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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.NounAnything 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."real estate bubble; dot-com bubble"
6.NounThe 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.
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.NounIn 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.NounThe cutoff point between qualifying, advancing or being invited to a tournament, or having one's competition end."bubble watch"
16.NounA quarantine environment containing multiple people or facilities isolated from the rest of society.
17.NounThe people who are in this quarantine.
18.NounEllipsis of travel bubble.
19.NounA bulb or lamp; the part of a lighting assembly that actually produces the light.
20.NounA specialized glass pipe having a sphere-shaped apparatus at one end.
21.VerbTo produce bubbles, to rise up in bubbles (such as in foods cooking or liquids boiling)."The laminate is bubbling."
22.VerbTo churn or foment, as if wishing to rise to the surface."Rage bubbled inside him."
23.VerbTo rise through a medium or system, similar to the way that bubbles rise in liquid.
24.VerbTo cover or spread with bubbles
25.VerbTo delude, dupe, or hoodwink; to cheat.
26.VerbTo cry, weep.
27.VerbTo pat a baby on the back so as to cause it to belch.
28.VerbTo cause to feel as if bubbling or churning.
29.VerbTo express in a bubbly or lively manner.
30.VerbTo form into a protruding round shape.
31.VerbTo cover with bubbles.
32.VerbTo bubble in; to mark a response on a form by filling in a circular area (‘bubble’).
33.VerbTo apply a filter bubble, as to search results.
34.VerbTo join together in a support bubble
35.VerbTo grass (report criminal activity to the authorities).