling).
17.verbTo churn or foment, as if wishing to rise to the surface."Rage bubbled inside him."
18.verbTo rise through a medium or system, similar to the way that bubbles rise in liquid.
19.verbTo cheat, delude.
20.verbTo cry, weep.
21.verbTo pat a baby on the back so as to cause it to belch.
22.verbTo cause to feel as if bubbling or churning.
23.verbTo express in a bubbly or lively manner.
24.verbTo form into a protruding round shape.
25.verbTo cover with bubbles.
26.verbTo bubble in; to mark a response on a form by filling in a circular area (‘bubble’).