Meaning of "bubble" in the English dictionary

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD BUBBLE

Probably of Scandinavian origin; compare Swedish bubbla, Danish boble, Dutch bobbel, all of imitative origin.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF BUBBLE

bubble  [ˈbʌbəl]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF BUBBLE

Bubble is a verb and can also act as a noun.

A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb bubble in English.

WHAT DOES BUBBLE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of bubble in the English dictionary

The first definition of bubble in the dictionary is a thin film of liquid forming a hollow globule around air or a gas. Other definition of bubble is a small globule of air or a gas in a liquid or a solid, as in carbonated drinks, glass, etc. Bubble is also the sound made by a bubbling liquid.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO BUBBLE

PRESENT

Present

I bubble

you bubble

he/she/it bubbles

we bubble

you bubble

they bubble

Present continuous

I am bubbling

you are bubbling

he/she/it is bubbling

we are bubbling

you are bubbling

they are bubbling

Present perfect

I have bubbled

you have bubbled

he/she/it has bubbled

we have bubbled

you have bubbled

they have bubbled

Present perfect continuous

I have been bubbling

you have been bubbling

he/she/it has been bubbling

we have been bubbling

you have been bubbling

they have been bubbling

Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past

I bubbled

you bubbled

he/she/it bubbled

we bubbled

you bubbled

they bubbled

Past continuous

I was bubbling

you were bubbling

he/she/it was bubbling

we were bubbling

you were bubbling

they were bubbling

Past perfect

I had bubbled

you had bubbled

he/she/it had bubbled

we had bubbled

you had bubbled

they had bubbled

Past perfect continuous

I had been bubbling

you had been bubbling

he/she/it had been bubbling

we had been bubbling

you had been bubbling

they had been bubbling

Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future

I will bubble

you will bubble

he/she/it will bubble

we will bubble

you will bubble

they will bubble

Future continuous

I will be bubbling

you will be bubbling

he/she/it will be bubbling

we will be bubbling

you will be bubbling

they will be bubbling

Future perfect

I will have bubbled

you will have bubbled

he/she/it will have bubbled

we will have bubbled

you will have bubbled

they will have bubbled

Future perfect continuous

I will have been bubbling

you will have been bubbling

he/she/it will have been bubbling

we will have been bubbling

you will have been bubbling

they will have been bubbling

The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional

I would bubble

you would bubble

he/she/it would bubble

we would bubble

you would bubble

they would bubble

Conditional continuous

I would be bubbling

you would be bubbling

he/she/it would be bubbling

we would be bubbling

you would be bubbling

they would be bubbling

Conditional perfect

I would have bubble

you would have bubble

he/she/it would have bubble

we would have bubble

you would have bubble

they would have bubble

Conditional perfect continuous

I would have been bubbling

you would have been bubbling

he/she/it would have been bubbling

we would have been bubbling

you would have been bubbling

they would have been bubbling

Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative

you bubble
we let´s bubble
you bubble

The imperative is used to form commands or requests.

NONFINITE VERB FORMS

Infinitive

to bubble

Past participle

bubbled

Present Participle

bubbling

Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

SYNONYMS OF «BUBBLE»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «bubble» and belong to the same grammatical category.

synonyms of bubble

agitate · air cavity · air pocket · babble · bead · blister · blob · boil · burble · churn · drop · droplet · effervesce · effervescence · fizz · foam · froth · globule · gurgle · head · lap · lather · murmur · percolate · plash · purl · ripple · seethe · simmer · splash · spume · suds · trickle · trill · vesicle

TRANSLATION OF BUBBLE

Find out the translation of bubble to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of bubble from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «bubble» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 泡沫
• Translator English - Spanish: burbuja
• English: bubble
• Translator English - Hindi: बुलबुला
• Translator English - Arabic: فُقّاعَة
• Translator English - Russian: пузырек
• Translator English - Portuguese: bolha
• Translator English - Bengali: বুদ্বুদ
• Translator English - French: bulle
• Translator English - Malay: Gelembung
• Translator English - German: Blase
• Translator English - Japanese: 泡
• Translator English - Korean: 거품
• Translator English - Javanese: Gelembung
• Translator English - Vietnamese: bong bóng
• Translator English - Tamil: குமிழி
• Translator English - Marathi: बबल
• Translator English - Turkish: kabarcık
• Translator English - Italian: bolla
• Translator English - Polish: bańka
• Translator English - Ukrainian: бульбашка
• Translator English - Romanian: bulă
• Translator English - Greek: φυσαλλίδα
• Translator English - Afrikaans: borrel
• Translator English - Swedish: bubbla
• Translator English - Norwegian: boble

10 QUOTES WITH «BUBBLE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word bubble.

1

Marc Andreessen

If we're in a bubble, it's the weirdest bubble I've ever seen, where everybody hates everything.

2

Marcus Aurelius

Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.

3

Antonio Banderas

I get caught up in my bubble of reading, writing, or music.

4

Henry Beard

You can often wash your troubles away with the right kind of bath. Throw everything you have into the tub: bubble gels, bubble oils, bubble powders, bubble gum.

5

Boris Becker

I was in the tennis bubble. I wasn't thinking about the big picture. I didn't notice what they said on television, I wasn't reading any papers. I had a coach and a manager, and they kept me in the bubble.

6

Johnny Bench

The most validating thing was when my picture was on my first bubble gum card. That was in '68 for me. I was finally on the Topps card.

7

Lindy Booth

I definitely have an alter ego that can come out and get me out of situations where I'm having social anxiety. I can take a deep breath and create a bubble so I can perform in some way.

8

Philippa Boyens

It is hard to go back into a world that has already been explored, so to speak. And the fans are very passionate about it, and you don't want to burst that bubble; you don't want to break that illusion. You want to get it right. You want it to feel familiar, but also surprising.

9

Colin Camerer

It's like simulating earthquakes: we can over and over study a bubble, crash, bubble, crash. Then we can see mathematically if there's some regular pattern and what's going on in people's brains when prices are going up and before the crash is happening.

10

David Cassidy

I found myself very lost after 'The Partridge Family,' and I lost my dad and I lost my manager, and I lived in a bubble, and it took me 15 years to get through that and a lot of psychotherapy, and I'm laughing about it now!

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BUBBLE»

Discover the use of bubble in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to bubble and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

The Filter Bubble: How the New Personalized Web Is Changing ...

Drawing on interviews with both cyber-skeptics and cyber-optimists, from the co-founder of OK Cupid, an algorithmically-driven dating website, to one of the chief visionaries of U.S. information warfare, THE FILTER BUBBLE tells the story of ...

Eli Pariser, 2011

The unbelievable bubble book

Explains how soap bubbles are formed and what can be done with them.

John Cassidy, David Stein, 1989

America's Bubble Economy: Profit When It Pops

Filled with expert analysis and straight talk, this book will show you how to turn the coming economic transformation into a once-in-a-lifetime wealth-building opportunity. Have You Noticed The Economic Bubbles Yet?

David Wiedemer, Robert Wiedemer, Cindy Spitzer, 2010

The Higher Education Bubble

America is facing a higher education bubble.

Glenn H. Reynolds, 2013

The Lawyer Bubble: A Profession in Crisis

In The Lawyer Bubble, Steven J. Harper explores how the legal profession came to this sorry state.

Steven J. Harper, 2013

The Acoustic Bubble

The first half of the book introduces and draws together acoustics, cavitation nucleation and associated fluid dynamics, to examine the free oscillations of bubbles and the resulting acoustic emissions.

T. G. Leighton, 1997

Cavitation and Bubble Dynamics

This book provides a coherent and unified treatment of the fundamental physical processes involved in bubble dynamics and the phenomenon of cavitation; applicable to topics from internal combustion engines to the performance of turbines and ...

Christopher Earls Brennen, 1995

Pop!: The Invention of Bubble Gum

Gum. It’s been around for centuries—from the ancient Greeks to the American Indians, everyone’s chewed it.

Meghan McCarthy, 2011

Bubble

Bubble is about a bubble of water, sent by God, which covered the Washington D.C. Beltway and picked up a large number of socialists who had infiltrated the Democratic Party over a long period of time.

Marvin E. Fox, 2011

Bubble Trouble

Mabel blows a bubble that captures Baby and wafts him away, resulting in a wild chase that involves the whole neighborhood.

Margaret Mahy, 2008

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BUBBLE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term bubble is used in the context of the following news items.

There Is No Tech Bubble. Still, Be Worried.

People making the case for a bubble often focus on unicorn startups (those with a valuation of greater than $1 billion) such as Uber, which is ... «Bloomberg View, Jul 15»

Stock bubble in China is bursting: Stephen Roach

"The bubble is bursting" and predicting the bottom is anyone's guess, Roach told CNBC's "Squawk Box" in an interview. He added, however ... «CNBC, Jul 15»

Detroit Tigers' David Price blows monster bubble (VIDEO)

The Tigers' ace is an accomplished bubble-gum blower and from what we ... Price showed off his bubble-blowing skills in the dugout during ... «FOXSports.com, Jul 15»

The Mad Scramble to Get Off the Republican Debate Bubble

Top-tier teams like Duke and Kentucky and Michigan State don't have to worry about the bubble; they're comfortably in the tournament. It's the ... «Bloomberg, Jul 15»

Stranded in Paris: Can COP pop the carbon bubble?

Yet, whether these assets will become stranded or actually will lead to carbon bubble, the risk increasingly has garnered attention from news ... «GreenBiz, Jul 15»

Why no one can reliably predict a tech bubble

A bubble occurs when the price of assets rise to unsustainable levels that far exceed their true value. The result is a market correction in which ... «San Francisco Chronicle, Jul 15»

Outside The Tech Bubble: Product Quality Lessons For Startups …

There are two ways people apply the word “bubble” to tech: one is to the hyper-valuations in privately held tech startups, especially ... «Forbes, Jul 15»

What Bubble? Forum Partners Seeks Property Deals in China

Some global real estate investors and hedge funds steer clear of China, believing the nation is about to collapse as its property bubble bursts. «Institutional Investor, Jul 15»

Melbourne immune to property bubble

Housing bubble speculators aren't looking at the whole picture in Melbourne, where land is far removed from such conditions, according to ... «Smart Property Investment, Jul 15»

Biotech 'Bubble-Watch' in Overdrive

"Bubble-spotting" has become a favorite pastime on Wall Street, with fund managers, analysts, journalists, and even the Federal Reserve ... «Schaeffers Research, Jul 15»